Keith Jarrett - Interview + Speech at NEA Jazz Masters Awards 2014

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Excerpt from NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony & Concert on Jan 13, 2014
Source: new.livestream.com/jazz/neajaz...
Keith Jarrett is giving an acceptance speech that is about his definition of music and his opinion of what the most important for a musician in life is.
I found that his idea of "free yourself, but I don't believe that there is a specific fixed way" is very similar idea of 大道無門(The Great Way(Tao) is gateless) in Buddhism, even though he has said that he's religiously influenced by George Gurdjieff, an esoteric Christian mystic teacher.

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  • @dejanrafajlovic
    @dejanrafajlovic9 жыл бұрын

    I have never heard so much honesty, vulnerability and spontaneity in a speech...

  • @NYCBG

    @NYCBG

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ni ja, brate imenjače.

  • @GreenOrchid9

    @GreenOrchid9

    2 жыл бұрын

    Met him 1970s and been to his concerts🎶🎵🎶💻⏰

  • @ericwilhelm2941

    @ericwilhelm2941

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly my thought

  • @pnovaone
    @pnovaone9 жыл бұрын

    Keith is enigmatic, interesting, odd, wonderful, and human,... and his music is extraordinary. Glad he has existed.

  • @m-l7127
    @m-l7127 Жыл бұрын

    Keith Jarrett is a national treasure.

  • @jonnreyna1

    @jonnreyna1

    Жыл бұрын

    Living legend!

  • @Damonm68
    @Damonm689 жыл бұрын

    The Tao of Music, it can't be talked about it can only be experienced.

  • @vladding1377
    @vladding13773 жыл бұрын

    "My left hand knows what to play" - Damn.. that hurt hearing that, knowing what we now know.. I regret not seeing him live when he played Carnegie Hall a few years back.. Be well, Keith.

  • @andradas9688

    @andradas9688

    2 жыл бұрын

    that statement by Keith Jarrett still puzzles me. His control of harmony, voicing, melody, counterpoint is amazing. He basically gives this more generic example of how he is not really controlling the music itself, in this case, his left hand, but I find that hard to believe. There are certain things that are mechanical, but not really at this level of control. He is truly a master of controlling the sounds on the spot with the uttermost sense of beauty.

  • @OtoMagaldadze
    @OtoMagaldadze6 жыл бұрын

    "...this music that's in the air, that is ready to be played at all times." - That's exactly what kind of feeling I have always had. You don't 'create' music, you 'discover' it, which is there, in the space-time. Not like I consider myself a composer or a musician, though.

  • @brettprice527

    @brettprice527

    2 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly Ahmad Jamal talks about how jazz is a music of discovery and those discoveries give you energy.

  • @dankg55
    @dankg552 жыл бұрын

    I bet if he was born 300 years ago, we still would have heard of him until today.

  • @DaveBassDotCom
    @DaveBassDotCom10 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Just "wow." He "gets it." He gets the musical spirit. I believe Joni Mitchell got it too, in her own way. And Neil Young. And Errol Garner. And others. But few can articulate it like Keith. And ever fewer are gracious enough to try to articulate it for the rest of us, to put a light on the path. I am thankful to God for Keith Jarrett.

  • @arc236

    @arc236

    7 жыл бұрын

    yeah, I totally agree. Really interesting what he says about his left hand just knowing what to play.

  • @allegroschoolofmusic4424

    @allegroschoolofmusic4424

    6 жыл бұрын

    I just wish he had given more credit to his mentor the great Bobby Hojack

  • @stephen0793

    @stephen0793

    5 жыл бұрын

    totally agree with you about Joni Mitchell!

  • @spacegupta71

    @spacegupta71

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same I love Joni Mitchell greatest songwrite of our time.

  • @postatility9703
    @postatility9703 Жыл бұрын

    I admire what he said about audiences."...I need them more than anyone....all I want them to do is to try to concentrate..."

  • @seop1721
    @seop17217 жыл бұрын

    Masters are just true students.

  • @YACEB33

    @YACEB33

    7 жыл бұрын

    👌✨

  • @baptistewxpolpodcast3339

    @baptistewxpolpodcast3339

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wonderfully accurate way to put it !

  • @axeman2638

    @axeman2638

    5 жыл бұрын

    amen to that brother.

  • @GlaucoLima

    @GlaucoLima

    2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely

  • @javidhuseynov3379
    @javidhuseynov33792 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the great privilege to be among Keith's music listeners!!!

  • @olecranonrebellion9976
    @olecranonrebellion99767 жыл бұрын

    I love you keith. a man of truth, and music.

  • @michswags
    @michswags5 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE the NOISES YOU MAKE !!! Since age 16...now 61...evokes tears STILL of glee...acceptance...joy..departure...bitter irony...a Kaleidescope of feelings and thoughts..memories..Youre Blessed and you Bless others with your overflow and sweet gentility...Thankyou ever so much Keith

  • @effsixteenblock50
    @effsixteenblock506 жыл бұрын

    Overly philosophical? Hardly. So many players can get the nuts & bolts of music pretty much down. All the requisite scales, harmonic concepts, repertoire etc. Then the real work begins. It's often an internal battle. Being able to consistently go to that place, just like he said, to be able to let go and let it happen. It can be the biggest obstacle and often takes the most struggle to overcome. To play fearlessly. He's not being overly lofty - he's being honest.

  • @docnelson2008
    @docnelson20089 жыл бұрын

    Keith is always interesting, some would say opinionated, but he talks about the creative process in a refreshingly different way to just about anybody else. He is a master musician and he has been influential.

  • @jerrychetty2524
    @jerrychetty25242 жыл бұрын

    Oh man, thank you, what a great genius, I came here after Rick Beato said that if you don't know Keith Jarrett you don't know music

  • @michaelmattice4986
    @michaelmattice49866 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing!!!...In all the years I've listened to and been moved by Keith's music I don't ever recall hearing him speak...So for me, this was a truly unique experience:)

  • @postatility9703
    @postatility9703 Жыл бұрын

    Choosing Kenny Barron to make the award presentation was a perfect choice.In his playing and as a human being, he is class personified.

  • @Marius1988Roma
    @Marius1988Roma6 жыл бұрын

    What a great man. Great and very important teachings for everyone in his speech. Even for people who are not musician. Just for everyone. Love to Keith

  • @davebenson1504
    @davebenson15042 жыл бұрын

    Awesome... It was an amazing few minutes listening to a Jazz musician link words the way a jazz musician might play... THANK YOU!

  • @RCrosbyLyles
    @RCrosbyLyles21 күн бұрын

    I needed to hear this. Thank you, Keith Jarrett.

  • @tmaddrummer
    @tmaddrummer7 жыл бұрын

    Keith will change my playing. Blessings Keith, and your dear Mom at 94 at that time.... This has been a priceless experience!

  • @1955drv
    @1955drv5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @StringsOfAndersen
    @StringsOfAndersen9 жыл бұрын

    Great communicater - one of the best that I have ever heard

  • @FlowEckurt
    @FlowEckurt4 жыл бұрын

    thanks so much for uploading 🍀

  • @gabyguala
    @gabyguala3 жыл бұрын

    Love you forever Keith Jarret. Thanks to YOU!!!

  • @BlossomVpiano
    @BlossomVpiano Жыл бұрын

    What an inspirational speech! Thank you Mr Keith Jarrett.🙏🙏. Legendary jazz pianist Keith jarrett quotes from this video: 1:04: "when I'm out there playing the piano, it's like my body knows what to do... if you tell it what to play, you're STOPPING it" "Stopping it, is stopping from playing something better than I can think of" (**In other words, to play from awareness/ consciousness/ infinite silence/true self!!**) "You can be educated to play piano scales.....etc, but you are still zero until you let go of what holds you back!" "In Jazz, the narrative is what carries the music forward and the narrative is the playing". "FEEL IT and DO IT". "Let music comes THROUGH your body". **Since May 2022, I have started playing piano the way Mr Keith Jarrett described. I started AWARENESS based 'infinite silence' meditation by Philip Wade (Insight Timer app, it's FREE!) In Jan 2022. Since May, I was surprised that I was able to improvised from pure consciousness (WITHOUT self judgement, self criticism, etc). Basically placing my hands on the piano and just let them do what they should do...... playing at MY level and MY ability, improvise so much better than if I tried to play via my limited self (mind). Not only my music is evolving, so is my life.... way less anxiety, depression...... This is a life long journey. A journey is BEing, living in the PRESENT MOMENT. BLESSINGS to you Mr Keith Jarrett

  • @sandraeckelhofer
    @sandraeckelhofer6 жыл бұрын

    Keith is so cute, so adorable. I love him deeply. i mean it.

  • @respectfullymama

    @respectfullymama

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me too :)

  • @EugeneSkeef230650
    @EugeneSkeef23065010 жыл бұрын

    Profoundly beautiful and perspicacious!

  • @tranquilityandpeaceforever7250
    @tranquilityandpeaceforever72502 жыл бұрын

    Keith would be an amazing teacher who would stand by and demonstrate the thing he wants to communicate without words.

  • @sheskimusic
    @sheskimusic Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Keith Jarrett. 🙏

  • @williamjackson6705
    @williamjackson67052 жыл бұрын

    Totally geeking out. Kenny Barron introducing Keith Jarrett. Two of the all-greats on the same stage.

  • @mdtcmeditango
    @mdtcmeditango10 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. One hundred years ahead.

  • @AmbientWalking
    @AmbientWalking3 жыл бұрын

    I love Keith Jarrett.

  • @ziadelhelou2788
    @ziadelhelou27884 жыл бұрын

    You are truly a jazz master even when u talk u talk jazz. U jump from idea to idea, u talk about ure self, incoherent, my mother berklee Coltrane and kicked out off a gig in one sentence,thats jazz. Intellectual and u think of every word and then u say that u don't have to think like all jazz players.u are great in what u do but what u do is not the only thing. Jazzz is not the only thing in the air. Ure honest and I'm honest I wish u luck and good health.

  • @maracuja55
    @maracuja558 жыл бұрын

    The most interesting speech about music and about being a musician I've heard . Kenny Werner's book " effortless mastery" follows that path.

  • @1610austin
    @1610austin6 жыл бұрын

    a great example of ... the greatest musicians on the planet .. can be the most humble and honest . metheny too

  • @mrsblue3011
    @mrsblue30112 жыл бұрын

    God bless you Keith!

  • @dimitriskaraganis
    @dimitriskaraganis9 жыл бұрын

    thanks for sharing ...grate!

  • @allegroschoolofmusic4424
    @allegroschoolofmusic44246 жыл бұрын

    he tries to like the best people that he knows, I think that is the most admirable trait of his playing

  • @zefonk
    @zefonk5 жыл бұрын

    So damn wonderful.

  • @driggerfireon5760
    @driggerfireon5760 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliance at display, he entire talk about music is spiritual at it’s basis

  • @telaim
    @telaim2 жыл бұрын

    This man is beautiful!

  • @jamesvalko6998
    @jamesvalko699810 жыл бұрын

    My hero. Genius.

  • @dwainjones1494
    @dwainjones14947 жыл бұрын

    A True Great Musician and Beyond!

  • @IvanMelon
    @IvanMelon Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!

  • @Conradical2006
    @Conradical20064 жыл бұрын

    Keith Jarrett is like my spiritual father.

  • @vpod78
    @vpod786 жыл бұрын

    Blessed One

  • @PaGoO
    @PaGoO4 жыл бұрын

    PURE GOLD

  • @ericwilhelm2941
    @ericwilhelm2941 Жыл бұрын

    He is so very special

  • @CharlieTheShiner
    @CharlieTheShiner9 жыл бұрын

    awesome!

  • @freejazzbone
    @freejazzbone8 жыл бұрын

    Jarrett is being sincere!

  • @sharonaldridge3332
    @sharonaldridge33326 жыл бұрын

    Endearing...I worked at moving through the spaces KJ moved on from, a subject, a reminiscent... an attempt to articulate the what of music.. his. I feel fulfilled... and await for that piano and his fingers to move my body...and my mind.

  • @sandraeckelhofer
    @sandraeckelhofer5 жыл бұрын

    16:58 "(...) but of course, in real life when you're saying something for the only time you get a chance to say it... and you forget it... naaa it's not so good." so cute, OMJarrett! I so love this man.

  • @postatility9703
    @postatility9703 Жыл бұрын

    So truthfully philosophical. We are lucky to still have him although a stroke robbed him of his ability to play.

  • @MrOliverTube
    @MrOliverTube4 жыл бұрын

    perfect words

  • @JungleYT
    @JungleYT5 жыл бұрын

    LOVE this man, next to George Duke and Herbie Hancock - My Hero...

  • @tomekp95
    @tomekp954 жыл бұрын

    that speech left me speechless

  • @deacon8754
    @deacon87542 жыл бұрын

    I love the answer about why he makes the noises when he plays …

  • @radiokid2
    @radiokid210 жыл бұрын

    I like Keith because he has a strong work ethic too...

  • @paxwallacejazz

    @paxwallacejazz

    3 жыл бұрын

    Funny nobody ever thinks mentions this normally. David Holland said a very parallel thing regarding this idea of hard work. Creative intelligence is knowing what to work on it's so simple yet not really.

  • @Zasztowtles
    @Zasztowtles10 жыл бұрын

    He is a real master. Not each of us realizes it now. History would be the evidence.

  • @pdn-vd5om
    @pdn-vd5om7 жыл бұрын

    Try to concentrate- what is funny about saying so, is the difficulty we have maintaining concentration. Listen to the Koln Concert, and give the kids some celery sticks!

  • @dancalmusic
    @dancalmusic9 жыл бұрын

    Genius.

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz6 жыл бұрын

    All great artist try very hard to do just one thing. Tell the truth. When you ask a good artist a question of any depth at all 1st there will be a silence. Then you will experience the honest attempt to see what's up for them regarding your question right then and there in that context in that moment. That's how one plays jazz at a high level.

  • @dankg55

    @dankg55

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree. True artists are in love with authenticity and can't stand anything that doesn't reflect the truth.

  • @yotrakzproductions7324
    @yotrakzproductions7324 Жыл бұрын

    Profoundly honest my friend. Well said.

  • @sandraeckelhofer
    @sandraeckelhofer5 жыл бұрын

    beloved Keith Jarrett, adorable genius. he's such a god, and absolutely cute 😍😍😍 perfect in every way.

  • @unacarafea567
    @unacarafea567 Жыл бұрын

    Picasso and Dali come to mind when I listen to Jarrett.

  • @letsshred6944
    @letsshred694410 жыл бұрын

    Keith Jarrett Shreds

  • @jahthunder01
    @jahthunder0110 жыл бұрын

    COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH . On a serious note hes a fantastic musician.

  • @FelixDegenaar

    @FelixDegenaar

    9 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant! :-)

  • @flloyd

    @flloyd

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hee Hee

  • @manologonzalezmorillas258
    @manologonzalezmorillas2583 ай бұрын

    ❤️🙏

  • @AlexPGSV
    @AlexPGSV4 жыл бұрын

    unbelievable mindset.

  • @helenamaria710
    @helenamaria7103 жыл бұрын

    Amazing...!!! I wonder where he really came from!

  • @alilotfi7974
    @alilotfi79744 жыл бұрын

    8:30 gold !

  • @JungleYT
    @JungleYT5 жыл бұрын

    FOOTNOTE: I can't believe all the *hate* in the comments below... I seriously doubt that any of you could come off as good. Public speaking in general isn't easy. Also, most geniuses have been eccentric or difficult to *average* minds - From Einstein to Miles to Tesla.

  • @marsinearth1264

    @marsinearth1264

    5 жыл бұрын

    JungleYT maybe those are just haters who hate everything except their own preferences or people who are fond of pop-cultures which Keith criticized in the video, or...any reason. Welcome to this vicious and cruel world, btw.

  • @JungleYT

    @JungleYT

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@marsinearth1264 Well, all I have to say is "F*ck the world..." I started listening to Keith in the 1970s and even back then people were overly critical.

  • @FelixDegenaar

    @FelixDegenaar

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just to be clear: if you don't like his speech, you're a 'hater'. Gotcha.

  • @thatdudenamedmoe
    @thatdudenamedmoe10 жыл бұрын

    does anybody know where to find the recording he talks about at 9:32?

  • @athruzathruz
    @athruzathruz4 жыл бұрын

    I love listening to Keith playing the piano, him speaking, not so much,!!,

  • @jazzfan7491
    @jazzfan7491 Жыл бұрын

    absolutely refuses to be a "jazz" musician. just a musician. and one of the greatest ever.

  • @arc236
    @arc2367 жыл бұрын

    What an incredible guy. He might be right that we can't fully express music except by using music, but nevertheless it's really interesting to hear his ideas. I'd love to hear him interviewed / speaking more. Any good links, people?

  • @redinhodaflauta1269

    @redinhodaflauta1269

    4 жыл бұрын

    ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-keith-jarrett/

  • @jeffdawson2786
    @jeffdawson27863 жыл бұрын

    This is one of my favorite KJ videos. Thanks. “Why would I teach anyone to kill themselves?”

  • @markusrose9667
    @markusrose96679 жыл бұрын

    i doubt this is possible, but i wish he and Charles Lloyd would play together again. Keith never talks about his time with him, and maybe he doesn't think much of him...in any case...I love both men, then and now.

  • @juhanilempiainen4011
    @juhanilempiainen40119 жыл бұрын

    All we need in his concerts is concentration!

  • @eytonshalomsandiego
    @eytonshalomsandiego6 жыл бұрын

    This makes me appreciate him quite a lot more than before. Excellent lesson. Btw, if you check out the you tube of keith and chic corea playing mozart, you can by comparison, taking nothing away from chic, hear the difference, the improvisatory feel to keith's mozart, and his swing and lightness. in fact, i prefer keith's classical recordings to his jazz perhaps for that reason. but this talk makes me want to listen with a more open mind to his jazz and see what i might be missing. am i just turned off to his personality and not giving the music a chance?

  • @whoisthispianist194
    @whoisthispianist1949 ай бұрын

    My talent is so immense that I mustn’t stop myself from letting my hands play. My hands have extraordinarily musicality and talent. It’s amazing just how special and wonderful I really am. Sometimes I stand up when I am playing and fuck the piano for a bit, it draws a lot of attention towards me which I really must have. It would be unfair to call me a narcissist because I am so much better than that. People will think of me like Bach and Mozart, but possibility greater because I play jazz.

  • @user-bn7bv2zv2n
    @user-bn7bv2zv2n5 жыл бұрын

    this guy is genius

  • @anthonymoreno9019
    @anthonymoreno90196 жыл бұрын

    Keith Jarret my favorite rock piano- MAN wish he'd let A440 alone .......let's play....

  • @rik-keymusic160
    @rik-keymusic1602 жыл бұрын

    He’s a free spirit, not bound by what people think of him or his playing! The freedom we all are looking for … it’s a spiritual thing ! 🙏🍀

  • @guiladshmaya1
    @guiladshmaya110 жыл бұрын

    You can tell it was extremely difficult for him to talk in public, he hasn't done that for how long, actually? And, again, he turned to be a good improviser-speaking-even if it sounds to us often desorganised, sometimes not prepared and messy but still, i rather that than reading from some paper. All you critic, don't forget we are talking about someone who avoided interviews and standing in front of public for decades. The first thing has been mentioned several times before, though: music is there, you can reach out for it and find it or just keep looking

  • @barneymcall
    @barneymcall6 жыл бұрын

    It seems Keith used a forgotten sentence to illustrate that; its better to not cling to something you could say and get an perfunctory applause...but.... to happily let that thought GO!!!.. in the aid of illustrating the crucial nature of the present moment in music

  • @panchovilla9965
    @panchovilla99655 жыл бұрын

    WISH HE'D PLAY MORE OF MILES MUSIC. WHATEVER HE DECIDES TO PLAY HE IS MY MAN FOR THE A--4:40. KLONKINESS........

  • @Lemwell7
    @Lemwell75 жыл бұрын

    I just need them to NOT COUGH

  • @HenryWinehard
    @HenryWinehard9 жыл бұрын

    Textbook Autism Spectrum Genius.

  • @ipadmidiking
    @ipadmidiking9 жыл бұрын

    what a great speech...everything he says is 100% true..."masters"..what a joke!....he's right...there are only students...no masters....he makes some great points about improvisation..

  • @PaGoO
    @PaGoO4 жыл бұрын

    5:50

  • @katarzynazagorowska404
    @katarzynazagorowska404 Жыл бұрын

    00:52 -1:30, 6:18-9:50

  • @GreenOrchid9
    @GreenOrchid92 жыл бұрын

    🎶💻🎶📚🎶⏰😨😷🌅✌ great promo for the N.Y. public library 2022

  • @JoseFerreira-ht6mt
    @JoseFerreira-ht6mt10 жыл бұрын

    playing only with soul. the sound between notes unknown

  • @catherinezagoroska3843
    @catherinezagoroska3843 Жыл бұрын

    1:00- 2:30, 6:20-9:08

  • @jennifer86010
    @jennifer8601010 жыл бұрын

    'Funny how most actors who want to be singers can't really sing very well. 'Funny how most atheletes who want to be actors can't act. The same is true of musicians who think they are public speakers. How can the mind of a great pianist which is so well organized, fluid and lyrical when he's playing music, become so scattered, rambling and vague when it comes to delivering impactful points about the same music which has coarsed through his veins for the last half century? Keith said it himself... "music is something which can't be described in words."

  • @m.a.g.3920

    @m.a.g.3920

    3 жыл бұрын

    Music are not words. Are much beyond words..

  • @yelassinacoulibaly819
    @yelassinacoulibaly8192 жыл бұрын

    🌈❤️❤️❤️❤️👌👌👌👌💐💐💐🙏🥰🌈

  • @edocamera
    @edocamera5 жыл бұрын

    thank god nobody coughed

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