If a contrives, old with new, well-structured to interweave so gallantly with experimentally varying music that this goes without audible caesura of equip, then that is certainly Keith Jarrett. Surely he wanders "playing" through the eras of music history, while the individual fragments into a larger whole connecting, and in his distinctive improvisational manner. The "Paris Concert" represents a culmination of his artistic career. The great storyteller Jarrett ("use your ears as eyes") played with this work, a mixture in contrapuntal style a la Bach and ecstatic fulminant (occidental tinged) Improvisation, an epic of light and shadow, joy and sorrow, and all this in the beauty of harmony and disharmony. The "Paris-concert" seems almost organically by the alternation of eruptive expressiveness and meditative passages. This contrasts stand out from one another and do not require the same time, in order to exist. The recurring ostinato motif of his left hand is like a pulse, the insistent continuity demands. The structure is alive, it breathes formally and one thinks that this could go on like this forever as if a wave where a wave crest followed by a trough and vice versa. But everything organic must eventually cease to exist, and so makes it Jarrett after he created it, and die again, like the fate of all life. It goes by slowly growing weaker, only to disappear in the diffusivity. Not only that, he inspired by two wonderful additions the Parisian public. A ballad called "The Wind" and a "Blues". The Blues stands out here, because in spite of the Spartan Tonvorrats created Jarrett a groove that stimulates an ultimatum to swing and Jarrett genius proves. Keith Jarrett come back to this recording a monument that many will cast its spell. All in all, a CD that should be in every CD-closet!
