Keith Jarrett
Day 24
#46 – Keith Jarrett (b.1945). American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music. Albums include: Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne (1973), The Köln Concert (1975) and Sun Bear Concerts (1978).
Jarrett has commented that his best performances have been when he has had only the slightest notion of what he was going to play at the next moment. He also said that most people don’t know “what he does”, which relates to what Miles Davis said to him expressing bewilderment – as to how Jarrett could “play from nothing”. This idea of something emerging from nothing and the power of his improvisation was distinctive and became the main starting point. After experimenting for some time I didn’t think it was working. I wanted to make more of his solo concerts. Having the word solo emerging from the darkness into light, together with the typeface and the ‘l’ looking like a ‘1’ looked far more powerful.
2.5 hours
One of the early ideas to express something emerging from nothing.
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘The Koln Concert’.