This concert is amazing beyond words. There is a lot of beautiful music around, yet there are very few works that take you to another dimension, and the Köln Concert is certainly one of them. It feels like Keith squeezed all music humans ever created in one hour, the ultimate musical elevator speech for aliens performed to unimaginable perfection. And the story behind it adds to the amazement...
Great review, thanks. If I had to bring only one record with me to a desert island, it would be "The Köln Concert". One of my sons - at that time around 16 - had just started to play the piano. One evening I asked him to take place in the couch, I put on side one (the "A"-piece), turned up the stereo and I left the room. Half an hour later he showed up - and said only one sentence: "Thank you, Dad" ❤
Thanks. That’s funny because it’s maybe the best known story about Jarrett - that his most famous concert was almost a disaster. What gets me is that he’d travelled seven hours through the Alps by car that morning…
Keith Jarrett influencing John Paul Jones ?? … Hell yeah. I, too, listened to the 1975 bootlegs, but the Seattle version (March 21 I think) is my favourite of them all. The Vancouver 1975 versions are also good, can't go wrong with any 1975 version of No Quarter in my opinion. He obviously was channelling his inner Jarrett there. And the rest of the band let him get away with it. The jamming between Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones at Seattle is really inspired. Just about any keyboard player alive back then must have had their worlds shook to the core by Keith Jarrett. Just the other day, I was showering and the sound of drops falling sounded like him playing for me. Köln, Bremen, Lausanne, and parts of the Japan concerts are to me the absolute pinnacle of music. You are the only person I have ever come across that made that connection between JPJ and KJ. Thanks and Cheers 🍺
@@stefanconradsson too much time listening to Zeppelin boots. I spent so much time digging into that site “The Year of Led Zeppelin my wife accused me of actually being the site’s author. (I’m not!)
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews Thanks for reminding me of that site, I haven't been there in ten years, probably. I take it you've been a regular on TTD and Dime then? There's been some interesting stuff trickling out the past two, three years, even some previously unseen videos that are now on YT. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for this KJ video with the comment on JPJ. I think Keith Jarrett is bonkers good. I don't even have enough adjectives to describe him. Cheers man 🍺
@@stefanconradsson my obsessive Zep bootleg days are behind me to an extent. I agree with you about those West Coast soundboards from 75. Amazing. And I am sure some keen characters have put up more recent matrix efforts which are probably the bomb, but I haven’t dipped in in years, in a serious way anyhow.
Been listening to music since I was a kid (Stones, JJ Cale, Pink Floyd and later Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Joy Division etc.). Always liked bluesy tunes and am researching blues (Robert Johnson, Hownlin Wolf, BB King, JLH etc.). Next...jazz or jazzy stuff. Miles Davis (not my thing), Getz/Gilberto (nice bossa jazz) and bumped into Keith Jarret... A bit of an aquired taste (work in progress 😅). But when at the right time it clicks! So far Paris and Köln are my Jarrets favorites.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews Yes and is the best way to spend money. BTW I misspelled Keith Jarrett, for those on the tip toes 😉 Music i life, for for me it is.
Man I love ECM records from the 70s and 80s. Stand outs for me are Jarrett's Survivor Suite, Towner's Solstice, and Abercrombie's Gateway. There are sooo many other great records though.
Indeed, I really enjoyed this review. Keith Jarrett is truly a musical genius! I don’t think he can fit into a genre. He’s his own genre especially his solo piano work. His solo piano work at times is magical and or frightening. Thank you for this review!
Hey there, thank you so much for your video. I have just one question to ask. What u mean with the last part where u say that is a headphone special? Thank you
I to go back to the video to remember what I said :-). I suppose I mean that this is a recording full of little moments and subtleties perhaps best enjoyed with the isolation of headphones. But don’t infer too much from that… I rarely use headphones!
Hi ....like many of your viewers I scan the list looking for records I either have or am interested in ..... do you do requests I wonder or do you have a pre-planned list you're working you way through ? ......requests/suggestions might be an idea ( just a request/suggestion ) Jim Glasgow,
Hi Jim - nice to hear from someone from Glasgow, very fond of it as my sister used to live there for many years. I have a list I suppose in that I am working my way through the better part of 2000 records, of which the largest part are jazz and then rock. But nothing is cast in stone. If I have it I’ll consider it, but it might not be right away. Let me know what you had in mind?
This concert is amazing beyond words. There is a lot of beautiful music around, yet there are very few works that take you to another dimension, and the Köln Concert is certainly one of them. It feels like Keith squeezed all music humans ever created in one hour, the ultimate musical elevator speech for aliens performed to unimaginable perfection. And the story behind it adds to the amazement...
Great review, thanks. If I had to bring only one record with me to a desert island, it would be "The Köln Concert".
One of my sons - at that time around 16 - had just started to play the piano. One evening I asked him to take place in the couch, I put on side one (the "A"-piece), turned up the stereo and I left the room. Half an hour later he showed up - and said only one sentence: "Thank you, Dad" ❤
Brilliant. Love that story. I feel the same way about my dad and Getz/Gilberto.
I have been falling asleep to this recording every night for years.
The Köln Concert - In a single concert : Incredible intensity and depth - a breathtaking inner journey, life-shaping to this day...
Great review, I think this is the only one I've seen in UA-cam to give a fully detailed context of the concert.
Thanks. That’s funny because it’s maybe the best known story about Jarrett - that his most famous concert was almost a disaster. What gets me is that he’d travelled seven hours through the Alps by car that morning…
Keith Jarrett influencing John Paul Jones ?? … Hell yeah. I, too, listened to the 1975 bootlegs, but the Seattle version (March 21 I think) is my favourite of them all. The Vancouver 1975 versions are also good, can't go wrong with any 1975 version of No Quarter in my opinion. He obviously was channelling his inner Jarrett there. And the rest of the band let him get away with it. The jamming between Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones at Seattle is really inspired.
Just about any keyboard player alive back then must have had their worlds shook to the core by Keith Jarrett. Just the other day, I was showering and the sound of drops falling sounded like him playing for me. Köln, Bremen, Lausanne, and parts of the Japan concerts are to me the absolute pinnacle of music.
You are the only person I have ever come across that made that connection between JPJ and KJ.
Thanks and Cheers 🍺
@@stefanconradsson too much time listening to Zeppelin boots. I spent so much time digging into that site “The Year of Led Zeppelin my wife accused me of actually being the site’s author. (I’m not!)
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews Thanks for reminding me of that site, I haven't been there in ten years, probably. I take it you've been a regular on TTD and Dime then? There's been some interesting stuff trickling out the past two, three years, even some previously unseen videos that are now on YT.
Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for this KJ video with the comment on JPJ. I think Keith Jarrett is bonkers good. I don't even have enough adjectives to describe him.
Cheers man 🍺
@@stefanconradsson my obsessive Zep bootleg days are behind me to an extent. I agree with you about those West Coast soundboards from 75. Amazing. And I am sure some keen characters have put up more recent matrix efforts which are probably the bomb, but I haven’t dipped in in years, in a serious way anyhow.
Been listening to music since I was a kid (Stones, JJ Cale, Pink Floyd and later Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Joy Division etc.).
Always liked bluesy tunes and am researching blues (Robert Johnson, Hownlin Wolf, BB King, JLH etc.).
Next...jazz or jazzy stuff. Miles Davis (not my thing), Getz/Gilberto (nice bossa jazz) and bumped into Keith Jarret...
A bit of an aquired taste (work in progress 😅).
But when at the right time it clicks!
So far Paris and Köln are my Jarrets favorites.
It's a never ending journey.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews Yes and is the best way to spend money.
BTW I misspelled Keith Jarrett, for those on the tip toes 😉
Music i life, for for me it is.
Man I love ECM records from the 70s and 80s. Stand outs for me are Jarrett's Survivor Suite, Towner's Solstice, and Abercrombie's Gateway. There are sooo many other great records though.
Indeed… and still going strong with e.g. Vijay Iyer.
Indeed, I really enjoyed this review. Keith Jarrett is truly a musical genius!
I don’t think he can fit into a genre. He’s his own genre especially his solo piano work. His solo piano work at times is magical and or frightening. Thank you for this review!
Yes - he will switch “genres” several times in one piece. Very much a one-off artist.
Hey there, thank you so much for your video.
I have just one question to ask. What u mean with the last part where u say that is a headphone special?
Thank you
I to go back to the video to remember what I said :-). I suppose I mean that this is a recording full of little moments and subtleties perhaps best enjoyed with the isolation of headphones. But don’t infer too much from that… I rarely use headphones!
Hi ....like many of your viewers I scan the list looking for records I either have or am interested in ..... do you do requests I wonder or do you have a pre-planned list you're working you way through ? ......requests/suggestions might be an idea ( just a request/suggestion )
Jim
Glasgow,
Hi Jim - nice to hear from someone from Glasgow, very fond of it as my sister used to live there for many years.
I have a list I suppose in that I am working my way through the better part of 2000 records, of which the largest part are jazz and then rock. But nothing is cast in stone. If I have it I’ll consider it, but it might not be right away. Let me know what you had in mind?
... And bad food ...
Haha! yes.