If you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

 Quote of the Week 19

"If you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop."
― Keith Jarrett (*May 8, 1945)


Happy birthday to the master of perfect improvisation.*

Triggered by unforeseen and hence unplanned circumstances during a recent vacation trip that reminded me of the story behind "The Köln Concert" bestselling solo-piano album ever ― in any genre ― covered here:







"If I did The Köln Concert again, there'd be so much less ornamentation. It's all been transcribed and exists as sheet music now, but that just shows me all the sections I'd cut out. One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop."

Source: "There is no plan" (The Guardian, October 2006)


*See The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts for those that don't agree with the juxtapostion of "perfection" and "improvisation".

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