This is an old recording from a 40 year old VHS; impossible to have a better quality of this video...

An exquisite My Song! So glad I saw him twice, once solo and once with the Standards Trio, both in the later years. Love him.

Fantastic video. I wonder how many hundreds of hours of amazing improvised music where never recorded at his house and lost forever. Jarret is one of the best musicians of the XX century.

I’ve just watched this for the first time and I listen to Keith Jarrett every day since a long time ago. I think it’s best interview of him I’ve ever seen.

This is why I love KZfaq so much. Still, even now, every week people post content like this we never knew existed. His responses here are enlightening and to see him in his home studio like this, where we know he spent countless hours engaged in this kind of music-making is nothing short of awe inspiring. Those 10 or however many minutes he knew he was to fill up are packed with a wealth of musical content beyond what even an experienced listener can fully process in real time, so it's almost unfathomable that he can channel this music through his body from wherever it exists in the universe. It makes him a rare genius and master who's sophistication renders him difficult to appreciate for probably more than 90% of all people out there. But fortunately the other 10% includes enough folks who are open to what he does that from them a sizable audience has assembled through his life to date. I feel he's one of the musicians that people will be listening to, celebrating, and marveling at for ages to come. Thank for this post!

This is a priceless document

Someone once joked he doesn't play the piano, the piano plays him! But seriously I think the grand piano gives back ideas in the surprising sounds he makes and it's a feedback thing. His harmony and dissonance progressions are absolutely unique and often in the former trio that doesn't exist any more, he regularly invented his own extended ending to "standards" and the other two musicians would stop playing and just listen to his journey as he signed a piece off. You could hear elements of Bach, Brahms and Schumann in those cadences and I found that spell-binding - and like a gospel choir the sound just pins me to the wall and I find time stands still - and I return to the world in the silence after his last note decays. It's actually spooky!

This is probably from Keith's appearance on the UK's South Bank Show, subtitled for a Swedish tv audience. I hope someone posts a better quality video of the whole show. In the meantime, thanks for posting this.

He is the most deeply thoughtful and significant musician of our time. It's scary how much amount of work he has poured into music. God bless him.

"So much of improvisation to me, involves the faithful daring and impulse of intuition. And the very second this feat is carried out, so vital toward the next event is the listening, which heralds the next attempt, through faithful daring and intuition toward the listening."wlp

It was nice of them to give him a Swedish TV. ;-)

KEITH JARRETT! This man is so in tune with Jazz and with improvisation that when you listening to the man all just sounds like a natural thing, nothing like any "hip" producer would come up with.

What a joy to see him play My Song:)

I feel like I am witnessing a jazz version re-incarnation of Mozart, Bach and Beethoven. Never saw him in person but hope to at Berkeley in October! What a treat.

Hats off to Keith Jarrett, imagine the concentration it takes to play as he does, no wonder he got fatigued. I just love his musical conversation. What I adore is just how beautiful and free his sounds are, He paints so many pictures. He certainly takes the listener on a journey. He probably got bogged down in complexity and then found simplicity had it's power and its own value. Hence the beautiful love song to his wife. I can imagine she cherishes his gift.

great, thank you. Precious document. He did not give many interviews I think.

What an inspiration he is. Thank god for Keith.

Music from Jarrett was absolutely extraordinary: it is a huge risk and it requires a huge amount of courage improvising in a long performance using such a density of notes... but he did. Plus, many of his melodic and armonic inventions are absolutely extraordinary. Such an amazing and genius mind. Thank you for donating your beautiful and powerful music!!

The best short interview/vid I've ever seen of Keith. Amazing.

Of all the musicians I've ever heard, Keith Jarrett is definitely one of them...

God sent... You could even see him still vibing at the close of this piece!

Great program! I remember seing this on Swedish television when young; the critic explaining how and why Keiths improvisations were accessible to the listener. But I suspect part of the program is lost, as it is cut short with no title or credits.

I never am bored or put off by Keith's music, but almost everyone else 'like' him, I am. Why is this? The man is so freakin' real!

Incredible. Just amazing. Riding the wave.

Thank you !

Thank you so much for sharing!!!

give this man a statue

Thanks very much for posting

pure gold this is, thanks!

I deeply appreciate him talking on the process

thanks for putting this up

Yes!!!! The greatest ever!!!!

What is being discussed here is so inspiring, at least to me, in that it tells anyone that when one has mastered their craft there ought to be freedom against the limitations of always planning and preparing what you have always told about how to deliver yourself and what pattern to follow to express your ideas. Thanks for the inspiration.

It would be fantastic if he put this opening improvisation on a CD.

what amazing playing, never heard any of that before. Thank you for posting

Jeez that's incredible. Thanks!

He's being very melodic here, and bluesy, despite the interviewer saying he could be obscure.

ty !

A genius. Fantastic. The biggest

wow thanx for posting !

Bravo!

best there was...is...ever will be,

unbelievable great musician.

such a cool groove, 11:56 !!!!!!

incredible, didn´t know this! Thanks so much!!!

Whoww thank you.

Lettin it go and letting it flow

He is so great Jarret occasionally sound a bit of Bach.

Genio puro e oltre

Sweet mercy. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Keith Jarrett is the finest musician on earth.

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Легендарные кадры видео, сохраняющие уходящее время Кейта Джаррета - джазиста, музыканта в период его расцвета. Блеск мысли в его глазах, генетическое чувство ритма, обворожительные музыкальные рисунки импровизации, торопящиеся за мыслью автора. Посмотреть и почувствовать слушателю и зрителю через кадры - это ценно. Спасибо.

Saludos del Pianista Javier Donado desde Colombia

14:20

Anyone know what year is this?

Ey he is PLAYING MY SONG!!! AND NOT HOW ITS SUPPOSE TObe played 😉

What year was this recorded? Amazing program :D

When was this documentary? What date??

« Le Verbe s’est fait chair, il a habité parmi nous » Jarrett est Musique !

Actually seemed fairly congenial in the interview.

“I am vast. I contain multitudes”

He could have twitch streamed his playing if he were to improv today

What year is this from?

Unbelievable

14:20 - can this be purchased anywhere? So beautiful!

10:00

Is the music at 2:30 just improv or an actual tune?

ok....

Now I've proof that aliens exist. He's not from this planet. Genius

Nice playing jerret. Why don't you tour with Chick , Hervey ?

Berkley or Berklee?

Oh Keith, what I wouldn’t give for a single finger bang from your wizardry digits

God gave him such an incredible gift but now he had a stroke and lost his left side so " God gives and He takes away ".

One day I'm gonna by tickets to a Keith Jarrett concert just so I can shout out, "Dude, do you know how much you once looked like Lionel Richie???" in the middle of one of his masterpieces.

I am used to go assist to concerts live when it’s about music of this highstanding quality. Aaaand..... i would be prepared to pay the concertticket worth 50$ US. With KZfaq this profession has clearly lost its economical basement to survive in a measured, sufficient and properly rewarded way. This is a worldwide blatant scandal PERIOD