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Title: Warning -- Dissonance Ahead
Review: Keith Jarrett's music is (usually) a gift to the world. Is there anyone else whose head and fingers seem as directly sourced to the essence of what music is and why humans like it? Two of my favorite pieces of recorded music are by Jarrett: Live at the Blue Note box set, and Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues Op. 87 -- both simply ethereal works. But Inside Out is, well, awful. No discernable melodies. Unpleasant dissonance reigns. You know, Pat Metheny -- who I similarly think is as close to the muse as Jarrett -- does this stuff occasionally too. Maybe it's me. I'm not an accomplished musician. Accomplished musicians seems to rave about each other when they do this atonal stuff. To me, it's annoying noise. What a disappointment.
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