hier nochmal, bevor ich sie weiter verfälsche, die passage über jarrett aus dem iverson-kikuchi-interview, die ich aus mehreren gründen sehr interessant finde:
Keith is a great piano player! I can’t play like him…I wish I could. He’s just an amazing piano player. I listened to him in his concert at Carnegie Hall quite a bit. Last time I went to one was two years ago or something. It was somewhat of a personalized show for fans. He turned me onto that first album, Facing You. It’s amazing! Unbelievable. I saw the video of him at some outside nighttime jazz festival in Connecticut somewhere. Have you seen that? The piano room was a bit closed up with speakers. Anyway, he was playing his ass off! I think his piano music made me brave enough because it’s impossible to fall into that kind of style. He plays it with his own instinct. No kind of style at all. I couldn’t do that.
One time I was playing at Visiones with Gary and Paul and Keith came. Some small scale orchestra at BAM played a couple of composers works including some of Keith’s. Gary told me before we started the set that Keith was going to stop by along the way back home. So I was kind of scared, right? When we were playing he came in. I saw him and went to him to say hello. He said to me, “Hey, you can play, I like it!” I just thought it was just an ordinary compliment, but I told Gary about it and he said Keith wouldn’t bullshit at all and he meant it! He told me that I had to remember that. He was talking about my self-confidence. Yeah so, that’s what happened! This is the first time I’ve heard from anybody that I could play piano! He understood the way I was playing piano. Most people don’t realize the way I was playing. Because later I noticed I have my own style and approach. It’s kind of sloppy but it’s still representable enough about what I want to say, almost a perfect way.
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