My Song Sheet Music Keith Jarrett Pdf
Roseanne Devon
Keith Jarrett has long been one of my piano heroes, his album The Melody at Night, With You an all-time favourite recording. I am absolutely delighted that, 20 years after its release, Schott Music have brought out a complete sheet music transcription of the ten album tracks, by Friedrich Grossnick.
Pianist Keith Jarrett is perhaps still best known for his legendary Kln Concert recording. Notching up global sales of more than 3.5 million, the Kln Concert album is not only the best-selling solo recording in jazz history, but also the best selling piano recording ever made.
Since its release in 1975, Jarrett has built on this legacy with dozens of solo releases, most being live recordings of wholly improvised concerts, as well as dozens of albums with his Standards Trio.
Dedicating the album to his second and then-wife, Rose Anne, Jarrett departs here from the improvised aesthetic of his solo concerts to focus on delivering finely-crafted covers of jazz ballads and folk songs, his playing throughout shot through with sincerity and unmistakable affection:
If Schott sound a little tongue-tied here, I find myself somewhat in the same position. This is a publication which so accurately and brilliantly delivers on its promise of providing an authoritative transcription that there are no other words!
Mr. Tufte,I'm new to your ideas and concepts about visual design and have just finished reading "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint." Not to diminish the strength and validity of your work presented, I was most impressed with your John Prine quote.I am always amazed at the people who love John Prine. I am a very big fan of John Prine. John could write of me, "And if I wrote a song, She'd know ever single word." My most recent concert was October 24, 2003 in Evansville, In., with many of his family members in the audience. I'm already preparing for a show this year, just need to pick a city. My questions are:Do you attend any of the live shows?Who's getting regular play on your CD at this moment? Any John Prine? -- Christine (email) "Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios," quoted in The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, comes from John Prine's "Sam Stone". It is nice that someone noticed. I've been to 4 JP concerts, once where he opened for a then-collapsing Cowboy Junkies, and most recently about a year ago in New Haven after his hip operation where he was wonderful. There was a failed effort to have him help celebrate my birthday at one point. I first heard him at Princeton in the early 1970s singing "your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore" and "illegal smile". The line "if I wrote a song, she'd know every single word" is among my favorites, along with the song about Sabu the Indian child actor and "The Great Compromise". There are many other good lines. The title of my Envisioning Information comes in part from Prine's line "envisioning romantic scenes after midnight" from "Donald and Lydia". I'm traveling a lot right now (well, actually enjoying Key West at the moment) and have no JP CD's on the road, but do have Dylan's Time Out of Mind, Ferron's Driver, Keith Jarrett's The Melody at Night With You, Pete Malinerni, A Very Good Year, Ryoji Ikeda, Op. 1-3 (2000-2002), Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, and some late Beethoven quartets by the Emerson String Quartet.In his Who's Who bio, John Prine describes himself as "President, Oh Boy Records"? A self-publisher!The 28-page version of "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" has another line of poetry; the opening page epigraph under the title is "Not waving but drowning" by Stevie Smith from her poem by the same name. Stevie Smith and John Prine in fact have a fair amount in common (straightforward style, humor within the pain, a personal experience accompanied by summary lessons) in their work. Smith's Poem "Drugs Made Pauline Vague" sounds like a John Prine song. She also wrote a good poem about Copernicus which I can't find right now. -- Edward Tufte
Key West? You're in luck if you're going to be there for a few weeks. John is playing in Key West, February 27th and 28th. Great venue only 1,000 seats at the Key West High School Auditorium. I wouldn't be surprise if another Key West favorite, Jimmy Buffett, shows up for the show. Especially since JB is recording a new CD at his Sprimp Boat studio.John opened the Evansville show with "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore". It was fantastic and the first time I'd heard it.Enjoy the sunsets and have some key lime pie! -- Christine (email)
In the early 1980s, I went to a folk festival in western Illinois with my sister, who was singing in an autoharp band at the time. In the campground that night, the people in the campsite next to us sat up all night singing nothing but John Prine songs. And I don't think they repeated any of them. How could one person write so many songs, and so many GOOD songs, at that? -- Brad Hurley (email)
John Prine's first record in 1971 contained these songs, so many classics:Illegal Smile, Spanish Pipedream, Hello In There, Sam Stone, Paradise, Pretty Good, Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore, Far From Me, Angel From Montgomery, Quiet Man, Donald And Lydia, Six O'Clock News, Flashback Blues See -- Edward Tufte
Here is Stevie Smith's Copernicus poem: THOUGHT IS SUPERIORThought is superior to dress and circumstance,It is thought proud thought that sets the world in a dance.And what is the greatest thought since the world begun?Copernicus's discovery that the earth goes round the sun...See what I mean about Stevie Smith and John Prine? -- Edward Tufte
I love the way John weaves the wisdom of life into his lyrics - chorus fromHello in ThereYa' know that old trees just grow stronger,And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.Old people just grow lonesomeWaiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."Then ends the song with:So if you're walking down the street sometimeAnd spot some hollow ancient eyes,Please don't just pass 'em by and stareAs if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."Looking forward to his show in Cleveland next month. -- Christine (email)
John Prine's new record, Fair and Square, is excellent. For me, probably his best. The record includes his old concert song about the clown who puts his make-up on upside down with the line about how he comes down the stairs and "assumes the body of a person you presume who cares."And it also includes a touching first-person song about an older performer trying to find his way one more time and getting on with it (which doesn't get any easier). -- Edward Tufte
If you like John Prine, I think you'll like this thread This isn't about John Prine, but if you like John Prine, I think you'll like this thread:Ask reddit: What are some good artists I should download and listen to, that won't put money in the pocket of RIAA, and other greedy middlemen?Here are some of the more potent links in the thread, but the discussion also includes opinions from recording artists, and links to dozens of bands.
- RIAA radar, a resource to screen music for RIAA affiliation before buying.
- CD Baby, an independent CD distributor with an average of 91% going back to the artists.
- eMusic, an online independent music retailer.
- Magnatune another online independent music retailer, label, distributor, I'm not sure what, exactly, but I like it.
- Mutopia project, a source for free sheet music.
- Merge records, a label.
- K records, another label.
- Rightous Babe, Ani DiFranco's label.
There\u2019s a mixture of harsh atonality and hymn in the head of \u201CMoving Soon,\u201D and that\u2019s like Ives, but truthfully I hear little of Ives in most of Jarrett\u2019s output. However, the pianist has repeatedly cited Ives as an inspiration to get away from it all, live outside the scene, and work on his music in seclusion.
In discussion, it turned out that Paul Motian gave Bill Frisell the sheet music to \u201CThe Alcotts\u201D and asked Bill to learn it on guitar. That didn\u2019t happen, but perhaps there is some sort of Jarrett/Motian/\u201DAlcotts\u201D lineage which is more than a notion.
The idea for \\\"Circus '68, '69\\\" came to me one night while watching the Democratic National Convention on television in the summer of 1968. After the minority plank on Vietnam was defeated in a vote taken on the convention floor, the California and New York delegates spontaneously began to sing \u201CWe Shall Overcome\u201D in protest. Unable to gain control of the floor, the rostrum instructed the convention orchestra to drown out the singing. \\\"You're a grand old flag\\\" and \\\"Happy days are here again,\u201D could then be heard trying to stifle \u201CWe Shall Overcome.\u201D To me, this told the story, in music, of what was happening in our country politically. Thus, in \\\"Circus\\\" we divided the orchestra into two separate bands in an attempt to recreate what happened on the convention floor.
Ornette Coleman, \u201DBroken Shadows\u201D from Crisis (1969) A big tune is heard over and over again as the horns and drums go wild. What is more Ivesian than that? As a bonus, the drummer is the very young and unprofessional Denardo Coleman, who gives the music the \u201Centhusiastic amateur\u201D quality so prized by Ives.
Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, \\\"As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls\\\" from As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1980) This long suite celebrating Americana starts with crowd noise that the keyboard has to surmount, a theatrical effect that is in the Ives tradition. Lyle Mays said of this album: \u201COne of the devices that film makers have available to them is the juxtaposition of opposite elements to achieve more nuanced and complex results.\u201D This Mays quote also perfectly describes what we mean when we call something \u201CIvesian.\\\"
The Art Ensemble of Chicago with Roscoe Mitchell, \u201CWalking in the Moonlight\u201D from The Third Decade (1984) This sentimental ballad was written by the father of Roscoe Mitchell. While Ives surely would have appreciated the sentimental ballad on its own, there\u2019s a truly Ivesian bonus: the horns are (intentionally) out of tune to the point that they recall the Three Quarter-Tone Pieces. An \u201Ca-wooga\u201D bike horn goes off once in a while, Ives would have liked that as well.
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