gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) (03/21/91)
In article <1991Mar20.135211.22785@cbnewsl.att.com> wjh@cbnewsl.att.com (william.j.hery) writes: >But none of what I have heard rates the accolades you heaped upon it. >Can you describe the music for us? Even better, can you compare it to >the famous Bremen-Lausanne and Koln concert recordings? Is there >really some new breakthrough since then (as opposed to the 10 lp/6 cd >"Sun Bear" recordings which just have a week's worth of his ruminations)? The most recent look at what Jarrett's been doing lately is the ECM disc "The Paris Concert.", from a couple of years ago. While I'm sure not likely to wax as ah....rapturously about KJ's recent solo performances, I do think that the time he's spent messing about with the clavichord ["Book of Ways" on ECM] and playing Bach [WTC Book I is out, Book II is on the ECM spring release list] has rewired his playing in ways that I find preferable to the recordings you're using as standards. I actually bought a copy of the Paris Concert, and enjoy it. -- I am so lonely for the twentieth century,/for the deeply felt, obscene graffiti/of armed men and the beautiful bridges/that make them so small and carry them/into the hearts of cities written like words/across nothing,/the dense void history became in my beautiful century/gtaylor/608-828-3385