Well, I'd have to listen to both of them again. Do you feel that the two are in dialogue with each other in some way, musically? Last time we spoke, we talked about the Budapest concert quite a bit. This was the concert right after Budapest. But I did listen to it several times along with the other concerts I did not release, which are Vienna and Rome. The something I succeed at is to not prepare. How much have you listened to the recording in preparation for the release?

I've thought about calling you a few times to check in, and then I had an excellent excuse, because ECM is about to release Bordeaux Concert. Compared to what I have now, which is a right hand I try to assume is capable of something. Well, that was the pure feeling of: if I look at my piano, I shouldn't play it. When you say that you relate this to chronic fatigue syndrome, how would you differentiate the two experiences? My mother having, and father having been that - and my grandmother. And I usually was fairly Christian Scientistic about it. The only thing I can relate this to is the chronic fatigue syndrome problem that I had. Well, I know that with these things, progress comes slowly. My right hand is not like my right hand was, and my left hand is not at all. So today I went walking down our private road to the beach across from the road, where there's a lake. And walking with and without a cane in different circumstances. Well, I don't know if I'd call it therapy, but I've been using my legs more. And how has recovery been? Have you been doing a lot of physical therapy? It's a beautiful place in the summertime. We've got flowers, plants, butterflies, birds, everything. I'm presently sitting on my front porch, which I now have called my office. Nate Chinen: It was September of 2020 when we last spoke. Recorded on July 6, 2016, a few days after Budapest, it's another balancing act of consonance and dissonance from a pianist whose blank-slate solo improvisations have always been valorized. Now, in addition to those bookends, ECM is preparing to release Bordeaux Concert. The conclusion of that tour had already been chronicled the previous year, on an album titled Munich 2016. Jarrett's longtime label, ECM Records, cushioned the devastating news with some extraordinary music: Budapest Concert, recorded at the beginning of his final European tour. That revelation, which I reported in a piece for the New York Times, shook Jarrett's worldwide audience, eliciting sympathy and concern along with sorrow over the end of an illustrious concert career. 'That's what I remember.'Īlmost two years ago, pianist Keith Jarrett shared publicly that he had suffered two strokes in 2018 and would likely never perform again. And I walked along that,' Keith Jarrett says of the tour stop captured on Bordeaux Concert.

'I remember there was a river next to the hotel, or across the street.

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