VERY excited for this show tonight.
Mr. Jarrett did not disappoint tonight, and played no less than 4 encores. It was a packed house, and he was very talkative and in good spirits. He has such control over the piano.
My 18 year old self would be pretty impressed and surprised to learn that I could hear Keith Jarrett live at Carnegie Hall (for free!) in 2012.
Oh man, just got tickets to see Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall in January.
Now the Köln Concert is on loop in my head.
So excited.
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I ♥ Ben Allison, and am very excited that Carnegie Hall has a video series leading up to his February Carnegie Hall debut.
You know, people ask me what I’m going to do now that I’m 90. I say I’m going to wait to be 91.
Jazz quiz
- Me: Can you guess the sax player we hear with Billie Holiday right now? The clues are tenor sax, played with Count Basie, rhymes with "Pester Pung."
- CR: Lester Mung?
- Me: No. But Lester is right.
- CR: I've never heard of this name. Lester Sung? Hung? Lung? Mung?? Tongue?
- Me: No.
- CR: .............Young?!
- Me: Yes!
These battles between “high” and “low” art, between tonality and atonality, between the heart and the mind, between uptown and downtown seem to be over. This is cause for celebration! It suggests a more pluralistic, all-embracing future for classical music.
Why is Kurt Elling looking at us and motioning for us to turn it down?
I woke up with this in my head this morning. I haven’t listened to it in ages, but must have dusted it up in my subconscious by talking about Ben Allison in a meeting yesterday.
Forget the Arcade Fire: The biggest upset of the 2011 Grammy Awards, held Sunday night, was when jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding won for Best New Artist…The Recording Academy had never given this honor to a jazz artist before.
If you haven’t already, download her album from Amazon for only $5.99.
