| Part of Series | Thoughts in Sound |
| Length | 05:00 |
| Licensor | Echoes |
| Producer(s) | John Diliberto |
| Formats | Interview, Limited Series, Special |
| Topics | Art, Music |
| Produced | January 3, 2008 |
| Added to PRX | January 7, 2008 |
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A piano iconoclast reveals a music vision based in the inner vibrations of sound
http://www.echoes.org/ThoughtsinSound.html
Producer and host: John Diliberto
Executive Producer: Kimberly Haas
Funding: PRX Reversioning Project, The Grammy Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
January 22: 2008: 25th anniversary of the "Standards Trio" of Keith Jarrett with drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Gary Peacock. On Jan. 22, 2008 their first 3 albums will be released as a commemorative 25th anniversary box set.
Opinionated, Thoughtful, Unusual
English
Most artists are content to play the notes, but there's a handful of composers and musicians who work at the level of sound itself, turning meaning, finding nuance, charting new hitherto unheard directions in music through a contemplation of the meaning of sound itself. In a series of five non-narrative features, four composers and one music movement grapple with sound from its spiritual to its theoretical dimensions. The artists include John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Keith Jarrett and in a Minimalist Meditation, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, LaMonte Young and John Adams.
In episode 4, we hear from piano iconoclast Keith Jarrett. In the 1970s the piano and Keith Jarrett were synonymous. His
solo piano albums like the Koln Concerts established his reputation for free-form, melodic improvisational flights. Since then he's recorded with orchestras, clavichords, his Standards Trio, and even a CD of over-dubbed impressions for flutes and hand drums called "Spirit." Here, Keith Jarrett reveals a music vision based in the inner vibrations of sound.
Thoughts in Sound is produced in three formats: a series of five five-minute, stand-alone features, a half-hour documentary, and an hour-long documentary that contains a companion half-hour of the artists' music to illustrate their words.
