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    Post Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano

    Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano - The pathbreaking musician reveals the health issues that make it unlikely he will ever again perform in public.

    While we could've done without the political commentary, this is really sad....

    The last time Keith Jarrett performed in public, his relationship with the piano was the least of his concerns. This was at Carnegie Hall in 2017, several weeks into the administration of a new American president. Mr. Jarrett — one of the most heralded pianists alive, a galvanizing jazz artist who has also recorded a wealth of classical music — opened with an indignant speech on the political situation, and unspooled a relentless commentary throughout the concert. He ended by thanking the audience for bringing him to tears.

    He had been scheduled to return to Carnegie the following March for another of the solo recitals that have done the most to create his legend — like the one captured on the recording “Budapest Concert,” to be released on Oct. 30. But that Carnegie performance was abruptly canceled, along with the rest of his concert calendar. At the time, Mr. Jarrett’s longtime record label, ECM, cited unspecified health issues. There has been no official update in the two years since.

    But this month Mr. Jarrett, 75, broke the silence, plainly stating what happened to him: a stroke in late February 2018, followed by another one that May. It is unlikely he will ever perform in public again.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/a...e=articleShare


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    A stroke would negatively impact your fine motor skills. Too bad. Big talent.

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    After my motorcycle accident in 2009 I couldn't play the piano either. But then again, I couldn't play it before the accident either!

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    maybe he should have kept his damn rant to himself. Him doing without his piano is a damn sight less a travesty than his desire for the rest of us to live under tyranny.

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