A complete Jarrett solo concert on DVD
Includes selections heard on the best selling “Radiance” CD, and more than one hour of previously unreleased music
150th solo concert in Japan
Elegantly filmed bv Kaname Kawachi
Jarrett is playing solo (and trio) concerts in Europe in summer and autumn, providing additional opportunities for press focus, as well as on-site sales
Packaging: 6 sided-Digipack-DVD size format
The great improvising pianist’s first ECM DVD release documents his 150th performance in Japan. This complete Keith Jarrett solo concert from 2002 includes the ‘Tokyo’ selections from the acclaimed “Radiance” album plus more than one hour of previously unreleased material.
There is nothing like a Keith Jarrett solo concert. Now it is possible to watch as well as hear the great jazzman not “merely” improvising but sculpting form in the moment. Director Kanama Kawachi has made an elegant film that captures the process live at Tokyo’s beautiful Metropolitan Festival Hall, an outstanding example of modern Japanese architecture. The film’s emphasis is on the music and includes extensive close-up concert footage.
The rapt audience inspires the performer to new heights. In a statement Jarrett wrote for the 2002 tour he said: “The Japanese public has always welcomed my music with an open mind and heart. It’s an honour to feel this respect for my work. I haven’t played 150 concerts in any geographic location as contained as Japan, yet I always feel as though I have a big, open workshop for the music here. Thank you for listening.”
Jarrett’s evening-length improvisation is built up in this case from ‘episodes’, self-contained pieces of music that add up to a larger form. The moods are many. At the concert’s end he plays three standards – the Irish traditional tune “Danny Boy”, “Old Man River”, and “Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me”, the latter associated with Art Tatum and Count Basie, among others.
