Paris Concert | ||||
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Released | April 1990 [1] | |||
Recorded | October 17, 1988 [2] | |||
Venue |
Salle Pleyel Paris, France | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 50:17 | |||
Label |
ECM ECM 1401 | |||
Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Paris Concert is a live solo album by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, recorded at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on October 17, 1988, and released on ECM in April 1990. [1]
In 1988 Jarrett toured Europe two times (June, October) offering 6 solo concerts. [5] Paris Concert was recorded during the second 1988 European mini-tour.
Richard Lehnert at Stereophile gave the album the "Recording of November 1990" award, stating:
This is Jarrett's most satisfying solo outing since 1982's Concerts.... The gorgeously deep, lush recording is, of course, closely multi-miked, with perhaps even some added reverb. But producer Manfred Eicher does this sort of thing at least as well as did John Culshaw, and probably better than anyone working today. I have no complaints, even if the piano is 12' wide. [6]
The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell states, "Jarrett pulls further away from the old rousing (and thoroughly American) gospel, blues and folk roots of earlier concerts toward a more abstract concept.... [His] virtuosic abilities are never in doubt, and he rarely flaunts his technique for its own sake, but one senses that the inspiration level is down; one doesn't come out of the CD all charged up as with many earlier solo concerts." [3]
All music by Keith Jarrett except as noted.