Keith Jarrett The Melody At Night, With You

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• Keith Jarrett’s album “The Melody At Night, With You” breaks with the tradition of its predecessors in some respects. First, it was not recorded at a concert, but at home in the pianist’s New Jersey studio. Second, it’s not about improvisation as a compositional process, as Jarrett’s solo concerts were, but about carefully crafted melodies: love songs by Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern and Oscar Levant, and interpretations of folk songs like ” My Wild Irish Rose “and” Shenandoah “
  It is a standards solo album, but of a very different character than the recordings of the “Standards Trio” with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, which was marked by a joy of playing. This makes for interesting comparisons, as Keith Jarrett often played the pieces and has a