Keith Jarrett Jazz Piano Performance Art

Keith Jarrett is widely regarded as one of the most creative jazz musicians,and his improvisation skills have always made him the focus of attention in jazz.Keith Jarrett shows his talent and love for music incisively and vividly.The music he plays and the jazz piano performance art he embodies make him an excellent and outstanding jazz piano player in the field of jazz piano.The infectious jazz piano improvisation presented by Keith Jarrett impressed the audience.Through the analysis and understanding of his performing art characteristics and playing techniques,it can provide meaningful reference for jazz piano learners and researchers to learn improvisation,and play a positive role in promoting the development of Chinese jazz piano performance.At the same time,Keith Jarrett’s performance reveals a unique style that is different from other jazz players.His improvisation features complex multi-voice performance techniques and key touching skills,and the deep expression of emotion is the purpose of his continuous emphasis.No matter what style of music he is interpreting,Keith Jarrett always reveals simple,pure and beautiful emotions and a singing quality like strings.This characteristic makes his performance separate from the historical process and development of jazz and has significance that cannot be ignored,which is worth our exploration and study.And in the process of playing combined with Keith Jarrett’s playing techniques and performance art,the music presented can have a stronger expression and appreciation value.This time,the author will start from three dimensions of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett’s jazz piano two-handed multi-voice improvisational techniques,tenor melody playing techniques,key-touching techniques,focusing on the analysis of his use of multi-voice playing techniques in stage performance and the treatment of key-touching.This paper will also analyze the external environmental factors that form this performing art from the perspective of the performer’s life experience.It is hoped that through such analysis,jazz pianist Keith Jarrett’s atments in jazz music can be demonstrated in multiple dimensions,and the application process and effect of playing skills can be reasonably and concretly demonstrated through the author’s practice of improvisation skills.Then for the jazz pianist Keith Jarrett’s playing skills to achieve more intuitive learning,reference and research.