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- Summary: The latest full-length release of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett features his last concert in France recorded in 2016 at the Auditorium de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux before he experienced two strokes in 2018 that has left him unable to perform.
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- Record Label: ECM
- Genre(s): Jazz, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Free Improvisation, Improvisation
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Oct 3, 2022These severely abstract inventions require so much brain power and digital dexterity that Jarrett often groans and growls like a tennis player returning a difficult shot. Fortunately, in amongst them are reflective lyrical numbers which radiate a moving sense of solitude, in which you can sense him relax.
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Oct 3, 2022In the end, everything from the softest improvised ballads to the most exuberantly hard-stomping blues draw grateful accolades – the sound of an audience’s thanks for a one-off music that belonged only to their presence with Jarrett, in that space, on that unique evening.
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Oct 3, 2022The Bordeaux Concert is not for the Jarrett beginner, but for seasoned fans of his many solo recordings, that are, after all, responsible for a sizeable portion of his legendary reputation. The dialogue he engages in with the piano here challenges its own assertions with an unassuming, even reverential authority. This is not only masterful, it soulful, interrogatory, and virtuosic.
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Oct 3, 2022Every Jarrett solo performance holds its own magical appeal and Bordeaux certainly holds its own with any of the others in his storied catalog.