Extractions: Composer and pianist Keith Jarrett has won Sweden's Polar music prize, an award previously won by Bob Dylan and songwriter Burt Bacharach. The prize, given out by awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, was presented to Jarrett on Tuesday. The awards were set up in 1989 by Stig Anderson, a member of the academy and the former producer of Swedish pop band Abba. It has previously been won by acts ranging from Bob Dylan to violinist Isaac Stern, pop star Elton John and songwriter Burt Bacharach. Jarrett played with jazz legend Miles Davis Last year it was won by South African singer Miriam Makeba and Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Jarrett, 57, was honoured for "his ability to effortlessly cross boundaries in the world of music," the award committee said. They said he was a "pianist, composer and master of the field of improvisational music".
Extractions: BBC NEWS News Front Page World UK England ... Talking Point Entertainment Contents: Film Music TV and Radio Showbiz ... Reviews Wednesday, 29 January, 2003, 14:30 GMT Composer and pianist Keith Jarrett has won Sweden's Polar music prize, an award previously won by Bob Dylan and songwriter Burt Bacharach. The prize, given out by awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, was presented to Jarrett on Tuesday. The awards were set up in 1989 by Stig Anderson, a member of the academy and the former producer of Swedish pop band Abba. It has previously been won by acts ranging from Bob Dylan to violinist Isaac Stern, pop star Elton John and songwriter Burt Bacharach. Last year it was won by South African singer Miriam Makeba and Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Jarrett, 57, was honoured for "his ability to effortlessly cross boundaries in the world of music," the award committee said. They said he was a "pianist, composer and master of the field of improvisational music". Jarrett began his career in the 1960s and worked with a variety of jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Jan Garbarek and Billy Cobham.
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Extractions: Home Submit Music for Review Advertise on JazzReview.com Contact Us Site Menu: Click Here For Menu Jazz Reviews Jazz Photography Jazz Interviews Feature Stories Book Reviews Audio Reviews Home Newsletter Subscribe CD Giveaway CD of the Week Archives JazzReview.com Email Review Archives Contact Us Site Search: Featured Artist of the Week: Keith Jarrett Artist Bio: The celebrated pianist Keith Jarrett first established his reputation in the popular Charles Lloyd group (Dream Weaver) where he proved himself to be a dazzlingly gifted player. A period with Miles Davis in the early '70s (Live Evil and At Fillmore) did not lead- as with pianists Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock- to the subsequent formation of a jazz-rock outfit. Jarrett's career has been remarkably diverse. Born Allentown, Pennsylvania, on May 8, 1945, Jarrett learned piano from age 3, exploring improvisation and composition as early as 7. At 15, he took formal lessons and by 16 was presenting program of his own work even touring with Freddie Waring's Pennsylvanians. In '63 he spent an eventful year on a scholarship to Berklee School of Music and built his early reputation on having being kicked out of Berklee. After working around in Boston, in '65 Jarrett moved to New York becoming an Art Blakey Jazz Messenger (for three months) and working with Roland Kirk. In February '66, Charles Lloyd found Jarrett playing as a cocktail-bar pianist and, over the next three years Jarrett toured Europe six times with Lloyd, covering eighteen countries including a trip to Moscow (Charles Lloyd in the Soviet Union).
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Extractions: Reviewed: Jan. 2002 With the possible exception of John Coltranes incendiary take on Rodgers and Hammersteins "My Favorite Things", the concept of free-jazz interpretations of standards is a rare commodity, but one that seems to be picking up steam in recent years. Veterans of the downtown New York scene like tenor saxophonist David S. Ware and pianist Matthew Shipp have weighed in with explorations of classics Ware takes on the schmaltzy "The Way We Were" on 1998s Go See The World , while Shipp has tried out variations on "Greensleeves", "Take The A-Train", and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" with decidedly mixed results. As it stands, though, no other group embodies that link from past to future better than the long-standing trio of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Each of the three cut their chops in the burgeoning free jazz scene of the late sixties, but have spent the last several years taking apart and reconstructing the massive body of work that preceded them.
Extractions: STOCKHOLM, Sweden American pianist Keith Jarrett was named the winner Tuesday of the $117,000 Polar Music Prize for his ability "to effortlessly cross boundaries in the world of music." The award was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, through a donation to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Jarrett was the first musician to win the award solo. It has been split between pop artists and classical musicians. The academy cited Jarrett's fusion of musical genres, from jazz and pop to gospel and classical music, as well as his improvisational skills. "Through a series of brilliant solo performances and recordings that demonstrate his utterly spontaneous creativity, Keith Jarrett has simultaneously lifted piano improvisation as an art form to new, unimaginable heights," award committee chairman Aake Holmquist said at a news conference in Stockholm. Jarrett wasn't at the news conference, but is expected to travel to Sweden to collect the award May 12 from King Carl XVI Gustaf, Holmquist said.
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Extractions: Pianist Keith Jarrett goes it alone on The Melody at Night, With You . No stranger to solo recitals, here Jarrett tackles familiar standards along with a few traditional pieces and as we come to expect, the performances are near flawless. Part of the beauty and majesty of it all lies within Jarretts penchant for understatement and ebullience while possessing an astounding sense of depth and range. Throughout this recording, Jarrett has seemingly decided to forego any semblance of dramatics as he vividly sets the scenario for the listener along with the partner of his or her choice as they may sit in front of a soft burning fire under dim lights. On The Melody at Night, With You
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Extractions: This 2001 release marks a departure from the Trios standards-based format and in pianist, Keith Jarretts words: I mentioned to Jack (DeJohnette) and Gary (Peacock), during a tour in Europe, that perhaps we would scrap the format the whole idea of having to use any material. Recorded during two evenings at Londons Royal Festival Hall, this oft-celebrated band swerves a bit left of center during these truly exhilarating performances, as the artists reinvestigate previously applied methodologies. Sure, these musicians are no strangers to the ways or implementations of improvisation. However, the band frequently improvises within a structured approach, largely due to the choice of predefined material, yet here, this outfit excels and perhaps provide a clinic on the art of pursuing meaningful and altogether impressionable three-way dialogue. Needless to state, its been over two decades since Jarrett, Paul Motian (drums), Charlie Haden (bass) and Dewey Redman (sax) rendered programs consisting of open-ended interplay, and Ornette Coleman- style harmolodics amid a deeply personalized mode of attack. Whereas, Jack DeJohnettes 70s and 80s group led albums for ECM Records and a recent recording starring trumpeter, Wadada Leo Smith bespeaks free or avant-garde inclinations. Otherwise, bassist, Gary Peacocks recent outings with pianists, Marilyn Crispell and Paul Bley find the artist engaging in buoyant rhythmic parameters and quietly expansive frameworks.
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