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CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS

Sunday, April 1, 2012, 8pm Zellerbach Hall

Keith Jarrett Carnegie An Evening of Solo Piano Improvisations

There will be one 20-minute intermission and no late seating until intermssion.

Cal Performances’ 2011–2012 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo.

CAL PERFORMANCES 49 ABOUT THE ARTIST ABOUT THE ARTIST

ver the past five decades, Keith deeply personal and universal. Mr. Jarrett’s most their deeply felt tribute to the giant whom Mr. Jarrett’s many honors include a OJarrett has come to be recognized as one recent ECM solo piano CD is Rio, recorded live all three had played with in their early years. Guggenheim Fellowship; Président de la of the most creative musicians of our time— in Brazil in April 2011 and released in fall 2011 There are also ECM releases by République and Grand Prix du Disque awards universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsur- to worldwide critical acclaim. Mr. Jarrett’s acclaimed late-1970s Scandinavian from the Académie Charles-Cros; seven passed genius; a master of ; a classical In 1999, The Melody at Night, with You, a quartet featuring (saxophone), Deutscher Schallplattenpreis awards; and eight keyboardist of great depth; and a who solo piano studio recording of classic melodies, (bass) and Grammy Award nominations in the jazz and has written hundreds of pieces for his various was released by ECM, winning many “Best (drums). Belonging, My Song, and classical categories. He has received dozens of jazz groups, plus extended works for orchestra, of the Year” awards in Europe, Japan and the became bestsellers, influenc- “Artist” or “Album of the Year” awards from soloist and chamber ensemble. United States. In 2010, ECM released Jasmine, ing a generation of young jazz players in Europe The Times, The New Yorker, Time, Born on May 8, 1945, in Allentown, an duo recording by Mr. Jarrett and Mr. Haden, and the United States. Stereo Review, DownBeat, Billboard, CD Review Pennsylvania, Mr. Jarrett began playing the their first musical collaboration in over 30 years, In the late 1960s and ’70s, Mr. Jarrett made and Rolling Stone; was named “Best Classical piano at age three and studied which became one of the most acclaimed and a dozen recordings on the Atlantic, Columbia, Keyboardist” in Keyboard Magazine’s Readers’ throughout his youth. He took formal composi- bestselling jazz recordings of the decade. Impulse! and ECM labels with his original Poll (1991, 1993); and awarded “Best Classical tion studies at age 15, before studying briefly at For the past 29 years, Mr. Jarrett’s main con- American quartet with Mr. Haden, Mr. Motian CD” in the CD Review Editor’s Poll (1992) for the in . text for playing jazz has been in trio with and Mr. Redman: The Mourning of a Star, Birth, the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues; in addi- After a tentative period of sitting in at vari- and drummer Jack DeJohnette. El Juicio, Expectations, Fort Yawuh, Treasure tion to receiving dozens of awards from the in- ous New York jazz spots, Mr. Jarrett toured In January 1983, Mr. Jarrett invited Mr. Peacock Island, , , ternational music press. with and in and Mr. DeJohnette to New York’s Power Mysteries, Shades, The Survivor’s Suite and Eyes In December 2008, Mr. Jarrett was inducted 1965–1966, and with the Charles Lloyd Quartet Station studio to record “standards”—American of the Heart. into the DownBeat Hall of Fame, following his from 1966–1968. He soon established his own show and jazz tunes from the 1930s, ’40s and Classical music releases by Mr. Jarrett on many annual DownBeat awards over the previ- trio with bassist and drummer ’50s. At the time, it was considered passé for jazz ECM include J. S. Bach’s The Well-Tempered ous 30 years. , which in 1972 expanded to a musicians to concentrate on “standards” instead Clavier, Book I (piano) and Book II (harpsichord), In 1989 Mr. Jarrett was named an Officier quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist of original material, but Mr. Jarrett thought it Goldberg Variations (harpsichord), French Suites de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2007 . In 1970–1971, Mr. Jarrett was important to demonstrate that “music wasn’t (harpsichord), and Sonatas for Viola da Gamba Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des a member of ’s band, playing electric about the material, but what the player brings and Cembalo with (viola) and Lettres, two of the highest honors the French piano and organ—his last stint as a sideman. to the material.” Mr. Jarrett (harpsichord); plus piano record- Ministry of Culture bestows on artists. In 1996, Thereafter, Mr. Jarrett dedicated himself exclu- The original 1983 session produced the trio’s ings of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish sively to performing acoustic music as a solo art- first three ECM releases: Standards, Vol. 1 and Op. 87; Handel’s Suites for Keyboard; and two Academy of Music, joining Duke Ellington as ist and leader. Vol. 2, and Changes, which features free playing. volumes of Mozart Piano Concertos with the only the second foreign jazz musician to ever be In 1971, Mr. Jarrett made his first record- These seminal trio recordings were re-released Stuttgart Kammerorchester under the direction so honored. In 2002 he was named a Fellow of ing for of ECM (Editions of by ECM in 2008 as a special three-CD set en- of . the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Contemporary Music) Records. Their fruitful titled The New York Sessions, in celebration of the In May 2006, ECM released the DVD Keith and in 2003 he was awarded the Polar Music collaboration has produced over 60 recordings trio’s 25th anniversary. Jarrett: Tokyo Solo, a complete concert video Prize, presented by the King of in a to date, unparalleled in their scope, diversity Fifteen concert recordings followed on filmed in 2002. In fall 2008, ECM re-released special televised ceremony in Stockholm. In and quality. ECM: (Paris, 1985), Still Live four live trio concerts filmed in Tokyo between July 2004, Mr. Jarrett was awarded the Léonie The foundation of Mr. Jarrett’s ECM (, 1986), Changeless (U.S. Tour, 1987), 1985 and 1996: Standards I (1985) and Standards Sonning Music Prize in Copenhagen, Denmark. discography are his landmark solo piano re- Tribute (Cologne, 1989), Standards in II (1986) in a special two-DVD set, and Live at He is only the second jazz artist to receive the cordings, which have redefined the role of (Oslo, 1989), The Cure (New York, 1990), Live the Open Air Theater East (1993) and Tokyo ’96 Sonning Award since its founding in 1959; the the piano in contemporary music. Facing at the Blue Note (New York, 1994), Tokyo ’96 (1996) in a second two-DVD set. first was Miles Davis in 1985. You, Solo Concerts: Bremen and Lausanne, The (Tokyo, 1996), Whisper Not (Paris, 1999), Inside In 2005, Euro Arts released the DVD, Köln Concert, Staircase, , Out (London, 2000), (Tokyo, : The Art of Improvisation, a full- Invocations: The Moth and the Flame, Concerts 2001), The Out of Towners (Munich, 2001), My length documentary directed by British film- (Bregenz), Paris Concert, , Vienna Foolish Heart: Live in Montreux (Montreux, maker Mike Dibbs that includes extensive inter- Concert, La Scala, Radiance, The Carnegie Hall 2001), (Juan-Les-Pins, 2002) and views with Mr. Jarrett, as well as , Concert and Paris/London—Testament incorpo- Yesterdays (Tokyo, 2001). Mr. Haden, Mr. Peacock, Mr. DeJohnette and rate a broad spectrum of musical idioms and In 1991, two weeks after the death of Miles Mr. Eicher. languages—classical, jazz, ethnic, gospel, folk, Davis, the trio went into the studio for the first and pure sound—resulting in music both time in eight years to record Bye Bye Blackbird,

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