| Paris Concert | |
| Type: | live album |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Cover: | Paris Concert.jpg |
| Released: | April 1990[1] |
| Recorded: | October 17, 1988[2] |
| Venue: | Salle Pleyel Paris, France |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 50:17 |
| Label: | ECM ECM 1401 |
| Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
| Prev Title: | Changeless |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Tribute |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
Paris Concert is a live solo album by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, recorded at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on October 17, 1988, and released on ECM in April 1990.[1]
In 1988 Jarrett toured Europe two times (June, October) offering 6 solo concerts.[3] Paris Concert was recorded during the second 1988 European mini-tour.
Richard Lehnert at Stereophile gave the album the "Recording of November 1990" award, stating:
This is Jarrett's most satisfying solo outing since 1982's Concerts.... The gorgeously deep, lush recording is, of course, closely multi-miked, with perhaps even some added reverb. But producer Manfred Eicher does this sort of thing at least as well as did John Culshaw, and probably better than anyone working today. I have no complaints, even if the piano is 12' wide.[4]The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell states, "Jarrett pulls further away from the old rousing (and thoroughly American) gospel, blues and folk roots of earlier concerts toward a more abstract concept.... [His] virtuosic abilities are never in doubt, and he rarely flaunts his technique for its own sake, but one senses that the inspiration level is down; one doesn't come out of the CD all charged up as with many earlier solo concerts."
All music by Keith Jarrett except as noted.