1 00:00:07,420 --> 00:00:10,641 This is a documentary about one of the improvisation masters 2 00:00:14,427 --> 00:00:20,934 Improvisation has never been weighted as it deserves. 3 00:00:28,516 --> 00:00:31,455 Due to its holistic character 4 00:00:31,642 --> 00:00:37,242 Demand everything at once in real time, - correction is impossible. 5 00:00:38,514 --> 00:00:42,514 Your nervous system has to be fully alert 6 00:00:43,063 --> 00:00:48,063 to a much greater degree than in any other type of music. 7 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:01,657 I am essentially an improviser. 8 00:01:01,843 --> 00:01:06,693 It's something I've learned through classical music. 9 00:01:20,293 --> 00:01:25,135 Bach was an improviser. And at one point 10 00:01:24,528 --> 00:01:27,663 improvisation was consolidated in a composition. 11 00:01:28,056 --> 00:01:30,393 - Oh, yes? - Well, I don't know. 12 00:01:30,382 --> 00:01:32,065 Me neither. 13 00:01:34,155 --> 00:01:36,804 We don't know how they improvised Beethoven or Bach. 14 00:01:36,995 --> 00:01:39,639 Because we don't have recordings. 15 00:01:48,661 --> 00:01:51,191 Although Bach has used of improvisation, 16 00:01:51,381 --> 00:01:55,165 the evolution of classical music, unlike jazz, 17 00:01:55,351 --> 00:01:58,874 depends on the notation, not from the recording. 18 00:02:05,583 --> 00:02:08,186 Keith Jarrett represents that strange combination: 19 00:02:08,376 --> 00:02:11,753 a great jazz improviser and classical pianist 20 00:02:11,940 --> 00:02:17,189 who plays works from Bach to Arvo P�rt, from Mozart to Shostakovich. 21 00:02:20,358 --> 00:02:23,996 Keith has also written for other classical compositions. 22 00:02:45,191 --> 00:02:48,347 He used the sounds of classical instruments 23 00:02:48,534 --> 00:02:53,051 for your own exploration trips in the world of improvisation. 24 00:03:05,878 --> 00:03:10,029 Apart from music, how important Do you have other things in your thinking? 25 00:03:10,216 --> 00:03:13,111 - They are more important than music. - Literature, philosophy... 26 00:03:13,303 --> 00:03:15,655 More important than music. 27 00:03:15,839 --> 00:03:17,637 - Really? - Yes. 28 00:03:17,824 --> 00:03:25,319 One of the biggest fallacies in circles artistic and musical is perhaps 29 00:03:25,506 --> 00:03:30,125 when it is said that music comes from music. 30 00:03:30,321 --> 00:03:35,244 Like children emerge from children. It's not true, it's not like that. 31 00:03:35,430 --> 00:03:40,329 Music is the result of a process that musicians experience, 32 00:03:40,430 --> 00:03:45,413 especially when the music is being created at that moment. 33 00:03:46,214 --> 00:03:52,314 Since 1970, Keith has shared his musical explorations in a unique way 34 00:03:52,315 --> 00:03:56,027 and creative with the producer of German records Manfred Eicher. 35 00:03:56,028 --> 00:03:59,037 From the first moment I realized that he was a person 36 00:03:59,225 --> 00:04:06,354 that I was looking for something, that I had passion and took risks... 37 00:04:10,635 --> 00:04:15,223 It's as if both We would look for similar things, 38 00:04:15,413 --> 00:04:17,911 Him as the creative musician 39 00:04:18,095 --> 00:04:21,253 and I as the willing person to capture that creation 40 00:04:21,441 --> 00:04:24,189 and develop it for the future. 41 00:04:26,824 --> 00:04:31,079 We understood each other immediately in 1971. 42 00:04:33,183 --> 00:04:36,821 We realized that we aspired to the same, 43 00:04:37,006 --> 00:04:40,236 We both valued integrity, 44 00:04:37,523 --> 00:04:39,688 We weren't going to play little games. 45 00:04:39,876 --> 00:04:45,093 That's why we have always told ourselves things very clearly. 46 00:04:49,179 --> 00:04:52,514 What we present is always the work of two people. 47 00:04:56,221 --> 00:04:59,262 I think I'm a good listener, 48 00:04:59,456 --> 00:05:02,539 and that is very important for a musician. 49 00:05:04,648 --> 00:05:09,599 Keith is the man of the song, He is a singer. 50 00:05:09,783 --> 00:05:13,965 And it's wonderful how shapes its melodies. 51 00:05:23,403 --> 00:05:29,425 Keith's close association with Eicher has been translated into very diverse music 52 00:05:29,613 --> 00:05:32,217 and a catalog of more than 60 recordings. 53 00:05:32,407 --> 00:05:34,571 Keith has so many ideas. 54 00:05:35,059 --> 00:05:39,607 And I'm sure there are many good ones. songs of his still unrecorded. 55 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,184 But when he founded the trio, 56 00:05:42,374 --> 00:05:45,938 with Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock, I decided to play standards. 57 00:05:53,019 --> 00:05:56,981 For more than 20 years the Tr�o de Keith's Standards has toured the world, 58 00:06:00,172 --> 00:06:04,970 inspired mainly by the popular songs of the United States. 59 00:06:17,903 --> 00:06:21,426 What fascinated me was the character youthful in our way of playing, 60 00:06:19,615 --> 00:06:21,706 and we are not that young. 61 00:06:21,894 --> 00:06:26,922 Gary is much older than me, Jack somewhat older, and I am no longer a child. 62 00:06:29,113 --> 00:06:32,594 And what I heard when I played was that... 63 00:06:32,789 --> 00:06:36,197 the experience of truthfulness... 64 00:06:41,552 --> 00:06:44,154 It is often said that three They are already a multitude. 65 00:06:44,345 --> 00:06:48,233 I thought about using it as an album title �Three is not a crowd.� 66 00:07:01,848 --> 00:07:06,625 For Jack and Gary the piano has been always an essential starting point. 67 00:07:09,603 --> 00:07:13,534 The piano has been very important in my own musical evolution. 68 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,883 It is an instrument incredibly important. 69 00:07:16,072 --> 00:07:18,789 It doesn't matter if you are a percussionist or a double bassist, or something else, 70 00:07:18,975 --> 00:07:20,700 The piano is essential. 71 00:07:20,886 --> 00:07:24,922 Because it provides a context in the that you hear a sound and a bell. 72 00:07:30,931 --> 00:07:37,538 It has transformed my assessment of the battery. 73 00:07:37,731 --> 00:07:41,109 Now I consider it more like an orchestral instrument. 74 00:07:53,269 --> 00:07:56,352 What Keith does when comes out on stage 75 00:07:56,540 --> 00:07:59,070 is to sit down and play a couple of notes on the grand piano, 76 00:07:59,259 --> 00:08:02,562 to test the acoustics of the room. 77 00:08:03,633 --> 00:08:06,864 It really takes into account the sound of the room, 78 00:08:07,052 --> 00:08:09,623 what the piano is going to sound like. 79 00:08:09,808 --> 00:08:11,606 And make changes if necessary 80 00:08:11,793 --> 00:08:14,688 when we start playing and the room is full. 81 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,111 Yes, we will do that. You win. 82 00:08:18,298 --> 00:08:23,295 It has been 28 years since we We know and work together. 83 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,278 What does that job entail? 84 00:08:27,966 --> 00:08:34,615 I am a manager, agent, I organize tours and the transportation of percussion. 85 00:08:35,794 --> 00:08:39,317 And the double bass. I take care of all the details of the trips. 86 00:08:39,506 --> 00:08:43,291 Most of the time it is a pleasure. Sometimes it is very hard work. 87 00:08:45,477 --> 00:08:51,205 It is characterized by the intensity that Keith he puts into his life and his work. 88 00:08:51,293 --> 00:08:55,836 Overall it is very rewarding. because he is a unique and special musician. 89 00:09:00,987 --> 00:09:04,887 the trio with Jack and Gary is based on playing 90 00:09:06,088 --> 00:09:10,288 They hardly deal with Keith's composition music 91 00:09:13,752 --> 00:09:18,007 The music is improvised, even if it is there The Things You Are� or �Autumn Leaves�. 92 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,715 When they play, whatever they do: 93 00:09:19,908 --> 00:09:24,843 arises only in real time, during the concert. 94 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:30,745 Is the other piano okay there? 95 00:09:30,929 --> 00:09:35,853 I want to try to see if this changes anything. 96 00:09:36,039 --> 00:09:39,635 How many works do you always have? available in your head 97 00:09:39,824 --> 00:09:42,428 When do you play those standards? 98 00:09:42,618 --> 00:09:45,043 I have never counted them. Many. 99 00:09:45,228 --> 00:09:48,130 When I was playing Boston commercial music 100 00:09:48,131 --> 00:09:51,144 to earn enough money to study there, 101 00:09:51,145 --> 00:09:54,783 and also at Fred Waring's lnn in the Pocono Mountains, 102 00:09:54,784 --> 00:09:58,128 where he used to play at meal time, 103 00:09:58,129 --> 00:10:01,031 since no one listened to me, What I proposed was: 104 00:10:03,032 --> 00:10:05,008 I'm supposed to play the piano 105 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,060 but no one really cares what I'm playing, 106 00:10:09,061 --> 00:10:15,144 So I learned one melody after another, and I continued learning more and more pieces. 107 00:10:22,472 --> 00:10:25,996 Do you already know in advance what melodies is it going to play or does that just happen...? 108 00:10:26,184 --> 00:10:29,749 - We have no order. - There are so many. 109 00:10:29,933 --> 00:10:34,083 At the sound check, if there is a piece that we haven't played before, we do it. 110 00:10:34,271 --> 00:10:39,737 If Keith wants to make any changes rhythmic or harmonic, 111 00:10:39,931 --> 00:10:41,875 we tried it. 112 00:10:48,118 --> 00:10:51,640 There are countless times we have done a sound check 113 00:10:51,830 --> 00:10:58,290 and we have rehearsed a few melodies that we have not played in concert since. 114 00:11:12,557 --> 00:11:18,723 What we do as a trio is have an image before us. 115 00:11:18,915 --> 00:11:23,065 It is known that here is the reason, 116 00:11:23,253 --> 00:11:26,890 and here the intuition: both they work simultaneously. 117 00:11:30,513 --> 00:11:32,896 Music dominates us. 118 00:11:33,086 --> 00:11:35,349 If music guides you 119 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,634 You don't have to worry about what you play. 120 00:11:38,727 --> 00:11:42,099 The music tells you what to play. 121 00:11:50,413 --> 00:11:54,050 And you just let yourself go, floating with her. 122 00:11:54,234 --> 00:11:58,532 When played perfectly �on time�, It's like going at a fixed gear... 123 00:11:58,719 --> 00:12:00,443 We don't play like that. 124 00:12:07,821 --> 00:12:12,891 How is that possible? How can that happen? 125 00:12:17,495 --> 00:12:21,824 I haven't seen him in a while a long time, just know, 126 00:12:22,016 --> 00:12:25,425 that this track fascinated me every time again. 127 00:12:29,624 --> 00:12:35,134 It is a singular example of penetrating inside the music. 128 00:12:35,321 --> 00:12:42,075 There are no limits however We keep playing the song. 129 00:12:42,267 --> 00:12:50,016 Or actually we don't but we still refer to it. 130 00:13:22,206 --> 00:13:25,729 Jack and Gary will always continue, 131 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:28,813 yes it is, as they say in sports is on the court. 132 00:13:31,005 --> 00:13:34,529 If they are on the court, they participate. 133 00:13:58,574 --> 00:14:01,690 Already as a child, he quickly manifested In Keith's case 134 00:14:03,282 --> 00:14:07,391 his great talent as a musician and budding composer. 135 00:14:08,183 --> 00:14:11,535 Keith started very early to play the piano, 136 00:14:11,619 --> 00:14:15,193 like most of the family. It started around three years old. 137 00:14:16,087 --> 00:14:21,554 But at five he was already playing music above their physical capabilities. 138 00:14:25,147 --> 00:14:29,548 A child can perhaps reach this far. 139 00:14:29,742 --> 00:14:33,411 Keith played pieces that took him up and down the keyboard. 140 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,503 He had to move from one side to the other. 141 00:14:35,696 --> 00:14:39,480 I probably got it moving his butt. 142 00:14:39,665 --> 00:14:43,074 With his little legs either I could reach the pedals. 143 00:14:43,267 --> 00:14:49,653 We had to buy these extensions so that it could reach the pedals. 144 00:14:49,846 --> 00:14:54,801 I'm sure it's Keith because She is certainly the image of a young man. 145 00:14:54,992 --> 00:14:59,611 �He believes that the musical talent of the family came from the mother's side? 146 00:14:59,807 --> 00:15:06,047 Musical understanding, contact and the love for music come from her. 147 00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:17,478 He played the percussion, the horn, the piano, trumpet and banjo. 148 00:15:17,669 --> 00:15:21,526 She sang and they invited her to sing with a group on tours. 149 00:15:21,712 --> 00:15:25,862 So I could read music and help me at home. 150 00:15:26,049 --> 00:15:31,005 He was also the one who got me my first teacher. 151 00:15:31,195 --> 00:15:35,596 And my father never had to do a lot with all this. 152 00:15:38,789 --> 00:15:41,214 He liked the double bass. 153 00:15:42,758 --> 00:15:45,110 Keith was the oldest of five children. 154 00:15:45,294 --> 00:15:48,963 Their mother encouraged all of them to study music. 155 00:15:49,925 --> 00:15:54,180 His idea was 156 00:15:54,373 --> 00:16:00,015 that music in our life had emotional meaning. 157 00:16:01,104 --> 00:16:05,766 My brothers and I were very nice. We got along well. 158 00:16:05,956 --> 00:16:08,746 I was the oldest and the next one, Eric. 159 00:16:08,933 --> 00:16:13,009 We understood each other very well, we played together and we were close friends. 160 00:16:14,796 --> 00:16:18,979 What do you think you sacrificed? Keith for his music? 161 00:16:19,171 --> 00:16:23,539 All the fun things and normal adolescents. 162 00:16:23,728 --> 00:16:26,446 I think Keith sacrificed being able to 163 00:16:26,632 --> 00:16:32,767 to have great experiences in that period of adolescence and youth. 164 00:16:32,952 --> 00:16:36,330 I knew very well what I wanted do and what he could do. 165 00:16:36,518 --> 00:16:40,114 When Keith gave his first concert public in Allentown, Pennsylvania, 166 00:16:40,303 --> 00:16:42,029 I was only eight years old. 167 00:16:42,216 --> 00:16:46,292 And it already included his own compositions at the end of a classic program. 168 00:16:49,379 --> 00:16:53,016 Even then it included things that were improvised. 169 00:16:53,201 --> 00:16:55,291 � And the improvisations arose 170 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,117 - from within as something spontaneous? - Yes. 171 00:16:59,302 --> 00:17:01,612 He didn't know at all what he was doing. 172 00:17:02,573 --> 00:17:06,504 Like a common thread, that has never been broken. 173 00:17:06,690 --> 00:17:10,872 improvisation accompanies me from then until now. 174 00:17:11,065 --> 00:17:17,197 I already improvised, jazz was my thing, but I didn't know anything about him 175 00:17:17,292 --> 00:17:24,305 until it started to fragment by Andr� Previn or Oscar Peterson. 176 00:17:22,899 --> 00:17:28,187 And then I heard �Works of Ahmad Jamal�. 177 00:17:42,677 --> 00:17:45,646 And that left me very touched: 178 00:17:45,837 --> 00:17:50,440 something is happening here and that's what I want to be. 179 00:18:02,504 --> 00:18:05,222 The piano technique of Keith is extraordinary. 180 00:18:05,408 --> 00:18:10,804 But as a child he had to find a way to overcome the handicap of their small hands. 181 00:18:12,588 --> 00:18:15,930 I was at school listening to the teacher 182 00:18:15,931 --> 00:18:20,962 when I was young enough to stretch certain parts of my hands. 183 00:18:21,963 --> 00:18:24,607 I spent my time listening 184 00:18:24,708 --> 00:18:29,163 and doing this exercise constantly in my chair. 185 00:18:29,164 --> 00:18:31,685 And this space in my hand 186 00:18:32,086 --> 00:18:37,318 from thumb to index finger is not like that usually in people's hands. 187 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:45,608 I needed to find a remedy. 188 00:18:53,999 --> 00:18:56,863 But when he's on stage the intensity of his interpretation 189 00:18:57,048 --> 00:19:00,206 seems to be often linked to the relationship physics that he maintains with the piano. 190 00:19:00,394 --> 00:19:04,031 �It's something that happened spontaneously When did you start playing jazz? 191 00:19:04,216 --> 00:19:06,787 I think it happened before. 192 00:19:07,892 --> 00:19:10,567 When they gave me my first piano at eight years old 193 00:19:10,758 --> 00:19:14,314 I wanted a walkie-talkie, an elephant or a piano. 194 00:19:14,405 --> 00:19:16,306 The piano thing was a surprise. 195 00:19:16,499 --> 00:19:19,761 I didn't think it would be the piano, we had no money. 196 00:19:19,955 --> 00:19:23,405 Then I found out it was the money of my concerts the one who bought it. 197 00:19:24,594 --> 00:19:26,464 I used to sleep under him. 198 00:19:26,652 --> 00:19:31,020 So at eight years old he already maintained a physical relationship with the piano. 199 00:19:46,661 --> 00:19:51,689 Then you can't even imagine Not being able to move while playing? 200 00:19:51,881 --> 00:19:56,135 Well, the doctors told me that You shouldn't, it's bad for your back. 201 00:19:57,945 --> 00:20:00,370 But they are doctors, what do they know? 202 00:20:00,555 --> 00:20:05,293 They may be right, but they don't know what it's about. 203 00:20:19,416 --> 00:20:23,713 When you have so many things going through your system, 204 00:20:23,901 --> 00:20:26,618 a critical point is reached: 205 00:20:26,804 --> 00:20:30,515 where or do you transmit it like sound or you die. 206 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,663 �It also happens when he is rehearsing classical music? 207 00:20:39,850 --> 00:20:42,307 No, because it is not something May it arise through me. 208 00:20:42,497 --> 00:20:46,312 It may happen on a smaller scale, but it is not comparable. 209 00:20:46,504 --> 00:20:50,287 It is not a question of content, but how you get involved. 210 00:20:50,473 --> 00:20:55,534 But when you improvise, all the things are essential at the same time: 211 00:20:55,535 --> 00:21:00,975 content, nuances, the way of playing it, 212 00:21:01,076 --> 00:21:08,135 the theme, the dynamics, the risk, all at the same time. 213 00:21:08,136 --> 00:21:13,469 And if you don't make a sound after of that, you will never broadcast it again. 214 00:21:16,665 --> 00:21:23,637 In 2003 Keith received in Stockholm the prestigious Polar Music Prize. 215 00:21:23,832 --> 00:21:27,616 The person in charge of presenting it He was Keith's first manager. 216 00:21:27,802 --> 00:21:31,363 Ladies and gentlemen, let's Welcome to George Avakian. 217 00:21:33,669 --> 00:21:38,960 In 1967 George brought the innovative Charles Lloyd Quartet to Europe 218 00:21:39,146 --> 00:21:43,916 American musicians They had to step onto the world stage. 219 00:21:43,917 --> 00:21:44,917 The risk was worth it. 220 00:21:45,402 --> 00:21:51,015 37 years ago a complete stranger member of a new jazz quartet, 221 00:21:51,209 --> 00:21:55,097 in which he also played his current colleague Jack DeJohnette, 222 00:21:55,289 --> 00:21:57,556 came for the first time to Stockholm: Keith Jarrett. 223 00:21:57,752 --> 00:22:03,741 And ten days later he left with the reputation of a potential star. 224 00:22:04,926 --> 00:22:07,821 This is the first trip to Europe 225 00:22:08,013 --> 00:22:10,511 that Keith performed with him Charles Lloyd Quartet. 226 00:22:10,696 --> 00:22:13,958 We travel on a flight of Scandinavian Airlines. 227 00:22:28,479 --> 00:22:30,936 From the first moment it was clear 228 00:22:31,126 --> 00:22:35,903 who was an exceptional pianist with a great personality at the piano. 229 00:22:43,616 --> 00:22:47,254 Keith always had what I thought which was a colossal technique. 230 00:22:47,439 --> 00:22:51,034 On that first trip I asked Stockholm: 231 00:22:51,224 --> 00:22:56,515 How do you know what you are going to do? when you start doing... 232 00:22:56,701 --> 00:23:00,777 Well, they weren't really cadences, but frenetic attacks on the keyboard? 233 00:23:09,552 --> 00:23:12,928 And he said: I don't know, my hands They do it and it comes out like this. 234 00:23:13,117 --> 00:23:16,216 I asked him: do you know how it's going to turn out? 235 00:23:16,299 --> 00:23:19,075 He said: no, but it always ends up working. 236 00:23:38,565 --> 00:23:43,855 Keith was amazing. He was a musician lover of exploring, as we all know. 237 00:23:45,437 --> 00:23:50,237 I was amazed when I found out that Keith could play the soprano sax 238 00:24:06,138 --> 00:24:10,938 I think this arises from the interest of Keith for oriental music, 239 00:24:14,039 --> 00:24:18,339 because he has dedicated himself to exploring more than most musicians. 240 00:24:34,430 --> 00:24:37,399 When I met him I saw in him a person that investigated inside, 241 00:24:37,688 --> 00:24:43,970 who read books that most of 19-year-olds, 242 00:24:44,156 --> 00:24:48,769 especially jazz musicians, They are not interested at all. 243 00:24:49,870 --> 00:24:52,880 I was interested in Gurdjieff's philosophy. 244 00:24:52,881 --> 00:24:57,018 I don't remember what I thought before discovering his writings. 245 00:24:57,519 --> 00:25:01,598 He was about twenty years old and they were the early years with Charles Lloyd. 246 00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:06,376 But I knew it had more to do with the music than what the musicians said. 247 00:25:08,477 --> 00:25:12,225 This is a spiritual teacher that says: don't believe me, 248 00:25:12,226 --> 00:25:15,276 listen only to what I have What to say and take what you can. 249 00:25:15,277 --> 00:25:20,839 If you think that makes sense, then Maybe you should continue reading. 250 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,040 That recording was a spiritual exercise more than a musical one, 251 00:25:37,641 --> 00:25:43,241 based on certain states that are supposed to be desirable. 252 00:25:52,101 --> 00:25:55,725 Music is for me the result of a process. It is also a process, 253 00:25:55,726 --> 00:25:59,696 but it is the result of a process that has nothing to do with music. 254 00:26:01,997 --> 00:26:07,030 The Musical Art of Keith Jarrett is characterized by its ability 255 00:26:07,031 --> 00:26:12,874 to cross borders apparently effortless in the world of music. 256 00:26:12,475 --> 00:26:16,077 Keith Jarrett, please come forward. 257 00:26:16,078 --> 00:26:21,086 to receive his prize from the hands of His Majesty the King. 258 00:26:37,633 --> 00:26:39,726 That's something you would like see George Avakian. 259 00:26:39,727 --> 00:26:44,578 This was returned to me in 1968. after recording sessions 260 00:26:44,579 --> 00:26:46,857 What I did with Keith. 261 00:26:46,858 --> 00:26:50,974 They were my first experiences in a recording studio. 262 00:26:50,975 --> 00:26:58,189 It was probably the catalyst that It made me so interested in studies. 263 00:27:13,064 --> 00:27:17,152 -Who is that? - It's Keith. 264 00:27:26,318 --> 00:27:32,728 It's my piece with Keith on the piano, I play the guitar and he sings. 265 00:27:48,258 --> 00:27:53,993 Keith is a passionate person and only You can do things with passion. 266 00:27:54,084 --> 00:27:57,293 Cold things are not his thing. 267 00:27:59,982 --> 00:28:03,060 Believe that all that passion Is it expressed in your music? 268 00:28:03,146 --> 00:28:07,176 I think it is expressed enormously in his music. 269 00:28:07,465 --> 00:28:10,868 It's the only way he expresses it delicately. 270 00:28:10,954 --> 00:28:14,111 And express the passion no matter what, 271 00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:15,553 and if you talk to him at the wrong time 272 00:28:15,936 --> 00:28:20,960 and is not able to provide you what you want, 273 00:28:21,848 --> 00:28:25,679 I will let you know and not always It will be comfortable for you. 274 00:28:25,764 --> 00:28:30,572 But in his music he is capable to communicate with all the nuances. 275 00:28:38,423 --> 00:28:42,561 The romantic side of Keith's music is the starting point of 276 00:28:42,645 --> 00:28:46,142 a memorable and exceptional collaboration with vibraphonist Gary Burton. 277 00:28:50,322 --> 00:28:53,961 It was in the seventies, I think we did it in 1970. 278 00:28:54,146 --> 00:28:58,254 I knew Keith a little, we had approximately the same age. 279 00:28:58,445 --> 00:29:02,522 We met when we were little more than twenty years. 280 00:29:02,709 --> 00:29:05,604 I respected him a lot as an interpreter. 281 00:29:05,796 --> 00:29:08,838 I didn't really know his music as a composer. 282 00:29:15,329 --> 00:29:19,846 When I called him to ask him play some of your songs, 283 00:29:20,034 --> 00:29:27,674 He said: "How about I go too?" with the songs and we play them together? 284 00:29:28,066 --> 00:29:32,613 Because now I'm not doing anything and it's something that would be fun. 285 00:29:32,807 --> 00:29:34,678 I told him: “great! 286 00:29:34,866 --> 00:29:40,740 So Keith joined me foursome all summer. 287 00:29:43,013 --> 00:29:48,406 I wrote those songs in Paris; there had been broken engine of our Volkswagen, 288 00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:52,603 I sat in a cafe, without money to be somewhere else 289 00:29:52,790 --> 00:29:57,458 and wait for the new engine. That's how I composed the music. 290 00:30:04,529 --> 00:30:08,534 So it was a lot of fun. do this project with him. 291 00:30:11,035 --> 00:30:13,930 The photo is a little misleading. 292 00:30:14,123 --> 00:30:17,938 When you look at it you might think in Europe or something like that. 293 00:30:18,129 --> 00:30:22,676 But it's in New Jersey, a mile away or so from Keith's house. 294 00:30:34,655 --> 00:30:37,989 Many people like this recording. 295 00:30:38,182 --> 00:30:42,770 It's one of those recordings that They have been maintained for a long time. 296 00:31:03,449 --> 00:31:07,191 �I left the acoustic piano when Did you play with Miles Davis? 297 00:31:07,382 --> 00:31:10,171 No, I did what Miles wanted. 298 00:31:17,459 --> 00:31:23,292 He was the only one I deserved then. worth folding musically. 299 00:31:40,205 --> 00:31:44,020 I had come to hear my uncle in Paris. 300 00:31:50,644 --> 00:31:52,953 He had come with his entire group. 301 00:31:53,143 --> 00:31:56,707 I wondered how he did it. I told him what he meant. 302 00:31:56,892 --> 00:32:00,488 He said playing from nothing. I said I didn't know, I did. 303 00:32:00,677 --> 00:32:04,316 After hearing me a couple times with my uncle, he told me: 304 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:10,503 If you feel like playing, come and start playing with us. 305 00:32:19,732 --> 00:32:22,741 What did I gain from it? 306 00:32:21,949 --> 00:32:25,178 I heard how happy he was. 307 00:32:28,082 --> 00:32:30,538 And how strong. I went through a period of great strength. 308 00:32:33,791 --> 00:32:38,307 He started to be on stage bending over in that typical way, 309 00:32:38,495 --> 00:32:42,237 and he was all ears and fit... 310 00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:47,740 That's what I earned. 311 00:33:08,723 --> 00:33:11,221 Did they ever have a dialogue? 312 00:33:11,606 --> 00:33:15,317 Yes, it was impossible not to do it from time to time. 313 00:33:15,318 --> 00:33:21,127 If there was an ideal time to to echo, to respond... 314 00:33:37,372 --> 00:33:39,288 We were trying to find the groove. 315 00:33:39,289 --> 00:33:41,631 What was the groove? 316 00:33:42,575 --> 00:33:44,310 I don't want to say that It would have to be funky. 317 00:33:44,491 --> 00:33:46,611 In the end that is what that he was really looking for. 318 00:33:46,798 --> 00:33:49,918 I was trying to be funkier. 319 00:33:57,539 --> 00:34:02,090 The window was open. What were we going to look at? 320 00:34:02,277 --> 00:34:09,015 It wasn't about forcing things, It was a very fun group. 321 00:34:12,446 --> 00:34:17,342 This is what can be done with instruments electronics: have a good time. 322 00:34:17,522 --> 00:34:21,982 These are toys, and I had a lot of fun. 323 00:34:21,371 --> 00:34:26,479 He could play his own instrument, but not me. 324 00:34:39,979 --> 00:34:46,187 After the electrical experience with Miles, Keith returned to the acoustic piano with relief. 325 00:34:48,959 --> 00:34:53,696 He began a remarkable series of solo concerts and recordings 326 00:34:53,782 --> 00:34:58,648 that continue to this day for the German label ECM 327 00:34:58,728 --> 00:35:02,054 and his spiritual guide, Manfred Eicher. 328 00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:16,551 What I hear today is pure Keith and also what was heard at the beginning. 329 00:35:16,732 --> 00:35:24,053 Our recordings started with a solo concert in Oslo, �Facing You�. 330 00:35:36,195 --> 00:35:40,273 We decided to do that after giving a long walk in Munich, 331 00:35:40,455 --> 00:35:42,685 after a Miles Davis concert. 332 00:35:48,376 --> 00:35:50,605 Later the music worked well 333 00:35:50,789 --> 00:35:55,801 because Keith and I decided to look venues for solo concerts. 334 00:36:21,728 --> 00:36:25,018 It took me many years to realize that with solo concerts 335 00:36:25,206 --> 00:36:29,790 was actually commissioned to write new material every time he played. 336 00:36:30,069 --> 00:36:32,481 As if I were writing new material. 337 00:36:32,659 --> 00:36:36,350 I thought, well, I'm improvising for 45 minutes, 338 00:36:36,351 --> 00:36:40,435 then a break, then another 40 minutes. 339 00:36:47,436 --> 00:36:52,136 It is interesting that the most famous work of Keith's improvisation almost didn't happen 340 00:36:53,761 --> 00:36:58,126 Colony was different, because they passed so many negative things at once. 341 00:36:58,127 --> 00:37:01,533 Manfred and I were two sleepless nights. 342 00:37:01,534 --> 00:37:06,573 We were sitting in the lobby the afternoon of the concert 343 00:37:06,574 --> 00:37:10,193 and we still didn't know that in the room It was the wrong piano. 344 00:37:10,194 --> 00:37:12,855 The piano Keith asked for had not arrived. 345 00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:16,980 The one in the living room seemed inappropriate: 346 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,269 It sounded metallic and without the spectrum timbre that he wanted. 347 00:37:20,270 --> 00:37:25,073 But finally decided What would he play on that piano? 348 00:37:25,174 --> 00:37:31,343 I decided to put the microphones on and tried to get the best out of it. 349 00:37:34,044 --> 00:37:39,225 In the afternoon Keith played that concert wonderful that made history. 350 00:37:39,226 --> 00:37:42,951 You probably played like you did because it wasn't a good piano. 351 00:37:42,952 --> 00:37:45,755 Couldn't fall in love with the instrument 352 00:37:45,756 --> 00:37:53,688 and found another way to get out everything possible and the best of it. 353 00:37:57,189 --> 00:38:01,289 The Cologne concert became the most sold in jazz history 354 00:38:11,475 --> 00:38:15,591 It is impossible to predict what will happen in an improvised concert. 355 00:38:15,592 --> 00:38:20,915 Manfred has recorded many more concerts of those that have been published on CD. 356 00:38:20,916 --> 00:38:24,677 I haven't counted them, 357 00:38:24,678 --> 00:38:34,063 but everyone, including the trio, There will be more than a hundred. 358 00:38:37,931 --> 00:38:42,472 The genie of the lamp: never You know when it's going to appear. 359 00:38:42,473 --> 00:38:46,551 So it's best to try and record the greatest number of concerts possible. 360 00:38:47,052 --> 00:38:51,155 It takes time, like for a good wine, to put it in the bottle, 361 00:38:51,856 --> 00:38:57,011 and it takes years, once published, to see how it works. 362 00:38:58,067 --> 00:39:03,248 Since the 70s Keith has had in Japan to its most dedicated and enthusiastic audience. 363 00:39:03,249 --> 00:39:07,898 He has played more than 150 concerts there. 364 00:39:07,899 --> 00:39:11,975 Keith is in a relationship very special with Japan. 365 00:39:11,976 --> 00:39:16,048 He has been working for 30 years with Toshinari Koinuma, 366 00:39:16,149 --> 00:39:19,287 who is a close friend of Keith. 367 00:39:19,488 --> 00:39:24,456 They organize the concerts in an extraordinary way. 368 00:39:24,457 --> 00:39:26,940 It is the only place in the world where I don't need to go. 369 00:39:26,941 --> 00:39:32,726 The Japanese are very methodical and kind. 370 00:39:32,727 --> 00:39:36,488 That impressed Keith, which is very punctual. 371 00:39:36,489 --> 00:39:44,510 Although Keith has been many times in Japan in the last 30 years, 372 00:39:44,511 --> 00:39:55,513 always goes to the same hotel and to exactly the same room. 373 00:40:00,514 --> 00:40:05,233 Keith's life routine aside of the music completely contrasts 374 00:40:05,234 --> 00:40:08,346 with the risks he looks for when he plays. 375 00:40:29,248 --> 00:40:33,292 I prepared for solo concerts in November in Japan 376 00:40:33,293 --> 00:40:46,141 proposing to undo everything that had done in solo concerts. 377 00:40:50,142 --> 00:40:57,417 That meant: recognizing everything he didn't do. 378 00:40:57,418 --> 00:41:02,634 I realized that my left hand He knew things that I didn't know. 379 00:41:03,135 --> 00:41:06,677 My left hand had abilities 380 00:41:06,778 --> 00:41:10,844 that I was ignoring for years and years. 381 00:41:19,345 --> 00:41:23,354 When I allowed him to play without the more he started touching things 382 00:41:23,355 --> 00:41:30,708 that they left suspended the harmonic flow 383 00:41:30,709 --> 00:41:33,843 the way I was looking for. 384 00:41:34,044 --> 00:41:36,996 I didn't want everything to resolve all the time. 385 00:41:40,397 --> 00:41:44,301 He was not successful 386 00:41:44,302 --> 00:41:49,483 that would justify the type of energy that I put in. 387 00:41:49,484 --> 00:41:53,636 That's the essence of what you do: you have to work hard... 388 00:41:53,637 --> 00:41:56,723 "You are very harsh on yourselves." when you hear their...? 389 00:41:56,724 --> 00:42:00,382 Don't you hear that I am? 390 00:42:01,783 --> 00:42:05,509 Yes, I am extremely severe with me all the time. 391 00:42:05,510 --> 00:42:09,199 In the mid-80s Keith underwent at even higher pressure 392 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,151 when he embarked on the harsh world de la m�sica cl�sica. 393 00:42:26,418 --> 00:42:30,657 Siempre pens� que ten�a que estar muy preparado para tocar cl�sico. 394 00:42:32,399 --> 00:42:36,651 As I came from this strange world, It was something that was not accepted. 395 00:42:37,052 --> 00:42:41,489 It was like an invading agent in the rankings. 396 00:42:42,724 --> 00:42:46,479 Tienes que aportar todo tu ser. 397 00:42:46,662 --> 00:42:52,730 That means that at certain times You don't play jazz or improvise, 398 00:42:54,709 --> 00:42:59,777 como tampoco eres un m�sico cl�sico just to play Mozart or Bach. 399 00:43:09,345 --> 00:43:11,971 They are different worlds. 400 00:43:14,563 --> 00:43:16,298 They are two very different worlds 401 00:43:16,298 --> 00:43:19,912 that I have to close a world in order to do justice to the other. 402 00:43:20,096 --> 00:43:25,698 If I want to do justice to Mozart, I have I had to stop playing jazz those days. 403 00:43:34,489 --> 00:43:38,174 In 1985 Keith joined his colleague, the pianist Chick Corea, 404 00:43:38,359 --> 00:43:43,324 at his first musical meeting since they played together with Miles Davis. 405 00:43:46,140 --> 00:43:48,441 It's as if Mozart was conducting. 406 00:43:48,624 --> 00:43:54,762 We had a wonderful dialogue because we don't improvise anything. 407 00:43:54,942 --> 00:43:59,373 Except some turns, We stuck to the score. 408 00:44:03,735 --> 00:44:12,002 I suggested to Keith and Chick that they play Mozart's Double Concerto. 409 00:44:15,092 --> 00:44:20,512 When I told Chick that Keith agreed, Chick literally turned pale. 410 00:44:26,805 --> 00:44:32,485 He said, "If Keith wants to play with me, So I have to study hard�. 411 00:44:46,896 --> 00:44:50,298 My first piano, an octave higher. 412 00:44:55,733 --> 00:45:00,449 I remember thinking it was great idea to play with Keith 413 00:45:00,631 --> 00:45:04,811 and that the meeting was with Mozart, a composer we both love. 414 00:45:22,372 --> 00:45:27,015 We meet in Japan and rehearse the two alone, with two pianos. 415 00:45:27,198 --> 00:45:31,701 For me it was an experience wonderful playing with Keith. 416 00:45:48,519 --> 00:45:53,345 The rhythm is good, there is no problem with rhythm. It has swing. 417 00:46:06,455 --> 00:46:09,746 People asked me why I didn't improvise my cadences. 418 00:46:09,934 --> 00:46:15,497 I realized that when you think about improvisation, 419 00:46:15,683 --> 00:46:20,469 you think about connecting something written with something else written. 420 00:46:29,574 --> 00:46:31,876 When I think of improvisation, 421 00:46:32,058 --> 00:46:35,955 I think about going from zero to zero, or wherever it goes. 422 00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:38,765 But I'm not connecting one thing with another. 423 00:46:38,944 --> 00:46:43,022 So I ended up using the cadences by Mozart or those written by others, 424 00:46:44,203 --> 00:46:49,145 because at least it was being true to myself 425 00:46:49,824 --> 00:46:54,831 when thinking about the importance that improvisation had. 426 00:47:08,002 --> 00:47:09,768 Here we come to the end. 427 00:47:25,734 --> 00:47:28,743 Oh, how beautiful. 428 00:47:29,355 --> 00:47:30,909 What an extraordinary moment! 429 00:47:38,854 --> 00:47:40,166 Marvelous. 430 00:47:41,645 --> 00:47:43,169 Keith is happy. 431 00:47:45,555 --> 00:47:48,533 I can't even think a moment to be regretted 432 00:47:48,714 --> 00:47:51,581 of the musical journey that has made to all those worlds 433 00:47:51,766 --> 00:47:55,238 and feel that it has returned being different thanks to it. 434 00:47:55,423 --> 00:47:59,076 No, I'm not sorry, but... You must be crazy. 435 00:47:59,255 --> 00:48:02,020 You must have lost your mind, 436 00:48:02,201 --> 00:48:06,632 allow yourself to go crazy, because This is an impossible task. 437 00:48:10,447 --> 00:48:14,314 After the pressures of the classical world, Keith retired to his study 438 00:48:14,494 --> 00:48:18,149 to make your own music multi-instrumental. 439 00:48:19,853 --> 00:48:22,508 When he recorded �Spirits� in 1985 440 00:48:22,693 --> 00:48:28,932 a reaction occurred against the "legitimate" musical world. 441 00:48:32,062 --> 00:48:34,364 I almost had a nervous breakdown, 442 00:48:34,547 --> 00:48:38,696 but instead I came here and I started recording this. 443 00:48:38,877 --> 00:48:42,461 There are parts of Spirits that I can listen again and again, 444 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,911 because they have something. 445 00:48:45,089 --> 00:48:48,137 It's another world different from world in which I listen 446 00:48:48,318 --> 00:48:51,114 and transports me to another place. 447 00:48:58,084 --> 00:49:01,598 This study is located on Native American soil. 448 00:49:01,776 --> 00:49:05,289 I just picked up a flute and I started playing. 449 00:49:05,467 --> 00:49:07,698 Or a drum. 450 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:12,029 It started to sound like it belonged to where I live. 451 00:49:13,062 --> 00:49:18,342 It was the first time I felt like I had music really from my house. 452 00:49:42,237 --> 00:49:46,244 In the 70s Keith played with frequency other instruments. 453 00:49:54,481 --> 00:50:00,032 It's like an orchestrator who wants to hear everything at once. 454 00:50:01,033 --> 00:50:06,035 I like to play instruments so I can Hear the sound I have in my head. 455 00:50:06,236 --> 00:50:09,850 I haven't studied them enough. But I like how I play the soprano sax. 456 00:50:13,451 --> 00:50:18,518 He played amazing solos on his previous trio with Charlie and Paul Motian. 457 00:50:24,915 --> 00:50:29,458 It was a wonderful kind of concert. 458 00:50:29,636 --> 00:50:34,679 with all instrumentation imaginable in a threesome. 459 00:50:48,075 --> 00:50:50,123 When he came to this club, 460 00:50:50,310 --> 00:50:54,207 When I played with Tony Scott, He played the soprano sax. 461 00:50:54,393 --> 00:50:57,471 When he came to sit with It was us that touched. 462 00:51:02,875 --> 00:51:08,618 I wasn't that exposed to his playing. the piano until you start rehearsing. 463 00:51:10,803 --> 00:51:16,123 I don't want to brag, but the sound that I got from the saxophone... 464 00:51:16,305 --> 00:51:20,130 Every time I hear it I think why no one gets that sound. 465 00:51:20,314 --> 00:51:24,439 I still feel close to him, but I don't touch it anymore... 466 00:51:37,092 --> 00:51:39,676 In this special threesome with Keith 467 00:51:39,861 --> 00:51:43,262 We inspired each other a lot, listening to each other. 468 00:51:43,446 --> 00:51:46,453 That is the key to improvisation and spontaneity. 469 00:51:57,457 --> 00:52:00,082 Play music, get closer to music 470 00:52:00,262 --> 00:52:03,269 as if you had never played music before. 471 00:52:03,456 --> 00:52:06,858 You approach her for the first time every time you play. 472 00:52:11,105 --> 00:52:17,061 This trio had great capacity orchestral to create sounds and pulses. 473 00:52:17,246 --> 00:52:21,537 Perhaps because of their diverse origins They played so wonderfully together, 474 00:52:21,718 --> 00:52:25,725 for that wealth of knowledge musicals that everyone had. 475 00:52:35,289 --> 00:52:41,032 But my complete satisfaction with Keith It came when I played the piano, 476 00:52:41,216 --> 00:52:44,830 because he is an extraordinary pianist. 477 00:53:08,044 --> 00:53:13,577 In the first threesome with Paul and Charlie They were all much younger. 478 00:53:13,759 --> 00:53:18,757 The repertoire was mainly based in Keith's compositions. 479 00:53:18,940 --> 00:53:22,483 Sometimes other music, but basically Keith as a composer. 480 00:53:38,213 --> 00:53:40,838 He could pick up anything and touch it. 481 00:53:45,473 --> 00:53:47,815 In that group, 482 00:53:47,993 --> 00:53:51,536 especially in the quartet with Paul, Charlie and Dewey, 483 00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:56,150 the variety of what Keith did Compositionally and musically it was enormous. 484 00:54:17,422 --> 00:54:21,532 I have played with Ornette Coleman and with Charlie Haden. 485 00:54:21,718 --> 00:54:27,038 Meanwhile Charlie had started to play with Keith Jarrett. 486 00:54:27,219 --> 00:54:30,510 And he told Keith about me. 487 00:54:32,152 --> 00:54:37,785 I did a kind of audition for Keith and hired me. 488 00:55:01,501 --> 00:55:04,792 It was very exciting, but also a great challenge. 489 00:55:05,724 --> 00:55:11,438 For a year he played alternately with Keith and with Ornette. 490 00:55:15,214 --> 00:55:18,262 The difference was enormous: 491 00:55:18,443 --> 00:55:25,358 Ornette's music was freer, If you know what I mean. 492 00:55:26,677 --> 00:55:32,397 While Keith's was how he wanted it, how he wrote it. 493 00:55:33,679 --> 00:55:36,609 That's how I wanted it to be played. 494 00:55:38,410 --> 00:55:39,410 There was a tension between what was written 495 00:55:39,911 --> 00:55:43,511 And what each artist could put of himself in that interpretation 496 00:55:45,294 --> 00:55:50,827 But almost every time Dewey played In the foursome with Keith and me, 497 00:55:51,009 --> 00:55:54,369 He improvised with great freedom. 498 00:56:04,792 --> 00:56:07,659 When I write I do it for specific musicians. 499 00:56:07,845 --> 00:56:11,922 When I wrote for my American quartet He did it for Dewey, Charlie and Paul. 500 00:56:12,103 --> 00:56:16,164 It was more difficult to write for that quartet than for any other group. 501 00:56:19,844 --> 00:56:22,570 If I had given them the music to Dewey, Charlie and Paul 502 00:56:22,754 --> 00:56:26,046 and if they had given me what I thought it would sound on paper, 503 00:56:26,233 --> 00:56:29,069 it wouldn't be much different of what was written. 504 00:56:29,250 --> 00:56:33,216 They did that better than any group for which I have written. 505 00:56:33,403 --> 00:56:36,552 They were true individualists, 506 00:56:36,739 --> 00:56:40,988 who immediately developed something without anything being imposed on them. 507 00:56:50,383 --> 00:56:55,915 And we all knew the importance What does breathing have in music? 508 00:56:56,097 --> 00:57:01,094 It's about feeling the music with the naturally with which you breathe. 509 00:57:13,147 --> 00:57:18,214 I use the bow mainly for sounds, not melodies, but different sounds. 510 00:57:24,789 --> 00:57:27,626 He often picks up a tambourine and... 511 00:57:27,806 --> 00:57:30,179 Yes, at that time I did. 512 00:57:30,362 --> 00:57:34,228 He also played the musette, the chinese flute 513 00:57:34,408 --> 00:57:40,828 And sometimes Keith would play an instrument percussion, and it was wonderful. 514 00:57:48,329 --> 00:57:53,329 I think they might have confused us with an African tribe from somewhere, 515 00:57:56,430 --> 00:57:58,430 always improvising 516 00:57:58,831 --> 00:58:03,431 and we always did it listening what the other person touched 517 00:58:08,928 --> 00:58:13,855 Rose Anne, Keith's second wife, I heard the American quartet first. 518 00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:20,242 I lived in Boston sharing an apartment with two other women. 519 00:58:22,225 --> 00:58:27,050 They both studied music and they were good fans. 520 00:58:27,230 --> 00:58:31,590 One of them was at that time listening to a record: 521 00:58:31,772 --> 00:58:39,252 It was "Fort Yawuh" I think... and the cut was �Still Lives, Still Live�. 522 00:58:40,239 --> 00:58:43,317 I left my room and said: 523 00:58:43,503 --> 00:58:46,724 Wait, what is that? Hang on a minute. Silence everyone. 524 00:58:46,911 --> 00:58:49,142 I couldn't stop hearing it. 525 00:58:59,878 --> 00:59:02,604 Somehow he seduced her then for the first time with music? 526 00:59:02,788 --> 00:59:04,878 Absolutely, without a doubt. 527 00:59:11,879 --> 00:59:12,879 then I found out who it was 528 00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:16,080 and I went to listen to it 529 00:59:21,538 --> 00:59:24,728 In 1979, five years later of their first meeting, 530 00:59:24,910 --> 00:59:28,494 Rose Anne moved in with Keith to his home in New Jersey. 531 00:59:28,672 --> 00:59:31,720 Have you ever missed a concert? in all that time? 532 00:59:31,901 --> 00:59:33,284 Twice, I think. 533 00:59:33,464 --> 00:59:36,088 I couldn't help it in any way. 534 00:59:36,303 --> 00:59:41,582 One is because my goddaughter was born. and I had to go to the baptism. 535 00:59:44,969 --> 00:59:48,976 It happened exactly when Keith He played with the trio in Chicago. 536 00:59:49,157 --> 00:59:51,884 So I had to miss it. 537 00:59:53,407 --> 00:59:58,121 In the other I was backstage and I was very sick. 538 00:59:58,304 --> 01:00:01,596 I was there, but I had to hear it from behind the stage. 539 01:00:01,783 --> 01:00:05,296 So the only thing I really missed was to one in all those years. 540 01:00:10,643 --> 01:00:13,368 Alright, my role on tours: 541 01:00:14,370 --> 01:00:19,012 I do everything I can do with my hands. 542 01:00:26,501 --> 01:00:29,862 I take care of your clothes, all of them the nonsense that arises. 543 01:00:30,050 --> 01:00:33,563 I pack my bags, I unpack them, I prepare things for the tour. 544 01:00:33,741 --> 01:00:37,820 When we travel now, there are so many the things we have to carry... 545 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,008 I make lists and more lists and I get busy of everything I can. 546 01:00:46,531 --> 01:00:51,074 Things were very different in the 60s, on Keith's first tour of Europe. 547 01:00:53,588 --> 01:00:57,132 Jan Garbarek and his trio were of those who came to hear it. 548 01:01:01,314 --> 01:01:05,535 Keith often played in Scandinavia with Charles Lloyd 549 01:01:05,716 --> 01:01:09,259 and also with its various trio formations. 550 01:01:21,552 --> 01:01:28,538 Hear Keith Jarrett with the trio in 1968 in Oslo. 551 01:01:28,722 --> 01:01:31,347 It wasn't that well known then. 552 01:01:33,326 --> 01:01:36,586 He played every night for a week, or more. 553 01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,558 Paul Motian was then playing drums. 554 01:01:46,209 --> 01:01:50,893 We were absolutely stunned, It was a real marvel. 555 01:01:51,072 --> 01:01:53,302 You have everything at your fingertips. 556 01:01:53,486 --> 01:01:56,110 A lot of it has to do 557 01:01:56,289 --> 01:02:00,327 with knowing so much different music, also classical music. 558 01:02:06,139 --> 01:02:10,994 From that moment my dream was playing with Keith. 559 01:02:11,179 --> 01:02:14,158 I told Keith how much I liked him Jan's way of playing 560 01:02:15,338 --> 01:02:19,558 and how well I imagined them playing together, and the same thing happened to Keith. 561 01:02:20,540 --> 01:02:24,789 We went to the Molde Festival together to hear Jan Garbarek with his trio. 562 01:02:24,976 --> 01:02:26,712 We also hear from Jon Christensen. 563 01:02:25,093 --> 01:02:30,160 And suddenly, the director of ECM, Manfred Eicher had the idea 564 01:02:31,345 --> 01:02:36,909 of getting together with Keith Jarrett: Jan, Palle and me. 565 01:02:40,096 --> 01:02:42,962 That was the beginning. 566 01:02:59,438 --> 01:03:04,858 To what extent are they all written those pieces for Jan Garbarek 567 01:03:05,046 --> 01:03:07,235 and its special kind of sound? 568 01:03:07,424 --> 01:03:11,462 I don't really know, I asked Keith. 569 01:03:11,647 --> 01:03:17,390 I wrote basically for Jan, for your sound and for me. 570 01:03:20,575 --> 01:03:24,865 I knew that Palle and Jon They would feel very comfortable. 571 01:03:35,690 --> 01:03:40,939 That is why this music has a light beauty. 572 01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:45,411 It's really complex, but the effect is one of simplicity. 573 01:03:54,268 --> 01:03:58,659 With the European group I heard Jan in my head and knew it would work. 574 01:03:59,346 --> 01:04:02,566 And it was always better how I thought it would go. 575 01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:08,322 For me there is something in the way in which the piano sings, 576 01:04:08,502 --> 01:04:12,510 like a voice that sings or a wooden instrument. 577 01:04:23,841 --> 01:04:28,202 we improvised those things that sound like composites. 578 01:04:28,383 --> 01:04:32,321 We followed each other very closely musicalmente unos a otros. 579 01:04:32,502 --> 01:04:35,368 You could almost see what note I was playing 580 01:04:35,553 --> 01:04:40,127 and adjust your left hand to what I played on bass. 581 01:04:42,764 --> 01:04:45,419 Eso era para m� un aut�ntico lujo. 582 01:04:58,330 --> 01:05:04,781 He told me to play what I would like to touch, 583 01:05:04,967 --> 01:05:08,369 because I had no idea of this or that piece. 584 01:05:08,552 --> 01:05:11,420 Everything ended up being very spontaneous. 585 01:05:27,372 --> 01:05:31,027 One of the most dynamic compositions and rhythmically complex that played 586 01:05:31,206 --> 01:05:33,114 It was �The Wind Up�. 587 01:05:39,301 --> 01:05:44,298 Technically it is a bit fast for bass. 588 01:05:43,283 --> 01:05:48,320 But sometimes it was easier for me to memorize This is the easiest pieces. 589 01:06:00,384 --> 01:06:04,602 It was necessary to create a quartet feeling. 590 01:06:04,784 --> 01:06:09,822 Not a drummer playing a piece or a double bassist doing the same. 591 01:06:11,202 --> 01:06:16,128 But to be a quartet and present this piece. 592 01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:41,272 Jan had excellent hearing and he read very well at first sight. 593 01:06:41,455 --> 01:06:43,575 Our harmony was perfect. 594 01:06:43,762 --> 01:06:47,023 Its dynamic spectrum is much greater than that of most instrumentalists. 595 01:06:47,205 --> 01:06:49,295 Can play piano, so practically inaudible, 596 01:06:49,476 --> 01:06:53,130 and when it plays loud, it is louder of what no one can do. 597 01:07:08,968 --> 01:07:12,975 When they hear it again, How fresh does it seem to you both? 598 01:07:14,357 --> 01:07:21,241 Almost everything sounds very unworn to me. 599 01:07:25,388 --> 01:07:27,548 When we recorded it it was new, 600 01:07:27,730 --> 01:07:31,769 and hearing it now, it keeps ringing quite current even today. 601 01:07:48,444 --> 01:07:53,199 This only happens to you once in your life. 602 01:07:53,878 --> 01:08:00,833 I feel very happy to have been able make music with someone like that. 603 01:08:23,817 --> 01:08:28,178 All those beautiful ballads, and then �My Song�, which is a classic. 604 01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:32,615 It is one of the compositions that In the world of jazz they have eternal life. 605 01:08:33,064 --> 01:08:37,426 For Keith and me it was important meet when we did. 606 01:08:37,427 --> 01:08:45,412 We were very open to many things and we liked to take risks. 607 01:09:10,673 --> 01:09:12,832 What sacrifices have you made? 608 01:09:13,015 --> 01:09:17,053 due to the intensity with which Have you lived your musical life? 609 01:09:17,984 --> 01:09:24,757 It's so much that I demand of myself that the victim is my health. 610 01:09:26,502 --> 01:09:31,035 That is the greatest sacrifice. It's not a very healthy thing. 611 01:09:31,836 --> 01:09:37,579 It's not very healthy to be so much the ventriloquist as the doll. 612 01:09:39,263 --> 01:09:41,706 And keep them both alive. 613 01:09:43,289 --> 01:09:45,772 That's probably the answer. 614 01:09:46,033 --> 01:09:51,665 In 1996 Keith became so weak that he couldn't continue playing. 615 01:09:52,670 --> 01:09:55,859 I couldn't play; I could look at the piano, 616 01:09:56,042 --> 01:10:01,180 but I couldn't open the lid, It took too much effort for me. 617 01:10:01,665 --> 01:10:06,017 There were days when I couldn't get out of bed 618 01:10:07,418 --> 01:10:10,610 At that time everyone thought which was something psychosomatic. 619 01:10:10,911 --> 01:10:16,015 He was lucky to find someone I thought it was something else. 620 01:10:16,116 --> 01:10:19,275 Now they have discovered that this man was right. 621 01:10:19,276 --> 01:10:21,403 I remember saying to Rose Anne: 622 01:10:21,404 --> 01:10:24,740 I feel like aliens They would have invaded my body. 623 01:10:24,741 --> 01:10:28,786 According to that man from Nashville That's exactly what was happening to him. 624 01:10:28,987 --> 01:10:32,961 And when I spoke to him he didn't want to speak more than three minutes. 625 01:10:32,962 --> 01:10:35,127 Three minutes was the maximum. 626 01:10:35,128 --> 01:10:38,418 More than a year passed 627 01:10:38,605 --> 01:10:42,502 before it even started to think about doing anything. 628 01:10:44,688 --> 01:10:47,523 I thought I would never play again. 629 01:10:48,704 --> 01:10:52,036 He sat outside on the porch and looked at the grass. 630 01:10:52,217 --> 01:10:54,165 I couldn't do anything else. 631 01:10:54,348 --> 01:10:57,073 I often told him: 632 01:10:57,257 --> 01:11:00,872 "I don't know if we're going to do it." something more musically�, 633 01:11:01,055 --> 01:11:05,448 But if you don't, you should know that your contribution has been enormous. 634 01:11:05,634 --> 01:11:10,989 � And you don't have to feel bad for not having done enough. 635 01:11:19,678 --> 01:11:23,191 Maybe it was in December of '97 when he recorded �The Melody At Night�. 636 01:11:23,370 --> 01:11:27,590 But that was a monumental effort. for a Christmas gift. 637 01:11:27,771 --> 01:11:32,132 I couldn't leave the house and I didn't I knew what to give Rose Anne. 638 01:11:39,029 --> 01:11:44,025 And that Christmas day We gave ourselves these little boxes. 639 01:11:44,210 --> 01:11:46,299 My gift was in this tiny little box. 640 01:11:46,482 --> 01:11:48,783 His were simply a couple of DATs involved. 641 01:11:48,966 --> 01:11:51,550 It was only this size and with a little bow. 642 01:11:51,735 --> 01:11:53,501 I was stunned. 643 01:11:53,687 --> 01:11:58,684 I told the illness: I know you are here and I have accepted your presence, 644 01:11:58,869 --> 01:12:02,018 but I still move forward with this work. 645 01:12:04,205 --> 01:12:07,718 To start it I have to do it as intimate as possible. 646 01:12:09,138 --> 01:12:13,005 I burst into tears because it was too much for me. 647 01:12:14,185 --> 01:12:17,910 Too sweet and romantic. 648 01:12:18,035 --> 01:12:23,014 And the fact that he was playing everything I was capable of, 649 01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:29,992 a minute or two at a time, it's something That really moved me. 650 01:12:31,021 --> 01:12:33,141 It was not intended to be published. 651 01:12:33,328 --> 01:12:36,619 It was the first thing he touched. 652 01:12:36,806 --> 01:12:39,572 As soon as it became complex, I stopped. 653 01:12:39,752 --> 01:12:44,467 I always wanted to keep close to the song, sing it. 654 01:12:44,651 --> 01:12:49,204 So I was transforming my illness in a song. 655 01:13:04,551 --> 01:13:07,700 The disease taught me a lot. 656 01:13:08,668 --> 01:13:14,382 After two years Keith felt capable to play with Jack and Gary again. 657 01:13:18,164 --> 01:13:23,231 The more mature... no, forget it of that terrible word. 658 01:13:23,416 --> 01:13:27,990 The greater the experience, the deeper the simplicity. 659 01:13:38,962 --> 01:13:43,111 Time is the part complex of that simplicity. 660 01:13:57,208 --> 01:14:00,287 Do you write less now? 661 01:14:00,472 --> 01:14:03,915 So much less that I don't really write. 662 01:14:04,093 --> 01:14:06,142 Why? 663 01:14:08,672 --> 01:14:13,139 In part... I don't want to put too much weight on this, 664 01:14:14,718 --> 01:14:18,303 But it's partly because of my shoulder, my back and my arm. 665 01:14:18,480 --> 01:14:21,530 I really can't write well without starting to tremble. 666 01:14:21,710 --> 01:14:24,335 But that's not the real reason. 667 01:14:24,514 --> 01:14:28,876 When I was recovering of chronic fatigue syndrome, 668 01:14:29,057 --> 01:14:32,072 -I will give him that banal name-, 669 01:14:35,014 --> 01:14:38,233 when I was leaving I thought about that 670 01:14:38,420 --> 01:14:43,581 that it was such a miracle simply to be able to play something on my instrument, 671 01:14:46,235 --> 01:14:50,384 what to do with music something different from touching 672 01:14:50,565 --> 01:14:52,836 It was implantable. 673 01:15:13,313 --> 01:15:16,519 The miracle of touching It's all I need. 674 01:15:16,700 --> 01:15:21,091 I don't want anything else, I don't know how to explain it.