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Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music. In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient,〔() 〕 and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. In 2008, he was inducted into the ''Down Beat'' Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll. ==Early years== Keith Jarrett was born on May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania to a mother of Slovenian descent and a father of either French or Scots-Irish descent.〔Carr, Ian. ''Keith Jarrett,'' p. 1.〕 He grew up in suburban Allentown with significant early exposure to music. Jarrett possesses absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman.〔Carr, Ian. ''Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music'' (New York: Da Capo, 1992), p. 8.〕 Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions.〔Carr, Ian. ''Keith Jarrett,'' p. 7.〕 Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute. In his teens, as a student at Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Jarrett learned jazz and quickly became proficient in it. In his early teens, he developed a strong interest in the contemporary jazz scene; a Dave Brubeck performance was an early inspiration. At one point, he had an offer to study classical composition in Paris with the famed teacher Nadia Boulanger – an opportunity that pleased Jarrett's mother but that Jarrett, already leaning toward jazz, decided to turn down.〔Carr, Ian. ''Keith Jarrett,'' p. 17.〕 Following his graduation from Emmaus High School in 1963,〔(Topic Galleries – mcall.com )〕 Jarrett moved from Allentown to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended the Berklee College of Music and played cocktail piano in local clubs. After a year he moved to New York City, where he played at the Village Vanguard.〔 In New York, Art Blakey hired Jarrett to play with The Jazz Messengers. During a show with that group he was noticed by Jack DeJohnette who (as he recalled years later) immediately recognized the unknown pianist's talent and unstoppable flow of ideas. DeJohnette talked to Jarrett and soon recommended him to his own band leader, Charles Lloyd. The Charles Lloyd Quartet had formed not long before and were exploring open, improvised forms while building supple grooves, and they were soon moving into terrain that was also being explored, although from another stylistic background, by some of the psychedelic rock bands of the west coast.〔Carr, Ian, ''Keith Jarrett'', p. 32.〕 Their 1966 album ''Forest Flower'' was one of the most successful jazz recordings of the mid-1960s and when they were invited to play The Fillmore in San Francisco, they won over the local hippie audience. The Quartet's tours across America and Europe, even to Moscow, made Jarrett a widely noticed musician in rock and jazz underground circles. It also laid the foundations of a lasting musical bond with drummer Jack DeJohnette (who also plays the piano). The two would cooperate in many contexts during their later careers. In those years, Jarrett also began to record his own tracks as a leader of small informal groups, at first in a trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Jarrett's first album as a leader, ''Life Between the Exit Signs'' (1967), was released on the Vortex label, to be followed by ''Restoration Ruin'' (1968), which Thom Jurek of allmusic.com described as being "mainly considered a curiosity in his catalog".〔Jurek, Thom. (Allmusic "Keith Jarrett" biography. ) Retrieved 8 August 2015.〕 Not only does Jarrett barely touch the piano, but he plays all the other instruments on what is essentially a folk-rock album. Unusually, he also sings.〔 Another trio album with Haden and Motian, titled ''Somewhere Before'', followed later in 1968, this one recorded live for Atlantic Records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Jarrett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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