商品の情報
発売日
2026年11月06日
ジャンル
JAZZ
フォーマット
CD
構成数
1
製造国
輸入盤
レーベル
ECM
SKU
199957802925
規格品番
578292
商品の紹介
Roma: Live! is the fifth and final improvised recording from Keith Jarretts last solo European tour of 2016. In 2018 he suffered two strokes that left him unable to play. Roma: Live! follows ECMs releases of the other shows in the tour: Munich 2016 in 2019, Budapest Concert in 2020, Bordeaux Concert in 2022, and New Vienna in 2025. This album contains a ten-part improvised suite, and two standards in the encore. "Part I" opens in full pointillistic motion, as Jarrett rumbles across fragmented chord voicings and interwoven single lines. Its easy to hear this nearly 11-minute journey as spontaneous composition. There are fugue-like moments a la Bach, but the pianos movement and intricacy move afield to embrace color, varying dynamics, and canny textures in the final section. "Part II" offers a dark and rumbling left-hand pattern that repeats while right-hand accents fill and frame the vamp in a march-like progression. "Part III" commences as a gorgeous ballad. Its slightly angular, pillowy chords are folded into a complex right-hand harmony as both poles come together, evolve, and become something else without abandoning restraint. "Part IV" also begins as a lush ballad with right-hand melodic incursions before the left adds moody textural and harmonic dimensions. The pace increases temporarily as Jarrett issues lithe yet knotty tonal inquiries. The pianist employs gospel music in "Part V" balancing fluid blues, modern jazz, and folk sounds in one of the sets most appealing numbers. That inspiration leads Jarrett to explore various harmonic and melodic strategies in "VI," "VII" and "VIII." In the former one can hear traces from the folk song "Shenandoah," as well as Debussys Preludes. In the middle, liturgical music and lush balladry entwine in a song-like quality, while the latter embraces Italian opera and parlor and folk songs bound to classical harmony and musical reverie. "Part IX" rocks and rolls along a swinging stride and boogie progression that veers deep into the blues. It is the only track here that remains engaged to a particular song form. The soft and rumbling elliptical beginning of "Part X" is a query; it summons gentle tonalities with the right hand balanced by surly dark chord patterns from the right. They commingle, draw on one another, then separate, preparing for a forceful storm that moves into a tempered inquiry before it ends abruptly. Following audience applause, Jarrett returns for two encores, an intimate, strikingly beautiful rendition of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburgs "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," and the forlorn saloon ballad "Its a Lonesome Old Town" by Harry Tobias and Charles Kisco that borrows a line or three from the previous selection before it draws on the blues to carry it home. As Jarretts final live outing; Roma: Live! is sublime and, like previous chapters in this series, it stands out as the work of a master at the peak of his improvisational powers. ~ Thom Jurek
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現代音楽を代表するピアニストによる、2016年最後のヨーロッパ・ツアー・ライヴ録音最終作。
2025年リリースの『ウィーン・コンサート 2016』に続く、2016年にキース・ジャレットが行った、絶賛を浴びた最後のヨーロッパ・ソロ・ツアーから、5作目にして最後のコンサート・レコーディングであり、7月12日にローマのサンタ・セシリア・ホールでのライヴ収録。
この傑出したシリーズの中でもひときわ際立つ音楽で、この章に幕を閉じている。イタリアの日刊紙『ラ・レプッブリカ』がコンサート当時に簡潔に述べている。
「結局のところ、ジャレットが称えているのは時代を超えた儀式――ある意味では人類そのものと同じくらい古い儀式だ。彼は創造という行為、即興的な作曲に敬意を表し、それを観客の前で行い、発見の興奮を聴衆と分かち合っているのだ」。
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キース・ジャレット(p)
★2016年7月12日、オーディトリウム・パルコ・デッラ・ムジカにてライヴ録音
発売・販売元 提供資料(2026/09/11)