Rio (Keith Jarrett album)

2011 live album by Keith Jarrett

Rio

Live album by

Keith Jarrett

Released| November 2011[1]
Recorded| April 9, 2011
Venue| Teatro Municipal
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genre| Jazz
Length| 90:25
Label| ECM
ECM 2198/99
Producer| Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
| Jasmine
(2010)  | Rio
(2011)  | Sleeper
(2012)

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Keith Jarrett solo piano chronology
| Paris / London: Testament
(2009)  | Rio
(2011)  | Creation
(2015)

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Rio is a live double-album of solo piano improvisations by Keith Jarrett, recorded at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro on April 9, 2011 and released on ECM in November that same year.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsAggregate scores

Source| Rating
Metacritic| 90/100[2]
Review scores
Source| Rating
Allmusic| [3]
The Australian| [4]
The Daily Telegraph| [5]
The Guardian| [6]
The Independent| [7]
Jazzwise| [8]
Popmatters| [9]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars, stating, "After one listen, it becomes obvious Rio is indeed very special. It puts on aural display Jarrett as a virtually boundless musician, whose on-the-spot, wide-ranging ideas are executed with astonishing immediacy and dexterity; this music is passionate, poetic (often songlike), and stands outside the confines of genre... since nothing approaching what is here actually exists in Jarrett's recorded catalog. Rio is therefore the new standard by which the pianist's future solo recordings will be judged, and perhaps also sets the bar for any other player who attempts the same."[3]

The Guardian's John Fordham said, "Rio represents Jarrett at his most exuberant."[6]

Writing for PopMatters, Will Layman noted, "Rio is the most brilliant Jarrett solo recording in recent memory. Rather than improvising in a longer, more rambling form, Jarrett works here in shorter statements, each focused and concise. In 15 very different miniatures, Rio demonstrates the pianist's astonishing facility for generating not only grooves or settings but also developing webs of melody and counter-melody. From free playing to blues to gospel to aching ballads, Jarrett covers a vast landscape of piano."[9]

The Independent's Andy Gill said, "these 15 pieces sketch an entire world of music, coloured by the locale, and shifting between the smoothly lyrical and the propulsively rhythmic, with Jarrett's familiar, pulsing left-hand figures providing a stolid foundation anchoring the serpentine runs of his right hand."[7]

The Independent on Sunday's Phil Johnson compared it to Jarrett's most successful release, stating, "The second of the two discs is a lyrical triumph to equal the Koln Concert, intense drama and emotional catharsis captured through long-haul, improvised performance."[10]

The Daily Telegraph's Ivan Hewett was less enthusiastic, observing, "There are good things here, but nothing especially new."[5]

## Track listing

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Disc #1

1. Part I - 8:40
2. Part II - 6:52
3. Part III - 6:00
4. Part IV - 4:13
5. Part V - 6:25
6. Part VI - 7:00

Disc #2

1. Part VII - 7:28
2. Part VIII - 4:58
3. Part IX - 5:02
4. Part X - 5:01
5. Part XI - 3:20
6. Part XII - 6:09
7. Part XIII - 7:03
8. Part XIV - 5:40
9. Part XV - 6:34

Music by Keith Jarrett

## Personnel

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* Keith Jarrett – piano

production

* Keith Jarrett – producer
* Manfred Eicher - executive producer
* Martin Pearson - engineer (recording)
* Mayo Bucher - cover
* Daniela Yohaness - photography
* Sascha Kleis - layout

## References

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1. ^ a b ECM Records Keith Jarrett: Rio accessed May 2020
2. ^ "Rio – Keith Jarrett". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
3. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 15, 2011
4. ^ Mcbeath, John (November 26, 2011). "Rio (Keith Jarrett)". The Australian. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
5. ^ a b Hewitt, Ivan (November 11, 2011). "Keith Jarrett: Rio, CD review". Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
6. ^ a b Fordham, John (November 3, 2011). "Keith Jarrett: Rio – review". The Guardian. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
7. ^ a b Gill, Andy (November 11, 2011). "Album: Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM)". Independent Print Limited. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
8. ^ "Keith Jarrett – Rio ★★★★★". Jazzwise. October 14, 2015. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
9. ^ a b Layman, Will (November 29, 2011). "Keith Jarrett: Rio". Popmatters. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
10. ^ Johnson, P., Album: Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM), The Independent on Sunday, November 6, 2011

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Discography

Studio albums|

* Life Between the Exit Signs (1968)
* Restoration Ruin (1968)
* Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1971)
* The Mourning of a Star (1971)
* Facing You (1972)
* Birth (1972)
* Expectations (1972)
* Ruta and Daitya (1973)
* Belonging (1974)
* Treasure Island (1974)
* In the Light (1974)
* El Juicio (The Judgement) (1975)
* Back Hand (1975)
* Death and the Flower (1975)
* Mysteries (1976)
* Shades (1976)
* Arbour Zena (1976)
* Hymns/Spheres (1976)
* Staircase (1977)
* Byablue (1977)
* The Survivors' Suite (1977)
* My Song (1978)
* Bop-Be (1978)
* The Celestial Hawk (1980)
* G.I. Gurdjieff: Sacred Hymns (1980)
* Invocations/The Moth and the Flame (1981)
* Standards, Vol. 1 (1983)
* Changes (1984)
* Standards, Vol. 2 (1985)
* Spirits (1986)
* Book of Ways (1987)
* Bridge of Light (1994)
* The Melody at Night, with You (1999)
* Jasmine (2010)
* No End (2013)
* Last Dance (2014)

Live albums|

* Somewhere Before (1969)
* Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne (1973)
* Fort Yawuh (1973)
* The Köln Concert (1975)
* Sun Bear Concerts (1978)
* Eyes of the Heart (1979)
* Nude Ants (1980)
* Concerts (1982)
* Standards Live (1986)
* Still Live (1988)
* Dark Intervals (1988)
* Personal Mountains (1989)
* Changeless (1989)
* Paris Concert (1990)
* Tribute (1990)
* The Cure (1991)
* Vienna Concert (1992)
* At the Deer Head Inn (1994)
* Standards in Norway (1995)
* Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note (1995)
* La Scala (1997)
* Tokyo '96 (1998)
* Whisper Not (2000)
* Inside Out (2001)
* Always Let Me Go (2002)
* Up for It (2003)
* The Out-of-Towners (2004)
* Radiance (2005)
* The Carnegie Hall Concert (2006)
* My Foolish Heart (2007)
* Yesterdays (2009)
* Paris / London: Testament (2009)
* Rio (2011)
* Sleeper (2012)
* Somewhere (2013)
* Hamburg '72 (2014)
* Creation (2015)
* A Multitude of Angels (2016)
* After the Fall (2018)
* La Fenice (2018)
* Munich 2016 (2019)
* Budapest Concert (2020)
* Bordeaux Concert (2022)

Compilation albums|

* Mysteries: The Impulse Years 1975–1976 (1996)
* The Impulse Years: 1973–1974 (1997)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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