Keith Jarrett: I started playing as a classical pianist, the way all so-called legitimate kids playing the piano start. I was a “crossover” artist when I made my first jazz album. Now I am living in both worlds, but I keep them separate. When I am an improviser, its what I do. When I play Mozart, I don´t improvise… Playing other people´s music is a relief but what it isn´t is a protection. When we are improvising, you can play anything and you can make it work somehow, but in a written piece you can only play those notes and that´s a heavy restriction. When I did the Shostakovich recording the concerts that I did solo (including the Vienna Concert) were affected not so much in the music but in my use of the technique I had needed to do the Shostakovich. And Mozart has helped tremendously in the trio, playing ballads.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:26:12 +0000
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