Name: La Fenice
Brand: Keith Jarrett

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6765853

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Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-19

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602567658535

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Artist

Keith Jarrett

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Jazz

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This double album, long anticipated, presents Keith Jarrett’s concert at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, from July 2006. The setting – one of Italy’s most famous classical venues – may evoke some parallels with La Scala, the pianist’s much-loved 1995 recording, but each of Jarrett’s solo performances is its own world, his protean creativity continually bringing new forms to light. 

La Fenice (The Phoenix) finds him channelling the flow of inspiration into a suite of eight spontaneously created pieces referencing everything from the blues to atonality. From the first flurry of notes, it is a consistently captivating journey. Between Part VI and Part VII, Jarrett surprisingly but very touchingly segues into The Sun Whose Rays, from Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera The Mikado. Encores are the traditional tune My Wild Irish Rose (previously recorded by Jarrett on The Melody At Night With You), the timeless standard Stella By Starlight, which the trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette often played (see for instance the albums Standards Live and Yesterdays).

The concert ends with a tender version of Keith’s tune Blossom, first heard on the Belonging album with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen back in 1974. La Fenice could be considered the culmination point of a series of solo concerts that began the previous September with the The Carnegie Hall Concert. Reviewing that performance, Fred Kaplan of The Absolute Sound wrote: “His concert pieces, all pure improvisations, are models of economy, themes stated, explored, varied on, departed from, returned to, done – and gripping from start to finish. The encores were similarly taut – and lyrical and gorgeous.”

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