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Name: Keith Jarrett
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8 May 1945 |
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States |
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Piano |
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| Keith Jarrett is considered among the most important living jazz piano players. He was born into an ethnically mixed family as the oldest of five boys. He started taking piano lessons at the age of three and played his first concert at age nine, and from age 12 onward played professionally from time to time.
Keith Jarrett grew up with a classical musical background, but in his teens he learned about jazz and immediately excelled in it. Moving from his hometown, he came to Boston, there attending the Berklee School of Music and on the side playing some cocktail piano. After about a year, he went to New York, and struggling hard to get other musician's attention, he got a chance to sit in at the Village Vanguard, and Art Blakey immediately hired him to play with his Jazz Messengers band. After a little time he became one of the members in the Charles Lloyd Quartet. That band came to an end though, but he was discovered by Miles Davis who heard him on a club in New York. Miles Davis almost forced him to play in his group as a keyboardist. The group also featured Chick Corea on keyboard. Keith Jarrett left after some time ready to focus on his own career more |
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