# New solo performance by Keith Jarrett, released for his 75th birthday: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/05/09/new-solo-performance-by-keith-jarrett-released-for-his-75th-birthday-video/
- Published: 2020-05-09T19:42:15+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Today is Keith Jarrett’s birthday, but he’s the one bearing a gift.**

To be more precise, ECM Records has released a new track by the celebrated pianist:
a sensitive treatment of “Answer Me, My Love,” recorded at the Béla Bartók National
Concert Hall in Budapest, Hungary on July 3, 2016. It’s the first taste of an album
scheduled for release sometime in the fall.

Seasoned Jarrett fans will recognize it as a classic solo encore, softly radiant
and emotionally absorbing. In fact, the song — a standard originally titled “Mütterlein,”
and most famously recorded with its English lyrics by Nat King Cole — has been a
staple of his repertoire for the last decade or so. In 2010 I reviewed a trio concert
at Carnegie Hall, singling it out as a highlight.

If this new version sounds faintly familiar, it might be because you’ve spent time
with Jarrett’s most recent album, _Munich 2016, _which was recorded about two weeks
later on the same tour, and includes another treatment of the song.

The 2016 solo tour was actually the last time Jarrett took to the road. But he has
remained relevant even in absentia. His tune “The Windup” appears on recent or forthcoming
albums by Branford Marsalis, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Julian Lage. (It’s a piece 
from the book of his Belonging Quartet, whose drummer, Jon Christensen.)

As a piano touchstone, of course, his influence can be heard far and wide. And his
stature only seems to keep growing; in 2015, when Jarrett turned 70, _The Guardian
_ran a piece by Geoff Dyer hailing him as “our greatest living musician.”

However you feel about that superlative, it’s a good occasion to celebrate Jarrett
and his sprawling body of work — in a solo setting, with his Standards Trio, with
both 1970s quartets, or in duologue with Gary Burton or Charlie Haden.

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