The Carnegie Hall Concert (Keith Jarrett album)

The Carnegie Hall Concert is a live solo piano double-CD album by the American pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in concert on September 26, 2005, at the Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall, New York City (USA) and released on a double-CD by ECM Records in 2006.[1]

The Carnegie Hall Concert
Live album by Keith Jarrett
Released	2006, September [1]
Recorded	2005, September 26
Venue	Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall, New York City (USA)
Genre	Jazz
Length	1:50:23
Label	ECM Records [ECM 1989/90]
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Radiance (2005) The Carnegie Hall Concert (2006) My Foolish Heart (2007)
Keith Jarrett solo piano chronology
Radiance (2002) The Carnegie Hall Concert (2005) La Fenice (2006)

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating, "This is a Jarrett solo set for the ages; it showcases, since his full return in 1997 (sic), his renewed and restless commitment to the music and to himself as an artist."[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]

Applause

The Carnegie Hall Concert contains applause, audience noise and Jarrett's interactions with fans totalling approximately 20 minutes of extra-musical time between tracks.[4]

"As on many of Jarrett's live discs, producer Manfred Eicher allows the audience's long and thunderous period of applause to overwhelm the end of many tracks" says reviewer Will Layman at Popmatters[5] and "folks tend to be divided about whether this is indulgence (Jarrett's, the arrogant artist) or psychology (Eicher's manipulation -- you are there) or simply padding out the CD's length."

Reviewer John Kelman at All About Jazz notes that "Curious, however, is the applause between tracks—in some cases nearly three minutes long, adding up to nearly nineteen minutes in total. Exciting as it may have been to be there, the lengthy audience noise does nothing but defeat the recorded program's continuity."[6]

Thomas Conrad at JazzTimes has his word stating that "This is a valuable addition to a distinguished body of recorded work. One complaint: With its five encores, the second CD contains more than 17 minutes of applause and 59 minutes of music. This ratio will test the patience of even the most worshipful Jarrett fans in search of a vicarious solo concert experience."[7]

Track listing

All compositions by Keith Jarrett except as indicated.

1. "Part I" - 9:56
2. "Part II" - 3:32
3. "Part III" - 4:44
4. "Part IV" - 5:19
5. "Part V" - 9:54
6. "Part VI" - 6:50
7. "Part VII" - 8:35
8. "Part VIII" - 5:19
9. "Part IX" - 8:25
10. "Part X" - 9:46
11. Encore: "The Good America" - 6:47
12. Encore: "Paint My Heart Red" - 8:30
13. Encore: "My Song" - 8:04
14. Encore: "True Blues" - 7:00
15. Encore: "Time on My Hands" (Adamson, Gordon, Youmans) - 7:30

Total effective playing time: 1:30:02 (the album contains 20:21 applause approximately)

Personnel

• Keith Jarrett – piano, Recording Producer

Technical Personnel

• Martin Pearson - Recording Engineer
• Richard Termine - Photography (concert)
• Sascha Kleis - Design
• Manfred Eicher - Executive producer

References

1. ECM Records Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert accessed May 2020
2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2011
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 771. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Richard Lehnert (October 2006 Keith Jarrett: Tokyo Solo & The Carnegie Hall Concert accessed May 2020
5. Will Layman (October 2006) Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert accessed May 2020
6. John Kelman (September 2006 Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert accessed May 2020
7. Thomas Conrad (October 2006 Keith Jarrett: The Carnegie Hall Concert accessed May 2020