Title: Jarrett's debut long improvisation
Product review: Keith Jarrett is probably the greatest improviser of the 20th century. He can sit down and spin out original ideas from the top of his head for up to an hour (Lausanne concert).A tremendous melting pot of styles, you'll hear gospel, boogie, trance-like atmospheric passages, Romantic style melodies, atonal improvisation, contrapuntal improvisation, name a style and Keith Jarrett has absorbed it.Jarrett himself said of originality: "Jazz has built up this need to be unique. That's egotistical. As far as I'm concerned, the last thing you should try to be is original. If you sound like 80,000 others, as long as you don't imitate, it's still music."There are many hauntingly beautiful moments on this album. They don't move me quite as deeply as the Koln Concert, but all the solo concerts I've heard by Jarrett are outstanding. Buy it.
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