![News Added Oct 16, 2016 Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music. He started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis (his keyboard playing features prominently on Live-Evil and he also played electric organ on Get Up with It). […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/KJ-320x320.jpg "Keith Jarrett : A Multitude Of Angels")
Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.
He started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis (his keyboard playing features prominently on Live-Evil and he also played electric organ on Get Up with It). Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
A Multitude Of Angels will be a 4 CD set comprising the complete improvised 1st and 2nd sets of the following 4 solo concerts he performed in Italy in 1996, plus a few encores from certain of the concerts where the overall timing for each CD allows:
Modena – October 23, 1996 – Teatro Comunale
Ferrara – October 25, 1996 – Teatro Comunale
Torino – October 28, 1996 – Teatro Regio
Genoa – October 30, 1996 – Teatro Carlo Felice
The collection fits into the chronology of Keith Jarrett's many live solo recordings after 1995's 'La Scala', and mark the end of the first period of the solo concerts, documented on ECM recordings from the 'Bremen-Lausanne' set to 'Sun Bear Concerts', an era in which Jarrett's spontaneously developmental, free-flowing music could lead the receptive improviser to many different places.
“These were the last concerts I played having no breaks within each set,” Keith Jarrett explains in his liner notes. “The arc of the music is characteristically comprehensive: jazz is ever present here, alongside my deep closeness with classical music (modern and ancient, Ives and Bach).”.
They were also the last concerts he performed before he stopped performing for 2 years when he was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
