What accolade has not been heaped upon the 80-year-old Keith Jarrett and the music he has bestowed upon the world? So, without embarrassing and overbearing hyperbole, New Vienna is another of those very special recordings Jarrett sculpts from silence with an integral artistry and frequency that, some fifty-odd years after he began this solo journey, still stuns greater minds.
Recorded live in July of 2016 at Austria’s storied Musikverein (home of the Vienna Philharmonic and the main stage of the Vienna Mozart Orchestra), Jarrett bares his soul and stirs his audience with a majesty befitting his grand European hosts.
It is all here. All Jarrett. The cadence. The sway. The melody. Always the melody, pulling you like a soft ocean tide to the next turn in the road.