Description: "This English edition is a significantly extended and updated version of the German original as concerns important aspects of Keith Jarrett's life and work"--
Brief description: Wolfgang Sandner, born in 1942, studied musicology, modern history and Italian. For almost three decades, he has been active as music editor for the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He is professor at the University of Marburg, Germany and has penned portraits of such varied artists as Miles Davis, Heiner Goebbels and Arvo Part. Chris Jarrett was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1956 and, an internationally successful pianist, organist and composer himself, is Keith Jarrett's youngest brother. He teaches at the JohannesGutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany and tours with piano and organ recitals. He is married to the Croatian-American pianist Martina Cukrov Jarrett and has been residing in Germany since 1985.
Review Quotes: Reviews
In this major biography of pianist Keith Jarrett, Wolfgang Sandner not only classifies Jarrett's recordings within the history of jazz, music and culture, but he tempts us to listen in a new and deeper way, and he enables us to understand the music beyond the boundaries of emotional listening.
Wolfram Knauer, Director, Jazz Institute, Darmstadt
Reviews of the German edition:
Wolfgang Sandner has brilliantly disproved the notion that writing about music is as impossible as dancing architecture.
Jazzpodium
Sandner is exactly the right person for this meticulous and pioneering task. His perceptions are as wise and well-informed as they are enthusiastic and unerring.
Die Zeit
One is inclined to describe Sandner as this pianist's verbal alter ego. Like Jarrett, the cosmopolitan Sandner digs deeply into the material, displays virtuosity in comparisons taken from the spheres of art and cultural history, and can get as much caught up into hymnic Gospel fury with his meticulous characterizations as the great man does at the piano.
Die Welt