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Keith Jarrett Solo Piano Discography

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Facing You - Keith Jarrett

1971; studio recording

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7.5

Solo Concerts - Bremen/Lausanne - Keith Jarrett

1973; recorded in Bremen and Lausanne these concerts were originally released as a three-LP set

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8.8

The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett

1975; one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time

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Staircase - Keith Jarrett

1976; studio recording

7.7

Sun Bear Concerts: Piano Solo - Keith Jarrett

1976; five complete Japanese concert recordings, originally released as a ten-LP set

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7.7

Concerts: Bregenz - Keith Jarrett

1981; originally released as a three-LP set, only the Bregenz concert is included on the single CD release. The München concert (more than an hour and a half long) has not yet been reissued on CD, apart from a ten minute section on the :rarum collection which was compiled by Jarrett himself. According to the ECM website however, a reissue is in the works.

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Book of Ways - Keith Jarrett

1986; studio recording of clavichord solos

Dark Intervals - Keith Jarrett

1988; recorded in Japan, it is the first of Jarrett's live solo albums to feature shorter, more concise improvised pieces rather than the more familiar extended improvisations of his earlier solo albums

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8.6

Paris Concert - Keith Jarrett

1990; featuring a 38 minute improvisation, a composition (The Wind) and a blues.

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The Vienna Concert: Recorded at the Vienna State Opera

The Vienna Concert: Recorded at the Vienna State Opera... - Keith Jarrett

1991; which Jarrett has stated is his finest solo concert recording

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8.4

La Scala - Keith Jarrett

1997; which was the first ever non classical concert in Milan's La Scala Opera House

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8.7

The Melody at Night, With You - Keith Jarrett

1999; studio recording

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6.3

The Carnegie Hall Concert [2 CD] - Keith Jarrett

2006; recorded live in September 2005 at Carnegie Hall in New York. Jarrett's first solo concert in North America in more than ten years.

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Jarrett's first album for ECM in 1971, was a solo piano date recorded in the studio, and he has continued to record solo piano albums in the studio intermittently throughout his career. These studio albums are modestly successful entries in the Jarrett catalog. In 1973 Jarrett also began playing totally improvised solo concerts, and it is the voluminous recordings of these concerts that have made him one of the best-selling jazz artists in history.

Jarrett's 100th solo performance in Japan was captured on video at Suntory Hall Tokyo on April 14 1987 and released the same year. The release was titled Solo Tribute. Another video recording titled Last Solo was released in 1987 from a live solo concert at Kan-i Hoken hall, Tokyo, Japan, recorded in January 25th, 1984. Both Solo Tribute and Last Solo were reissued on Image Entertainment DVD in 2002.

In the late 1990s, Jarrett was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and was confined to his home for long periods of time. It was during this period that he recorded The Melody at Night, With You, a solo piano record consisting of jazz standards presented with very little of the reinterpretation in which he usually engages. The album had originally been a Christmas Day gift to his second wife, Rose Anne.

By 2000, he had returned to touring, both solo and with the Standards Trio. Two 2002 solo concerts in Japan, Jarrett's first solo piano concerts following his illness, were released on the 2005 CD Radiance (a complete concert in Osaka, and excerpts from one in Tokyo), and the 2006 DVD Tokyo Solo (the entire Tokyo performance).

In January 2009, he again performed solo at Carnegie Hall in New York. The concert was recorded for possible future CD release.

See also:
www.listal.com/list/keith-jarrett-catalog