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    Keith Jarrett: "I Love You Porgy" From "The Melody at Night, With You" Album 1999

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    Keith Jarrett's performance of "I Love You Porgy" features simple embellishments that make the harmony more flowing, similar to Bill Evans. In the ending, Jarrett uses a three-part countermelody with the middle voice emphasized through volume. When playing "I Fall In Love Too Easily", Jarrett's piano solo features independent, contrapuntal lines influenced by Bach's chorale style, as seen in his use of call-and-response and four-part voicing. Jarrett's improvisational style draws from polyphonic composers like Bach through his imitation of their inventions, chorales, and fugues.

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    Keith Jarrett's performance of "I Love You Porgy" features simple embellishments that make the harmony more flowing, similar to Bill Evans. In the ending, Jarrett uses a three-part countermelody with the middle voice emphasized through volume. When playing "I Fall In Love Too Easily", Jarrett's piano solo features independent, contrapuntal lines influenced by Bach's chorale style, as seen in his use of call-and-response and four-part voicing. Jarrett's improvisational style draws from polyphonic composers like Bach through his imitation of their inventions, chorales, and fugues.

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    Keith Jarrett's performance of "I Love You Porgy" features simple embellishments that make the harmony more flowing, similar to Bill Evans. In the ending, Jarrett uses a three-part countermelody with the middle voice emphasized through volume. When playing "I Fall In Love Too Easily", Jarrett's piano solo features independent, contrapuntal lines influenced by Bach's chorale style, as seen in his use of call-and-response and four-part voicing. Jarrett's improvisational style draws from polyphonic composers like Bach through his imitation of their inventions, chorales, and fugues.

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    Keith Jarrett: "I Love You Porgy" From "The Melody at Night, With You" Album 1999

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    Keith Jarrett

    “I Love You Porgy”


    From “The Melody at Night, With You” Album 1999

    (example 1)

    In “I love you porgy” Keith Jarrett used some very simple embellishment like inner passing tone
    and neighbor tone, double approach tone etc (example 1)to make the harmony sounds more
    flowing. Similar to Bill Evans, he’s dynamic is also very rich.
    (example2)

    How ever what was special In “I love you porgy” is Keith Jarrett used a “3-part” counter melody
    on the end of this piece (start from 4:25 of the original recording). Different from previous
    musicians like Bill Evans and Bud Powell, he use the middle voice to emphasis the melody (the
    red line connected the middle voice in example 2), we can clearly hear it because he stress the
    middle line by volume to make it obvious. But the middle line does not only stay in the middle
    but also go to the top at certain point (4th bar of example 2).
    “I Fall In Love Too Easily”
    Live in Tokyo at Open Theatre East 1993
    The most fascinating part of this recording is definitely the piano solo outro by Keith Jarrett, the
    whole outro is full filled with his contrapuntal style and polyphony improvisation.

    The red circle indicates the part which are independent from the top melody.

    The techniques Keith Jarrett used here has very strong influence of Bach’s chorale music.
    below are some example of Bach’s chorale, invention and fugue, compare to Keith’s music.
    Example 1
    “Bach : chorale 10. Ach was sol lich Sunser machen”

    Example 2
    “Keith Jarrett: I Fall In Love Too Easily”

    The whole part of the last solo by Keith Jarrett is similar to Bach’s chorale due to it’s multiple
    individual line going at the same time.

    We can even identify this by just looking at the shape of example 1&2, the SATB four-part
    voicing on Bach’s chorale are quite similar to what Keith Jarrett have done on “I fall in love too
    easily”.
    Example 3
    “Keith Jarrett: I Fall In Love Too Easily”

    Example 4
    “Bach: Invention 1 in C Major, BWV 772”

    On the red circle(example 3), Keith Jarrett plays kind of like Bach’s Invention(example 4), by using
    the “call and response” movement between top melody and bottom left hand movement.
    Conclusion

    1 Inherited the style of previous musicians

    Keith Jarrett use inner voice in the way of some previous musicians like Bill Evans.

    2 imitate style of poly phony music

    Keith Jarrett’s contrapuntal way of improvisation has strong influences from


    polyphony music like Bach’s invention, chorale and fugue.

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