Jarrett's Solo concerts -- Bluetrain asks, readers answer
Today, while I was listening to Jarrett’s Vienna Concert for the n-th time, I asked myself, which of his famous solo concerts is the best one? Everyone knows the great Köln Concert, and most people find it the best solo piano recording ever made, but Jarrett himself once said, that he thinks Vienna Concert is his best solo performance. I don’t know. I like Paris Concert as well, and I admire The Carnegie Hall record. Well, Bluetrain readers, what do you make of it? Which one is the best?
Did you people know, that Chick Corea once made an album called “Children’s Songs”? Well he did, and I remember myself listening to those records a long time ago, while I was a kid. I heard three pieces from that album on the radio, and couldn’t get them anywhere in Poland. Luckily for me and all other Corea fans, ECM re-released the album last year, so that everyone can enjoy these marvellous miniatures.
The composition presented here is, however, the last piece on the album, also being the only one not performed by Corea solo, but together with violin and a cello, and it’s called “Addendum”.