Book of Ways (1986) is a studio recording of clavichord solos. He has continued to record solo piano albums in the studio intermittently throughout his career, including Staircase (1976), Invocations/The Moth and the Flame (1981), and The Melody at Night, with You (1999). Jarrett’s first album for ECM, Facing You (1971), was a solo piano date recorded in the studio. Most parts of these recorded sets were released in 2007 on The Cellar Door Sessions featuring four improvisations by Jarrett. These were done on electric pianos ( Rhodes and Contempo), which Jarrett was loath to perform on. Jarrett recorded a few solo pieces live under the guidance of Miles Davis at Washington’s music club The Cellar Door in December 1970.

In 2008 he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine’s 73rd Annual Readers’ Poll.

His album The Köln Concert (1975) became the best-selling piano recording in history. In 2003 Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first recipient of both the contemporary and classical musician prizes, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.

His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer.

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