Never really cared for Jarrett anyway. Couldn’t ever imagine Oscar Peterson (twice the musician Jarrett is) behaving like such a degenerate.
http://jazztimes.com/reviews/concert_reviews/detail.cfm?article=10479
Even given all of those musical power points, though, it would be disingenuous—and just plain bad reporting—to dodge the elephant in the room this year, the matter which left the loudest buzz around the festival. This was the year of Jarrett’s Last Stand.
Although he has long known for the bizarre disconnect between the sublime depth of his music and the petty tirades at the microphone (which inevitably sour the sublimity of the performance), Jarrett crossed some implicit line of human decency at this festival. Before playing a single note, Jarrett hit the microphone, ranting, “Somebody tell those a–holes to put down their f—ing cameras…†then threatening to “leave this goddamned city†if he saw a single flash during the set. Before the traditional encores, a couple of flashes—likely clicked in vengeance—irked Jarrett and the show abruptly ended.
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The next morning in the press room, the announcement came that festival director Carlo Pagnotta had officially, permanently banned Jarrett from the festival, with which Jarrett had a 30-plus year relationship.
haha they banned Jarrett
k-nar
July 30, 2007, 9:39am
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hahaha
Fuck what a drama queen. I have never cared for him, ever since I saw on TV broadcast of a concert. His music bores me too death not to mention the facials which would make da dong bluzh.
