Piano Genius and NEA Jazz Master Keith Jarrett Asks, What is Music?

[@m-l7127]

I cannot express accurately how deeply moving Keith's music is. It's water music to me. It's always current and still moves me as it did in 80' when I first got hold of the Koln album. I live to it and painted to it. It's soul

[@JazzVideoGuy]

one of the musical creations of all time, no doubt about that

[@michaelbrickley2443]

Keith is sublime. As great as anyone and perhaps greater. Saw him at an ECM show in Lincoln Center. Solo in ‘77 I think

[@michaelbrickley2443]

@@JazzVideoGuy the story of the album and the effect on people is one of those things that is proof there is more to life than material…there is God

[@LukeSchneiderEWI]

Keith is a NATIONAL TREASURE !!! 🎹🎵👍

[@keithbutler2222]

This is the man who got me into improvising back in 1986 when I listened to the Koln concert. It took me from the classical road I was following and into expressing myself as a musician. I've never looked back

[@beautardyartist]

Its so great that KJ stuff is starting to become more available on social media. For a very long time he was shunned and snobbed. The jazz guys thought he was too theatrical (they were just jealous) and the pop guys thought he was just noisy and played too many notes. His willingness to dive head first into pure improvisation is something to behold. I'm glad people are starting to see how special that really was.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

I have loved Keith's music since the first time I heard his solo on Forest Flower in 1967.

[@beautardyartist]

@@JazzVideoGuy Wow, thats great. I saw him in 1976 in the south of France - I was a teenager and he did a solo show that blew my mind.

[@michaelbrickley2443]

Amongst jazz critics, I’ve never heard anyone criticize. Of course, there are always critics but I like what one musician said, if you can’t do better and there is critiquing and there is complaint

[@spacecitysprockets]

@@michaelbrickley2443 Hmm, I've heard plenty of criticism leveled at him from Jazz musicians. "Many jazz critics, and especially the younger ones, agreed. But not all of Jarrett’s peers were impressed: pianist Horace Silver, in a DownBeat “blindfold test” (a feature in which established musicians give their reactions to recordings played for them, without being told who the performers are), did not like the Paul Bley solo piano tune that was played for him, thinking it was Keith Jarrett.22 And in an interview, pianist Oscar Peterson refused to place Jarrett among the top three young jazz pianists currently on the scene. Peterson strongly preferred Herbie Hancock over Jarrett.23 I believe it was pianist Joe Zawinul, a key member of Miles Davis’s early electric bands, a leading proponent of jazz fusion, and who personally and professionally lived a highly miscegenated life, who thought Jarrett’s anti-electronic music position was reactionary. A younger pianist, Anthony Davis, himself highly regarded at the time, found Jarrett imitative and superficial." ~~~ www.amacad.org/publication/keith-jarrett-miscegenation-european-sensibility-jazz-1970s

[@michaelbrickley2443]

@@spacecitysprockets true that musicians can be a little tempestuous at times. Louis Armstrong called bebop chinese chopsticks if I recall and Wynton had some interesting things to say about fusion, I think. Louis and Diz eventually became friends. As a Christian, I’ve seen a tendency for people to be a little rough about doctrinal differences. All I know is I loved Keiths music from day one.

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

I saw Keith, Peacock and DeJohnette four times and each time it was amazing. I can safely say I have every album he ever made!

[@benjaminwauchope1307]

You are a legend

[@AdrianMurillo-dk7ue]

My life was transformed when I first heard his solo Koln Concert album in 74? 75? He validated where I was headed, that just sitting at the piano and flowing was cool, valid. It was how I prayed and the piano was my altar.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Keith Jarrett has touched millions of people with his music. What a gift.

[@williammagtibay]

Same with me

[@ianpritchard6375]

Fascinating ... He says you can't describe music with words and yet the whole speech is word jazz. Casting aside the sheet music at the start. Presenting themes that start out as one thing and morph into other themes..revisiting the initial theme from time to time. Remembering to include certain riffs (about his mum and dad). Speaking as he plays. Great stuff.

[@michaelhayes690]

Beautiful! He is sooo right. Nobody who copied, imitated, or became a disciple contributed any music. But, every student wants to sign up for that. None of the guys he played with here ever did that. Total originals and the results are music in the present tense. Thanks!

[@alejandrosolano7421]

Thank you, Keith. For everything. I love your heart and your music. I've been listening your short piece 'Spirits 15' again and again today, and it completely moves me. Tears of joy. It makes me feel as if the world is, after all, beautiful. It makes me feel God and life. Thank you, Keith. It pains me that I didn't had the chance to see you perform live. It pains me what you and your body have had to endure in the past years. I hope the love with which I write this random youtube comment somehow reaches you, man.

[@Studio-62]

The public library also greatly shaped my appreciation for all kinds of music. I was fortunate to have one of the greatest music collections I’ve ever heard in my local branch. Thousands of records in all styles. I took out records 15 at a time, week after week, for years.

[@CompanyMold]

Thank you, Jazz Video Guy. You’ve contributed a lot to the world of jazz in this day and age. It’s appreciated!

[@DaveFrank]

Bully bully! JVG rules!

[@yurib7067]

@@DaveFrank Dave Fraaaank! ❤️

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Appreciate the kind words.

[@twangbarfly]

I'll second that - one of the best jazz channels going - absolutely top-drawer content. A huge thank you!!!!

[@m-l7127]

Keith is a national/world treasure.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

for sure

[@TheJohnnyBE]

The first time I heard the late John Coates, Jr (1938-2017), another Child Piano Phenom play, was on the Jazz Alive show on NPR around 1980, Live at The Deer Head Inn. Being a huge Jarrett fan at the time, I heard Keith's improvisational style in John's performance. Some years later, I mentioned this to John at the bar at The Deer Head Inn while he was on a break. He told me that Keith used to played Drums with him at the Inn and that Keith, in an interview in a Japanese Jazz Magazine, said that he had been influenced by John's playing. If you are not familiar with John's music, check him out. I'm sure you will Blown Away.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Yes, I know about the influence of John Coates on Keith Jarrett.

[@sarafeeme9423]

Most videos have only thumbs up to press. Why does this video have only thumbs down? I truly respect Keith Jarrett. Thanks for sharing.

[@thewordofgord]

Thanks for this. Been following Jarrett for decades and never heard him speak! This video of the Jarrett/Redmon group is also quite rare. Gratefulness abounds.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

That was always a great festival

[@bkeith616]

Same here: began listening in high school in the 70s; this is the first time I've heard him speak at length. Did hear (by video) a few short words from him, though, decades ago. While in concert, during a quieter passage, someone took a photo of him, and a flash bulb flared momentarily. He stopped playing. Without rising from the bench, he just sat with his head lowered, in Keith Jarret fashion. After a long-ish, deathly silence, lasting for something like 10 or 15 seconds, what he said was, "You can't photograph the music." Not another word. That was it. ( I distinctly remember that he looked to me like he was hurt ... and saddened, not angry.) Anyway, he collected himself for, maybe 10 seconds more ... then began playing again.

[@Jeraestone]

Thats a Great recollection and one that completely aligns itself with Jarret's Feelings for his music..Nina Simone was Similar in Her reserve for those Not" Listening " ~ However Nina did not Suffer interruptions Gladly and Would Chastise the Talkers and Loud Drinkers at her Venue 🕊️

[@DaveFrank]

poor Keith( Can you imagine what he is capable of (impossible to imagine) and not being able to play? Inconceivable.

[@Darrylizer1]

His interview with Rick Beato is heartbreaking.

[@DaveFrank]

@@Darrylizer1 agreed

[@desoconnor7445]

Thanks Keith for delivering aspects of freedom in music creation.🙏🙏🏿🎩✨🦄

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Yes!

[@rockyhill9965]

After you know some standard songs well enough and have heard many of the great singers sing them over and over, you can then appreciate the *genius* approach that Keith brings to his Standards Trio recordings. As you follow any given song as you've previously known, Kieth takes you on a breathtaking melodic and harmonic journey. And, relying on Kieth's astoundingly good piano technique and his ear, you are always returned to the song itself and full respect to the song is always returned to. Not to diminish the support from Jack and Gary.

[@staccatoestudiodegrabacion188]

Thanks master

[@amaurylopez5558]

Great honest speech and wonderful music… thanks 👏🏼👏🏼👍🎼

[@arthurroschbooksandmusic7700]

I loved the talk! He's self deprecating and funny. He spoke truth.

[@jimranallo686]

Quite the remarkable man and master musician...and his words are entirely true....music is there to grab out the air... cheers!

[@Жан.джазмен]

Keith Jarret is the music

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Exactly!

[@JamesHunterRoss]

This was great! I didn't see the Dewey Redmon sax work mentioned, but his playing just blew my mind; meaningful tone, sensitive phrasing, wow...

[@JazzVideoGuy]

I was so lucky to see Keith's Quartet at Slug's in the early 70s, before Lee Morgan was shot. Dewey was sooooo good.

[@Darrylizer1]

LOVE Keith Jarrett. I've been trying to get his entire discography on vinyl and I've found quite a bit in excellent shape used and new and also I've been buying his stuff on iTunes so I have it in my car. He's a genius for sure.

[@kevinjonesmusic]

Genius! My opinion is it’s a spirit. You either have it and invite it in to use it or you have it and ignore it. I think a “Master” is only a Master when they can realize and accept they are still a “Student”. No musician should ever look down on another musician or their journey. They are entitled to explore the musical spirit within them.

[@anaisan009]

Un regalo del cosmos ❤ después de tantos años. Me descubrió otra "musica" hace 40 años . Ahora me devuelve la sonrisa😊❤ el "cuento con final feliz" ⭐️🌟⭐️

[@petergerler417]

I relate to Keith’s “play something bouncy” story. Once, at a firemen’s party, I was playing with a five-piece trad jazz group. A guy walks up and says, “Can’t you play something we can dance to?” We got into a shuffle beat with “Kansas City,” definitely grooving. Afterwards the same guy comes up, says, “When are you gonna play something we can dance to???”

[@56davidwright]

Reminds me of a venue owner who screamed in my ear , while I was playing, " l didn't employ you to play this shit!" I stood back from him, politely, and yelled," What kind of shit DID you employ me to play?"

[@6fretless]

@@56davidwright Fantastic response! Respect🙏🏽💖😎

[@michaelcorenzwit8118]

I was a young professional musician and played at all kinds of events including several wedding receptions. One night we played at a reception for a Polish wedding. All they wanted to hear was polkas, which I find very boring and repetitive. Their all basically the same rhythm and chords played over and over and over again. I never played at another Polish wedding again.

[@ScottlandShaffner0423]

Great words/deep music. What a beautiful Artist/Man of Earth/Cosmos. Thanks as always.

[@sheskimusic]

Love this. One of Jazz’s greatest students.

[@tedl7538]

Great comments from Keith, thanks much for posting!!!

[@adamglasser-t1s]

Thanks so much for posting this Jazz Video Guy! Amazing also to hear a live version of 'Le Mistral' 🙏

[@Jackgrahamphotograph]

this is amazing--I teach photography (run photo workshops) and I show this to all my attendees as it applies to all "Art". Jarrett is not only a musical genius, but a great thinker. Thanks for sharing JG

[@bluesque9687]

Photography is not art.

[@nowalls8713]

@@bluesque9687 You know, just because you can speak your mind doesn't mean you should.

[@bluesque9687]

@@nowalls8713 nonsense 😆 Read your comment yourself! Does it make any sense?

[@twangbarfly]

@@bluesque9687 It makes a lot more sense than your vacuous comment.

[@bluesque9687]

@@twangbarfly Photography is definitely not fine art and it is not performance art in itself. Photography can convey a certain aesthetic or a sentiment; however, photography captures a moment, unlike painting that creates them on the canvas (and painting can even transcend the dimension of time!). In a painting or a piece of music or in a sculpture the artist can play with the form-- syncopate or chisel anyhow they like; however, a photographer can do nothing of such sort!

[@hefewiseman]

hes great! love him.talented insightful..

[@JoseFuentes-fn3dl]

Musicians play to their strengths. What works for one person may not work for someone else. You have to find your own way. That is the secret to great playing.

[@gustavofortunato4779]

The best jazz trio since last 25 years...Jarret Peackok De Johnette...amazing musicians....

[@Waldvogel45]

I was lucky enough to see Keith with Miles in Toronto,and solo in Frankfurt. When I am in Lausanne I can feel his presence. And Dewey proves the saying, like father like son. (Josh).Check him out on Pat Matheney's 80/81 album.

[@stefanhall3219]

I was lucky enough to meet Duane Allman in Atlanta and we became friends. When I asked him how he played the Blues and answered pretty much the same way as Keith. Music comes from Heart - not the Head!

[@emiliolopezify]

Fascinating. 🔝😊🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@freejazzbone]

thanks for sharing,

[@eddievega1100]

Wow ! Good to see he’s up and about .

[@kyokushinfighter78]

He was fired from a trio. OMG... Keith Jarrett...... a jazz master.... He is like one of the biggest name in Jazz. I adore him....

[@downpatmusic]

First 1:00 so true. it took decades to realize the meaning of music and I am glad I stuck with it in the meantime. My meaning is: Write until you love every note. Then find a way to play it, in which you can't love it anymore. The main focus is the you. Write/play until YOU love every note. And then repeat this over and over.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Excellent response!

[@lefujyou]

I hope Keith is doing good!!❤........thanks......Lefuj

[@markburlingamemusicalexplo1456]

I hadn’t seen this video previously. Much gratitude to you for sharing. As a practitioner and listener of “music” for many years, much of what he said resonates with me.

[@brucewhitcomb8700]

Hadn't heard this in years. Great harmonic motion and grooves. Takes me back several decades.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@marcelobecerra5083]

Grande maestro Keith Jarrett 🎹🎶👏👏👏

[@babaaladeolamina4810]

Wow.. Wonderful. 🎶♥️🎶

[@justice4all.0757]

Can't love this video enough. Thank you Jazz Video Guy. You remind me of my brother, who used the pseudonym Jazzman, and whom together with, I learned to love this music so much.

[@markusgerlachartisthandpan8866]

❤Thx for the music!

[@MrBabaziro]

Splendid!

[@zeuslightning192]

Great insight.

[@YT2024Hayward]

I was privileged to see KJ at Jazz Jamboree in 1985 ( Warsaw, Poland)

[@bunyaminkasap]

thank you so much for sharing this!

[@renakmans3521]

Interesting how Keith says most everyone sounded like Coltrane after Coltrane. Dewey is his own man, that’s probably why Keith wanted him and Garbarek, two of the most underrated heaviest players.

[@sedaghatreza1184]

No one can sound like Coltrane - such a truism

[@finzer4000]

that groove my god

[@pongofury8110]

Ok KZbin algorithm, you got me. Another subscriber for Jazz Video Guy. Thanks!

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Welcome aboard

[@georgestevens1502]

In 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, one of the scenes depicts Gould in a diner for the breakfast rush just taking in all the sounds around him. He found music in everyday occurrences. I think it helped him activate his senses when performing or recording.

[@BOOOZB]

...crazy enoug to feel it ...and do it

[@lemurwrangler4963]

love

[@lambertfooks7358]

Wonderful. Don’t forget to practice y’all

[@bobsabin]

Thank you!

[@AndrewStopfords]

This is beautiful ❤

[@ignaciogutierrezbarriuso6425]

Saludos desde Caracas 🇻🇪 Venezuela. Suscrito yá

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Hola Caracas

[@andrewturnbull5897]

I’ve used my definition of music with my students for decades. Music is sound organized to move human emotions. My name is Andrew Turnbull.

[@62maybiesjr]

Instant favorite!

[@petermongayahogsholm3884]

Incredible!!

[@Sofo64]

”Music is an art of sound in time which expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rythm,melody and harmony”-Andres Segovia

[@diannaclark4252]

Interestingly, music is interpreted differently by everyone. It's why humans are. And why we feel similar but still different and are attracted by groups by the music that moves us in the "right way". I love Jazz. I play it 24/7 because it's better than drugs to get me high.

[@diannaclark4252]

To be factual, the Jazz I "play", I purchased online and have hours of playlists. I have energizing jazz, sleep jazz, and smooth jazz to soothe the savage beast in my breast.

[@pipervibe3427]

Thanks!

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Welcome!

[@ChrisJCarter]

Absolutely fantastic! Love it.

[@pedroeustache5511]

With all respect to super genius maestro Keith Jarret: MUSIC IS TRANSCENDING THROUGH SOUND! Musical Phenomenology caters to that experience, as it is the discipline that searches to objectivise the laws that regulate the evolution of sound in function of our consciousness. my "two cents".... Blessings to all!!

[@ninidesbois]

Merci à vous. La qualité du son est incroyable.

[@urielstud]

Music is the space between the notes.

[@joseppi4cinqua]

I got excited for new Keith Jarrett content only to find this is an old speech from 2014 :(

[@somberlight]

Music is evocation. Context varies, be it feeling, groove, awe or just a distant memory but there always is something that makes the flood of notes different. If it did something, it was music

[@fabianmartin7126]

this is priceless

[@trowmofi]

😌😌 Out cold! 🤯 - appreciation sir...wheeeew...

[@samlewis7878]

So brilliant and well spoken. Yes- music is a mysterious art - the secret is not defining it definitively.

[@ChristianTappa70]

My hero… ❤️🎶

[@vegettoblue8705]

Music Is an analog way to augment reality

[@truBador2]

"...I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc … Expression has never been an inherent property of music … It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention - in short, an aspect unconsciously or by force of habit, we have come to confuse with its essential being." - Igor Stravinsky

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Igor lives!

[@truthpopup]

Music is art directed at the sense of hearing.

[@leegollin4417]

Correct. It's nothing more or less.

[@antontabliashvili5226]

The correct way to describe it

[@jkljkl1945]

Then what is art

[@leegollin4417]

@@jkljkl1945 human expression.

[@truthpopup]

@@jkljkl1945 Creative expression.

[@bluegoose555]

thanks for posting...wow ..Dewey Redman eh ?.. this band sounds very... direct

[@JazzVideoGuy]

yes, Mr. Redman is in the house on this one

[@derek5168]

He's right there are no masters in music really only students because a master has a teacher

[@lawrencepitchko4120]

One might say that music is the corporeal realization of the inherent intelligence in vibrational energy. People say that music is a language (a common cultural teaching) but a language is an interface and that has no reality. The description is not the reality (also a common mistake). Music is its own meaning and not an interface. It is not a language. One can lie or defend oneself in language but not in music. So although difficult to describe, one might say that music is the sculpting of vibrational energy so as one or more might witness truth, symmetry and beauty in a given unique moment of space-time. The fact that more than one might experience music in a given moment is very important as the sum in 3D is always greater than the parts and this is especially so for the human's experience of joy and bliss. If there is truth there then it must come from the heart as the human would channel from consciousness and co-create great music in 3D. Hope this helps.

[@raleighkathman214]

Look at this guy trying to express music in words.

[@sedaghatreza1184]

Brilliant comment

[@nige3801]

Thanks for this, love it

[@jonnybeck6723]

Tell Keith HE is music... ...after hearing him blow on Forest Flower I was never the same...

[@rubenter-sahakyan845]

Музыка - лекарство для души.

[@oeaoo]

Точно.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

me, too

[@leegollin4417]

I always ask my students this. I know the answer too. Anyone who negates styles or sounds Keith included misses something. Music is simply the art of organized sound.

[@leegollin4417]

Also, the idea that music is hard work, self reflection or anything much more, is grandiose. It's the mating call and the wind and some of us just do it naturally. The rest study and talk about it. Most artists/musicians/actors, even the very talented are pretty clueless about it and will tell you everything EXCEPT what you need to know, because they really don't understand that talent is inate understanding, not the hard work they did.

[@absentmindstate]

@@leegollin4417definitely, although the process of putting in deep effort can help one reach that point of innate understanding.

[@Edison73100]

2 cool

[@gustavofortunato4779]

Just...a genius....

[@markfischer3626]

In my family when I was growing up the definition of music was organized noise. Still works for me. Practically everything most people call music created in the last few decades seems to me to be not well organized at all. That's why I hate it and avoid it at every opportunity.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

'It's the orgamisation of energy fields...without....killing thme...'

[@TheBassD]

Keith talks exactly how he plays. Just like Bill Frisell

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Good observation

[@twangbarfly]

@@JazzVideoGuy Yeah - it's bang on!

[@MartinBianchiBianchi]

❤❤❤❤❤😊❤❤❤❤

[@yitwailu2]

Loved the chiropractor joke. 😉

[@galenvanbrok]

At the end of Carl Sagan’s novel Contact it’s discovered that god has left his signature in the form of a pattern in the digits of pi. I believe god has left not just his signature within music but an entire mysterious book we haven’t yet fully opened. Music at its core seems to consist of pitched sounds contrasting with each other over time (melody), or simultaneously (harmony), that instills in listeners a common emotional response. Play a major then a minor third and you can be sure that most ppl recognise the 2nd chord as sadder than the first. What evolutionary advantage did the human brain achieve by having this ability to emotionally react to pitch intervals. What possible evolutionary advantage is conferred by our ability to appreciate music.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

VERY interesting perspective, thanks for sharing

[@JXter_]

There is no innate feeling we get from major or minor quality, those feelings have been instilled in us over a long history of music. Why we consider major to be happy and minor to be sad is completely arbitrary - in fact, there are plenty of songs in minor that sound happy and vice versa. There are plenty of songs that are in major that do not sound happy _or_ sad. We are not hard-wired to associate chord quality with emotion, we have merely learned it from our own self-indoctrination.

[@JungleYT]

*Was hoping this was recent... How is his health today? Asking for a Friend*

[@bluegoose555]

get pretty primal there at 23:20.. sort of like a pack of hyenas.. excited for a feast.. totally amazing sounds...what an astounding 12 minutes !!!

[@rustynail766]

Wonderful video! Could that be from the 1975 Philharmonic/Avery Fisher Hall concert? Thelonious Monk appeared afterwards.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

No, it's from Berlin. I was at the concert you mention, Monk's last.