The Ventriloquism of Keith Jarrett


I've been a fan of his for eons and have many of his recordings.  When I first heard him making his vocal noises during parts of his playing, I thought, 'WTF is that damn noise!?!"  Hated it, but got used to it.

Just now, I thought I'd put on one of his live concerts via YouTube to listen to while working.  On video, I hear his vocalization but don't really see his mouth moving at all.  

It's like he's a ventriloquist or something. 

Not important at all, but thought I'd share anyways.

Cheers, all. 

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Showing 2 responses by wspohn

The 55 version is fine - much less intrusive vocalization.  And I would rather listen to either artist with vocalizations than not listen to them at all!

IIRC, Oscar Peterson also did this a bit.

The first one that turned me off with vocalizations was Glenn Gould.- it ruined one of his recordings of the Goldberg Variations for me.