Rio is a live solo piano album by Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...

, recorded at the Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro in 2011, released as a two CD set on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "After one listen, it becomes obvious Rio is indeed very special. It puts on aural display Jarrett as a virtually boundless musician, whose on-the-spot, wide-ranging ideas are executed with astonishing immediacy and dexterity; this music is passionate, poetic (often songlike), and stands outside the confines of genre... since nothing approaching what is here actually exists in Jarrett's recorded catalog. Rio is therefore the new standard by which the pianist's future solo recordings will be judged, and perhaps also sets the bar for any other player who attempts the same".

Track listing

All compositions by Keith Jarrett

Disc One

1. "Part I" - 8:40
2. "Part II" 6:52
3. "Part III" 6:00
4. "Part IV" - 4:13
5. "Part V" - 6:25
6. "Part VI" - 7:00

Disc Two:

1. "Part VII" - 7:28
2. "Part VIII" - 4:58
3. "Part IX" - 5:02
4. "Part X" - 5:01
5. "Part XI" - 3:20
6. "Part XII" - 6:09
7. "Part XIII" 7:03
8. "Part XIV" - 5:40
9. "Part XV" - 6:34
   • Recorded at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 9, 2011