Keith Jarrett shut up!

[cubdog]

I love Keith Jarrett. One of my all time favorites. But his incessant vocalization gets old. Funny, he doesn't do it on classical recordings. Luckily too, not all of his jazz recording are marred by this. When he gets going though it's hard to ignore.

cubdog

 

[Midfi deluxe]

I love Keith Jarrett. One of my all time favorites. But his incessant vocalization gets old. Funny, he doesn't do it on classical recordings. Luckily too, not all of his jazz recording are marred by this. When he gets going though it's hard to ignore.

cubdog

For me it’s like with Glenn Gould, if the performance is good enough I can filter out the vocalizing. But I don’t like it. It must have driven their recording engineers crazy.

Reminds me: Once on the NYC subway, I was listening on the headphones to Leonard Bernstein conducting a Haydn symphony. During the slow movement, I start hearing some guy next to me moaning in this creepy way. I’m thinking there’s a pervert on the train. ara: Turned out it was Lenny -- he was getting a little too into the Haydn.

 

[Isotonic]

I find it very annoying and a bit of a finger in the air to the audience. He is infamously arrogant.

I know he's not the first. Errol Garner was the first I believe. But with him it was shtick. Back then, his ability to play complex music without written notes was considered savant, not a true achievement. So he played the part. It was a way of coping with the deeply oppressive racism that existed at the time.

 

[DC]

Oscar Peterson was another famous one ...