Poetry Book Society RecommendationKeith Jarrett's dazzlingly lyrical new collection asks how we process violence when it's lionised in our language, on city street signs, in the edicts of a vengeful god. Its title borrowed from an unknown songwriter, this book is a palimpsest, layering known and unknown verses: those sung in Pentecostal churches or whispered in silent worship, texted to a 3am suitor or redacted from a eulogy. These poems are requiem and carnival: for the dead, the ...

Keith Jarrett is one of the most acclaimed pianists in the world. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated with many jazz and classical luminaries, and worked in many musical forms, but he is perhaps best known for his ground-breaking solo work. In the 1970s, Jarrett pioneered a new genre -- the concert-length improvisation – within which he has created some of the most distinctive, beautiful and enduring records of the past century. His Köln Concert (1975) is the bestse...

Among music lovers everywhere, Keith Jarrett is known as an artist of rare gifts. Here he brings those gifts to a captivating discussion of his work, especially the ineffable art of improvisation--or, as we termed it here, "jumping" (as in "jumping off the deep edge").