Radiance

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Radiance
Template: Infobox music album / maintenance / type undetectedKeith Jarrett music album

Publication
(s)

May 2, 2005

admission

October 27th and 30th, 2002

Label (s) Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM)

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

17th

running time

2:19:41

occupation Keith Jarrett

production

Manfred Eicher

chronology
The Out-of-Towners
(2004) 		Radiance The Carnegie Hall Concert
(2006)
Keith Jarrett (2003)
On October 27, 2002, Keith Jarrett played at the Osaka Festival Hall

Radiance is a jazz album by the American pianist Keith Jarrett , released in 2005 on ECM Records .

The album

The album contains recordings of two solo concerts by the pianist, which were recorded on October 27, 2002 at the Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka and on October 30, 2002 at the Metropolitan Festival Hall, Tokyo . The album has seventeen tracks in total, spread over 2 CDs. The first 13 tracks reproduce the complete solo concert in Osaka, the last 4 tracks are from the solo concert in Tokyo. At the two concerts “Keith Jarrett, as he points out in his remarks, aimed for a completely different form than in his earlier concerts. While the arcs there sometimes extended to more than an hour, he improvised in 'Radiance' ... in shorter sections. The longest takes just over 13 minutes, the shortest one and a half. In their order they combine to form a loosely assembled suite. "

There have been many attempts to put the musical content of the album into words. Probably the most apt description was provided by Wolfgang Sandner in his Jarrett biography: “Radiance ... initially develops an irritatingly abstract sound language with free harmonic progressions, hardly a fixed point of motif and dramatic climaxes. After a few minutes, the glass bead game is over, and the powerful sound spaces that are known from Jarrett open up. In terms of its density, its rigorous pianistic execution and its diversity, the whole recording seems more like a compendium of contemporary piano playing than most earlier recordings. Who works of Debussy wants to hear and Scriabin, have never composed the Debussy and Scriabin, who in Cecil Taylor's staccato cascade has been missing the melodic core of who regrets that Bill Evans has already died and Lennie Tristano only a mambo and a Requiem on Charlie Parker wrote who would like to hear how to decline a triad through all keys, who believes that Prokofiev's mighty piano tone can still be improved, who would like to know what expression is still possible on the piano, who wants the lyrical jazz Tone as much as the drive of swing , if you want to go into a trance through the repetition rituals of a left-handed riff , over which the never-ebbing flood of minimalist sound changes pours - if you want all this and maybe more, you will find it in Radiance, that is also a compendium of Jarrett's cosmos. "

Radiance is the artist's first solo improvisation album in seven years since the recording of his concert at La Scala in Milan on February 13, 1995, which was released on the album “ La Scala ” (ECM, 1997). Keith Jarrett suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome ( myalgic encephalomyelitis ) in the mid-1990s and had to do without any concert activity for two to three years. Only with the solo album “ The Melody at Night, with You ” (1998, ECM), recorded in his private music studio in 1998, did he get back to his audience. It was not until 1999 that he appeared again in public, together with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, his standards trio. The albums “Whisper Not” (ECM, 2000), “Inside Out” (ECM, 2001), “Always Let Me Go” (ECM, 2002), “Yesterdays” (ECM, 2009), “ The Out-of ” testify to this -Towners "(ECM, 2004) and" Up For It "(ECM, 2003). And it was not until autumn 1999 that Keith Jarrett dared to perform solo concerts again and gave two concerts in Japan. It took another three years before he took on a new form with his concerts in Osaka and Tokyo in 2002, and another two and a half years before ECM Records released the album "Radiance" shortly before his 60th birthday.

The concert in Tokyo on October 30, 2002 is also Keith Jarrett's 150th concert in Japan. The Japanese music label Videoarts Music has released the video "Keith Jarrett - Tokyo Solo 2002: The 150th Concert In Japan" from this concert.

After Radiance, it took another four years until the artist's next album with solo improvisations. In 2006 ECM released the album "The Carnegie Hall Concert," which Keith Jarrett had given on September 26, 2005 at Carnegie Hall.

The contributors

The musician and his instrument

  • Keith Jarrett - piano

The production staff

  • Sascha Kleis - design
  • Martin Pearson - recording technology
  • Yoshihiro Suzuki - assistant
  • Peter Neusser - cover photo
  • Junichi Hirayama - photos of the booklet
  • Manfred Eicher - producer

The playlist

  1. "Radiance, Part 1" - 12:18
  2. "Radiance, Part 2" - 8:53
  3. "Radiance, Part 3" - 5:58
  4. "Radiance, Part 4" - 1:33
  5. "Radiance, Part 5" - 10:58
  6. "Radiance, Part 6" - 8:00
  7. "Radiance, Part 7" - 9:51
  8. "Radiance, Part 8" - 5:25
  9. "Radiance, Part 9" - 6:11
  10. "Radiance, Part 10" - 13:55
  11. "Radiance, Part 11" - 1:40
  12. "Radiance, Part 12" - 7:06
  13. "Radiance, Part 13" - 5:58
  14. "Radiance, Part 14" - 14:04
  15. "Radiance, Part 15" - 10:03
  16. "Radiance, Part 16" - 3:23
  17. "Radiance, Part 17" - 14:12
All compositions are by Keith Jarrett.

The reception

The reception of the album in the German-speaking media is almost consistently positive. Manfred Papst , for example, writes in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Sunday: “Jarrett's latest live recordings, made in Japan in 2002 ... are a surprise. This time we don't hear an endless band of associations, but 17 shorter, clearly delimited pieces of 1 to 14 minutes in length, the spectrum of which ranges from inventions in the manner of modern serious music to song-like forms to ragtime, bebop and gospel groove. The intensity is high, the virtuosity stupendous. ”And Konrad Heidkamp asks in Die Zeit :“ What remains to be said, after more than 20 solo concerts on CD, after 100 records, according to a catalog raisonné, from Bach to Shostakovich, from Basin Street Blues to free improvisation, from Charles Lloyd to Jan Garbarek ? ... Radiance can be heard as a late encore, a terrific two-hour encore. Inspired, released from self-imposed pressure, the musician devotes himself to the core. Then, when everything has been said, heard and loved, then those moments come that arise by themselves, almost incidentally, seemingly unintentional in their beauty. "Some Kulturnews finds critical words:" As good and beautiful as Jarrett plays, be very happy with this music probably only simpler minds on both sides of the rift that separates jazz and classical music. The legacy of Schumann, Grieg, Orff & Co. is stretched to 140 minutes. And what they thoughtfully expressed in comparatively short pieces suddenly inflates into piano symphonies, which, compared to advanced jazz improvisations, usually step on the spot harmonically and rhythmically, measured against the excellent jazz musician Jarrett, replace the rhythm section mostly with bitless ostinati . Jazz dentures for romantically inclined classical listeners. "

The international media only react positively. In the review at Allmusic by Thom Jurek, the album was given 4.5 out of 5 stars with the reasoning: “Its course is moving and extremely enchanting and marks a new phase of his solo concerts, which every open-minded listener who is interested in improvised music, Will generate a lot of interest. ”Also in the review of John Kelman for All About Jazz , the album was praised and received 4.5 out of 5 stars. The explanation says: “Radiance is not just a return to the old form; it is already a classic of solo improvisation, which ranks among Jarrett's strongest works. ”The Penguin Guide to Jazz even awarded 4 out of 4 stars.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see album Radiance in the catalog of ECM Records. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b see background information on the album Radiance on ECM Records. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Sandner: Keith Jarrett. A biography . Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-644-11731-0 .
  4. ↑ a b c d see the Keith Jarrett catalog at jazzdisco.org. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b see press reactions for the album Radiance at ECM Records. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ see information about the album at amazon.de. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ see review of the Radiance album at allmusic.com. Retrieved January 27, 2017 : "His process is immediate, poignant, and utterly engaging throughout and marks a new phase in his solo recordings that will spur great interest in any open-minded listener interested in improvisational music."
  8. ↑ see review of the album at allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved January 27, 2017 : “Radiance is not just a return to form; It's an instant classic of solo improvisation that is destined to rank highly among Jarrett's strongest work. "
  9. ^ Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 9th edition. 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0 , pp. 771 .

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