Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His The Koeln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the remarkable reception it has received from musicians and lay-listeners alike. Since the album's 1975 release, it has sold over three million copies: a remarkable achievement for any jazz record, but an unprecedented feat for a two-disc set of solo piano performances featuring no well-known songs. In Keith Jarrett's The Koeln Concert, author Peter Elsdon seeks to uncover what it is about this recording, about Keith Jarrett's performance, that elicits such success. Recognizing The Koeln Concert as a multi-faceted text, Elsdon engages with it musically, culturally, aesthetically, and historically in order to understand the concert and album as a means through which Jarrett articulated his own cultural and musical outlook, and establish himself as a serious artist. Through these explorations of the concert as text, of the recording and of the live performance, Keith Jarrett's The Koeln Concert fills a major hole in jazz scholarship, and is essential reading for jazz scholars and musicians alike, as well as Keith Jarrett's many fans.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-13
9780199779260
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138834902
Product Key Features
Book Title
Keith Jarrett's the Koln Concert
Author
Peter Elsdon
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music, Musical Instruments
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
208mm
Item Width
141mm
Item Weight
254g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peter Elsdon
Series Title
Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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