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| Track length: | 5:50 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Gershwin Publ. Corp. |
| Composer: | George Gershwin |
| ISRC: | DEB339967501 |
| Track length: | 7:10 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Estate of Mercer Ellington, Webster Music Co. |
| Composer: | Duke Ellington |
| ISRC: | DEB339967502 |
| Track length: | 2:47 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Universal Polygram Int. Publ. Inc. |
| Composer: | Jerome Kern |
| ISRC: | DEB339967503 |
| Track length: | 5:05 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Warner Bros. Inc. |
| Composer: | George Gershwin |
| ISRC: | DEB339967504 |
| Track length: | 5:21 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
| Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
| ISRC: | DEB339967505 |
| Track length: | 7:19 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Universal Polygram Int. Publ. Inc. |
| Cavelight Music | |
| Composer: | Oscar Levant |
| Keith Jarrett | |
| ISRC: | DEB339967506 |
| Track length: | 7:15 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Harms Inc. |
| Composer: | Arthur Schwartz |
| ISRC: | DEB339967507 |
| Track length: | 5:38 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | EMI Miller Catalog, Inc. |
| Composer: | Nikolaus Brodsky |
| ISRC: | DEB339967508 |
| Track length: | 5:52 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | Cavelight Music |
| Composer: | Keith Jarrett |
| ISRC: | DEB339967509 |
| Track length: | 2:57 |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Performer: | Keith Jarrett |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Publisher: | EMI Miller Catalog, Inc. |
| Composer: | Matt Malneck |
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| ISRC: | DEB339967510 |
Keith Jarrett - piano
Recorded 1998
Tender is the night on what is, perhaps, Keith Jarrett's most intimate album. It is comprised of solo piano renderings of jazz ballads and folk songs, recorded at home and played with unmistakable affection. Jarrett dispenses with the jazz soloist's conventional emphasis on dexterity, the "clever" phrase, the virtuosic sleight-of-hand. Instead he strips these songs to their melodic essence and, gently, lays bare their emotional core.
About Keith Jarrett:
Over the past 40 years, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times - universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius; a master of jazz piano; a classical keyboardist of great depth; and as a composer who has written hundreds of pieces for his various jazz groups, plus extended works for orchestra, soloist, and chamber ensemble.
Born May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Keith Jarrett began playing the piano at age 3 and undertook classical music studies throughout his youth; performing as a child in programs at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and at Madison Square Garden. He undertook formal composition studies at age 15, before moving to Boston to briefly study at the Berklee College of Music. While still in his late teens, arrangements were made to study composition in Paris with the great pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, but then canceled at the last moment in favor of moving to New York in 1964 to ...
