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Where to start with Keith Jarrett
Start with Part I — The Köln Concert, 2018. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 13 Keith Jarrett tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 13 Keith Jarrett tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 13 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The dates here run from 1978 to 2018. They are the dates attached to the releases in this room rather than recording dates, so the later ones are likely reissues — but 40 years is still more than one version of the artist.
Every track is filed under jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The energy knob swings 58 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Part I — The Köln Concert, 2018. Of the 13 Keith Jarrett tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
I Fall in Love Too Easily — The Old Country. The lowest energy reading of any Keith Jarrett track in the room (20 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Moment's Notice — After The Fall. The highest energy reading here, at 78 out of 100 — a 58-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Keith Jarrett sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Keith Jarrett's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 53 | 25–72 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 39 | 20–78 | ambient → driving |
| density | 35 | 9–65 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 33 | 18–60 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Spirits | — | 2 |
| New Vienna | — | 2 |
| The Köln Concert | 2018 | 1 |
| After The Fall | — | 1 |
| Back Hand | — | 1 |
| Budapest Concert | — | 1 |
| Belonging | — | 1 |
| The Old Country | — | 1 |
| At The Blue Note | — | 1 |
| My Song | — | 1 |
| Sun Bear Concerts | 1978 | 1 |
Every Keith Jarrett track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Encore from Tokyo | Sun Bear Concerts | 1978 |
| Part I | The Köln Concert | 2018 |
| Moment's Notice | After The Fall | — |
| Imagination | At The Blue Note | — |
| Back Hand | Back Hand | — |
| Solstice | Belonging | — |
| Budapest Concert, Part XI | Budapest Concert | — |
| Tabarka | My Song | — |
| New Vienna, Part III | New Vienna | — |
| Part V | New Vienna | — |
| Spirits 14&22 | Spirits | — |
| Spirits 15 | Spirits | — |
| I Fall in Love Too Easily | The Old Country | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Keith Jarrett's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Pat Metheny — jazz, 17 tracks
- Where to start with Ahmad Jamal — jazz, 28 tracks
- Where to start with Thelonious Monk — jazz, 23 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Keith Jarrett as a solo artist, from the United States and born in 1945. Its contributors tag the artist classical, jazz, pianist, jazz fusion and progressive jazz. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Keith Jarrett tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 13, across 11 albums. 2 of them carry a date, running from 1978 to 2018. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 13 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 13 of these 13 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.