There's one movement that will be released with this album announcement. I just take my time and listen to them when I want to hear myself play solo. And I don't usually compare them one-to-one. At this moment in time, I don't even have anyone who can work my stereo system, because my wife is in Japan. How recently did you listen to the recording? I just remember that the audience was extremely graceful, and I assume the hall was fine. My memory - one thing you have with two strokes is, you're a two-cycle engine instead of a three-cycle engine. I'm not even sure I was saying what I actually experienced. I would think that's a national crime in France - to serve an artist an inferior meal in Bordeaux.Īhh. I'm still thinking about that unsatisfactory meal. Keith Jarrett's Bordeaux Concert - recorded at the Auditorium de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux on Jcomes out Sept.

I hope it's Bordeaux that I'm talking about. 'Cause every day I was doing walks wherever I was. Anyway, I remember there was a river next to the hotel, or across the street. Bordeux-esians? What do you call a person from Bordeaux? Bordeaux-ics. I don't want to say this to the Bordeaux-ians. The food, which also was unsatisfactory in a way. Not much - just the room I had in the hotel, which was unsatisfactory. What do you remember about Bordeaux during that tour? I think I'm always in dialogue with something other than what I've just played. Well, I'd have to listen to both of them again. Do you feel that the two are in dialogue with each other in some way, musically? Last time we spoke, we talked about the Budapest concert quite a bit. This was the concert right after Budapest. But I did listen to it several times along with the other concerts I did not release, which are Vienna and Rome. The something I succeed at is to not prepare. How much have you listened to the recording in preparation for the release? I've thought about calling you a few times to check in, and then I had an excellent excuse, because ECM is about to release Bordeaux Concert. Compared to what I have now, which is a right hand I try to assume is capable of something.

Well, that was the pure feeling of: if I look at my piano, I shouldn't play it. When you say that you relate this to chronic fatigue syndrome, how would you differentiate the two experiences? My mother having, and father having been that - and my grandmother. And I usually was fairly Christian Scientistic about it. The only thing I can relate this to is the chronic fatigue syndrome problem that I had. Well, I know that with these things, progress comes slowly. My right hand is not like my right hand was, and my left hand is not at all. So today I went walking down our private road to the beach across from the road, where there's a lake. And walking with and without a cane in different circumstances. Well, I don't know if I'd call it therapy, but I've been using my legs more. And how has recovery been? Have you been doing a lot of physical therapy? It's a beautiful place in the summertime. We've got flowers, plants, butterflies, birds, everything. I'm presently sitting on my front porch, which I now have called my office. Nate Chinen: It was September of 2020 when we last spoke. Recorded on July 6, 2016, a few days after Budapest, it's another balancing act of consonance and dissonance from a pianist whose blank-slate solo improvisations have always been valorized. Now, in addition to those bookends, ECM is preparing to release Bordeaux Concert. The conclusion of that tour had already been chronicled the previous year, on an album titled Munich 2016. Jarrett's longtime label, ECM Records, cushioned the devastating news with some extraordinary music: Budapest Concert, recorded at the beginning of his final European tour. That revelation, which I reported in a piece for the New York Times, shook Jarrett's worldwide audience, eliciting sympathy and concern along with sorrow over the end of an illustrious concert career. 'That's what I remember.'Īlmost two years ago, pianist Keith Jarrett shared publicly that he had suffered two strokes in 2018 and would likely never perform again. And I walked along that,' Keith Jarrett says of the tour stop captured on Bordeaux Concert. 'I remember there was a river next to the hotel, or across the street.

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