Monday, July 02, 2007
Coming soon from ECM: Keith Jarrett - Rants.
Featuring the all-new Montreal July 07 rant Part I: "Everybody with a ..f..fucking camera, put it on the floor if you want any more music, otherwise we're fine walking off. Someone has to stop technology's march of...ignorance and...lobotomising..there.is.no.reason.to.have.a.photo.of.us"
and Part II: "If i know French newspapers... and i do, the headline tomorrow will be 'Keith Jarrett says No Fucking Photography, it won't have anything to do with music or anything to do with what we played. It might have something to do with what we wore, because visual media's everything now, so cut the damn thing out. You still have years to live, without your camera."
And the famous Chicago Feb 07 harangue, previously released here
The embarassing Vienna Nov 04: "I will not sit down until you stand up. You, yes, the guy videotaping me. Do me a favour and forget the home souvenir. I know you've paid to come here but I pay in my own way. Please"
And the thought-provoking London July 03: "The problem with music today is that the double-bass is recorded so loud on CD that people can't hear it unamplified anymore, but when we play live we have to turn it up and then it distorts everything else. If people could only just listen"
Special Bonus Tracks
The notorious London 1989: *Audience cough*, he raises his hands off the keyboard in mid-solo, *applause*, silence.... "Now I've finished"
The infamous Paris 2006: http://skittlesmaze.blogspot.com/2006/11/jarretts-regime-of-phlegmy-fear-jazz.html
Note the blogger and many of his readers' desire to have KJ perform perfectly whilst according to their standards of behaviour, though to my knowledge none of them have performed to his standards of musicianship
Next month: Keith Jarrett - Grunts, a collection of the best groans, moans, squeals, screams and swoons from the master himself. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll come in your pants - all things you'll hear in these recordings. Piano edited out for clarity. Limited Edition Aphex Twin remix due Fall '07.
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Featuring the all-new Montreal July 07 rant Part I: "Everybody with a ..f..fucking camera, put it on the floor if you want any more music, otherwise we're fine walking off. Someone has to stop technology's march of...ignorance and...lobotomising..there.is.no.reason.to.have.a.photo.of.us"
and Part II: "If i know French newspapers... and i do, the headline tomorrow will be 'Keith Jarrett says No Fucking Photography, it won't have anything to do with music or anything to do with what we played. It might have something to do with what we wore, because visual media's everything now, so cut the damn thing out. You still have years to live, without your camera."
And the famous Chicago Feb 07 harangue, previously released here
The embarassing Vienna Nov 04: "I will not sit down until you stand up. You, yes, the guy videotaping me. Do me a favour and forget the home souvenir. I know you've paid to come here but I pay in my own way. Please"
And the thought-provoking London July 03: "The problem with music today is that the double-bass is recorded so loud on CD that people can't hear it unamplified anymore, but when we play live we have to turn it up and then it distorts everything else. If people could only just listen"
Special Bonus Tracks
The notorious London 1989: *Audience cough*, he raises his hands off the keyboard in mid-solo, *applause*, silence.... "Now I've finished"
The infamous Paris 2006: http://skittlesmaze.blogspot.com/2006/11/jarretts-regime-of-phlegmy-fear-jazz.html
Note the blogger and many of his readers' desire to have KJ perform perfectly whilst according to their standards of behaviour, though to my knowledge none of them have performed to his standards of musicianship
Next month: Keith Jarrett - Grunts, a collection of the best groans, moans, squeals, screams and swoons from the master himself. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll come in your pants - all things you'll hear in these recordings. Piano edited out for clarity. Limited Edition Aphex Twin remix due Fall '07.
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Comments:
I googled what Keith jarrett said at the montreal jazz fest to see if he actually knew french newspaper as well as he thought (apparently not because i saw no article) but i truly love this blog post. you are the man. this is coming from a legit keith jarrett fan. i love him and his douchebaggery
While I very much appreciate Jarretts music I had a very diappointing experience seing him live for the first time yesterday at the Perugia/Umbria Jazz festival. What the h*** is wrong with that guy?
Without saying ANY friendly word like good evening or something he came on stage and ranted to the audience:
No fucking cameras... and so on (went on for around 5 minutes). He explained that they reserved the right to stop playing when somebody would take a picture especially using flash..... with a very agressive and unfriendly tone.
Nice intro I must say. :-(
Then they started playing and one could feel that everbody in the audience was tense and it was hard to enjoy the first tunes.
After the concert they got standing ovations so they came back for an encore. Once they were on stage two flashes were lighting and he immediately stepped to the micro and said:
OK, that was it you wont get an encore and went off the stage and that was it.
I have never seen a musician being so un-empathetic about his audience. The rants at the beginning and the end of the concert was the only communication between him and the audience. "Normal" musicians enjoy having an audience but with him I am not sure.
Olaf
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Without saying ANY friendly word like good evening or something he came on stage and ranted to the audience:
No fucking cameras... and so on (went on for around 5 minutes). He explained that they reserved the right to stop playing when somebody would take a picture especially using flash..... with a very agressive and unfriendly tone.
Nice intro I must say. :-(
Then they started playing and one could feel that everbody in the audience was tense and it was hard to enjoy the first tunes.
After the concert they got standing ovations so they came back for an encore. Once they were on stage two flashes were lighting and he immediately stepped to the micro and said:
OK, that was it you wont get an encore and went off the stage and that was it.
I have never seen a musician being so un-empathetic about his audience. The rants at the beginning and the end of the concert was the only communication between him and the audience. "Normal" musicians enjoy having an audience but with him I am not sure.
Olaf
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