Keith Jarrett: Ritual cover

Keith Jarrett: Ritual

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Ritual is the only solo piano album by Keith Jarrett on which he doesn’t appear. Here, pianist, conductor, and frequent collaborator Dennis Russell Davies plays the eponymous 32-minute piece penned by Jarrett. The composer’s characteristic language bleeds through at almost every turn, but in being committed to a score, it opens room for Davies to regale us with his exhortations. This profound outlier in Jarrett’s discography stands alone as a monument to its creators, who by the end leave pieces of themselves in each other.

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