Discovering that Keith Jarrett could play the guitar was a little like finding out that Bob Dylan could speak coherently. Wait, what? You May Also Like: Keith Jarrett Returned to His Strengths on ‘Testament Paris/London’ Noah Haidu – ‘Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett’ (2021)

Coming from a very prominent jazz and classical pianist who famously disparaged modern, plugged-in instruments at the height of the fusion era, this is quite a revelation. You May Also Like: Keith Jarrett Returned to His Strengths on ‘Testament Paris/London’ Why Keith Jarrett’s Reunion With Charlie Haden on ‘Jasmine’ WasRead More

It’s hot, it’s humid, it’s…almost July? Well, mid-year has once again snuck up on me. Time to recap the (fantastic) musical half-year that has apparently flown by. You May Also Like: Matthew Shipp Trio – ‘World Construct’ (2022) Matthew Shipp Trio – ‘New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz’ (2024)

The combined talents of Jarrett, Peacock, and DeJohnette extend far beyond technical facility. They’ve played together for so long now that to look for their line between improvisation and straight play is to miss the point. You May Also Like: Keith Jarrett Returned to His Strengths on ‘Testament Paris/London’ NoahRead More

For most musicians and singers alike, mining those great American standards can only get you so far before it begins to sound tired and rote. For thirty years running, the greatest living jazz trio is still mining that gold vein while keeping it fresh and vital. You May Also Like:Read More

By the time Paul Motian had passed away in November of 2011, he had established a legacy that reaches far beyond a couple of historical evenings at the Village Vanguard in late June of 1961. But becoming known as something much more than Bill Evans’ drummer within arguably jazz’s greatestRead More

It starts off with some relatively straightforward arpeggios, tensely shifting back and forth between two chords. And then…a kind of beautiful mayhem. You May Also Like: Bill Frisell – Music IS (2018) Bill Evans – Time Remembered, The Life & Music of Bill Evans (2016, DVD)

Keith Jarrett famously declared he was leaving behind contemporary electric music not long after leaving Miles Davis’ touring band in 1972 but that self-imposed restriction didn’t stop him from making some of the most unique, creative, and yes, even modern records by a jazz musician during the 70s. You MayRead More

Always talented, Pakistani-born guitarist Rez Abbasi is a skilled musician who’s really come into his own recently as not merely an instrumental whiz, but as a complete artist. You May Also Like: Rez Abbasi & Junction – Behind The Vibration (2016) Naya Baaz [Rez Abbasi + Josh Feinberg] – ‘Charm’Read More

With such a focus here on Keith Jarrett’s sublime Standards trio that has been going on for thirty years, now, along with some monumental solo piano records of the 1970s, it can almost be forgiven if we had overlooked Jarrett’s American Quartet You May Also Like: Keith Jarrett Returned toRead More