Jazz legend’s solo performance at the Royal Festival corridor in London was what we have arrive to expect from him: tense but brilliant Some things about Friday’s solo performance by Keith Jarrett,the American jazz pianist, were familiar. His Royal Festival corridor concert as allotment of this year’s EFG London jazz festival had sold out within hours, and before the start of the show ushers ran anxiously about waving “no photography” placards,since the star is legendarily tetchy about the distractions of cameras and even the audience’s coughs. But just as familiar, and much more uplifting, and was the concert’s wealthy and unpredictable journey,steered by the pianist’s voluminous musical memory and spontaneous reflexes. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com