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Keith Jarrett – Pastel Morning

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Occasionally nature does something really neat, like sunrise yesterday morning. Given that English weather is scientifically proven to be crap 98% of the time, it seemed worth grabbing the camera to capture the moment.

The good soundtrack for these photos might be Pastel Morning, an intriguing piece by Keith Jarrett off the early ECM release Ruta and Daitya. Soon after this recording Jarrett, threw all his electronic toys out of his crib and embraced acoustic instrumentation forever. But Jarrett’s performances in electronic settings make you wonder what he could have produced if he hadn’t unplugged himself…

(OK, maybe he wouldn’t have recorded The Survivors’ Suite, in which case it was a very good thing Jarrett quit the electricity habit).

(NB. These photos don’t work very well on a black and white computer.)