Radiance

Artist: Keith Jarrett
Label: Ecm Records
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 602498698181
EAN: 0602498698181
ASIN: B0007YH4EO

Release Date: 2005-05-03

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Tracks:

Radiance (Part 1)
Radiance (Part 2)
Radiance (Part 3)
Radiance (Part 4)
Radiance (Part 5)
Radiance (Part 6)
Radiance (Part 7)
Radiance (Part 8)
Radiance (Part 9)

Tracks:

Radiance (Part 10)
Radiance (Part 11)
Radiance (Part 12)
Radiance (Part 13)
Radiance (Part 14)
Radiance (Part 15)
Radiance (Part 16)
Radiance (Part 17)

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Customer Reviews:

Deeply stirring.......2006-09-19

Radiance is a precious, intense, thougtful, suprising, and stirring composition that highlights Keith's brilliance and leaves me with a sense of profound gratitude that we've been given the chance to experience growth beyond the what he's shared with us in the past. It's taken more than 6 months for me to write this review because I haven't (and still don't) feel that I can muster any words to adequately capture the feeling of this music. There are layers and layers and layers of meaning in the music which are best appreciated through several sessions of deep concentrated attention over many months. This music doesn't reveal itself superficially. I've never been a fan of the "abstract" style which characterizes many of the songs on the release and much of Keith's work. Instead, I prefer a melody where I can perceive the flow ... but that said, there are enough magically haunting passages here to move this to the top of my most cherished songs. In my personal opinion, this is the greatest work since Koln, which for me is the gold standard of Keith's work. If anything can surpass Koln in my experience, it would be songs 6, 7, and 8 on Disc 2 ... but especially song 8. That song has an overpowering spirit. What this CD lacks, which Koln has in my view, is a sense of cohesion. There are many beautiful songs in the set but I don't feel they are part of a family where Koln to me feels like something that flows from start to finish. This is why I give a 4 star rating.

Hey. We're your audience. Please care........2006-09-10

In the late 70s, I had a conversation with a fellow Keith Jarrett fan, but this guy was hardcore. I mentioned some obnoxious thing Jarrett had said in an interview and this fan said, "Oh, yeah, well, I try not to pay any attention to anything he SAYS."

I'm going to have to go with the appraisal of this collection as being largely self-indulgent. I think it is flawed in concept. We all know that, for the most part, Jarrett did some preparation for his best solo concerts and improvised on themes. This idea of sitting down with nothing and just playing: That might be an interesting exercise for the musician, but it come close to being an insult to a paying audience (attending a concert or buying a recording.) I've played "Radiance" three or four times and there's not much here that grabs me. It would have been better if it was half as long. I'll eventually pull out the best of these pieces and burn a single CD.

A look into the future.......2006-05-15

"Radiance" is a look into the future of Jarrett's musical style and direction. While he is as unpredictable as it gets in jazz, it's clear that the era of the long format improvisation is over - for now. Jarrett, either because of age, infirmity or a need to explore, has opted to shorter pieces of melodic and abstract suites that are emotionally and audibly linked by the listener into one greater piece.

After such a long career of thematic peaks and discoveries, you'd think there wasn't much left uncovered. That's the beauty of this new era: each phrase or passage adds something to one's already vast vocabulary. After "Koln," "Vienna," "Sun Bear" and all the rest, it's like watching a venerable athlete experimenting in ways that keep challenging the audience. Yeah, I'd like an encore of "Paris Concert," but somehow I'd feel cheated were that sort of thing ever released. (Actually, near the end of "Radiance" there is an eerie recall of those sparkling notes of "October 17.")

This is the way Jarrett's going. I heard him at the Carnegie Hall solo concert last September, doing very similar stuff. His attitude is, "This is what I'm doing. Who cares what anyone else thinks?" Definitely not your average musician.

Radiant!.......2006-03-05

It's always a pleasure to hear Keith Jarret's improvisations. Sometimes you have the impression that pieces of Scriabin, Prokofiev or Chopin are crossing the mind of the pianist, inspiring his way through the keyboard.
Radiance is really radiant, as long as you don't expect nice and singable melodies. Just climates. Very inspired climates.

What Do We Mean By Mean?.......2006-02-23

That old Monty Python line comes to mind when I listen to Radiance. I have been a Jarrett fan since the Koln days and had eagerly anticipated (and feared)this release. I put it away after one listen and then went back after several months. No change, unfortunately.

In recent years Mr. Jarrett has taken to exploring the far fringes of diatonic, chromatic and every other ic of harmony. I'm not sure to what end but it seems more for self gratification than to offer his fans and jazz fans something a bit more palatible than Radiance. Being challenged by jazz music is worthwhile and listeners of Cecil Taylor and Andrew Hill can certainly feel rewarded by music that is both eclectic and appealing. But on Radiance, Jarrett finds combinations of silence and atonality that seem to speak only to him and the "art critics" who will forever praise everything he issues. And while I can't stomach the retro jazz genre in general, I wish that Keith Jarrett would get a bit nostalgic for Koln.

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