La Scala (album)

La Scala
La Scala
Live album by Keith Jarrett
Released	1997, May
Recorded	1995, February 13
Venue	Teatro alla Scala, Milan (Italy)
Length	1:18:38
Label	ECM Records; [ECM 1640]
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Keith Jarrett solo piano chronology

La Scala is a live solo piano album by American pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in concert on February 13, 1995 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Italy) and released by ECM Records in 1997.^[1]

Reception[]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "The music overall develops slowly but always holds one's interest, reinforcing one's viewpoint of Keith Jarrett as one of the top pianists of the 1980s and '90s.".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]

Track listing[]

All music by Keith Jarrett except as indicated.

"La Scala, Part 1" - 44:54
"La Scala, Part 2" - 27:42
"Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) - 6:01

Total effective playing time: 1:16:34 (the album contains 2:04 applause approximately)

Personnel[]

Keith Jarrett – piano

Technical Personnel[]

Jan Erik Kongshaug - Remixing Engineer
Judith Joy Ross - Liner Photo
Mayo Bucher - Cover Graphic
Michael Hofstetter - Cover Design
Manfred Eicher - Remixing Engineer and Executive Producer

Musicological notes[]

Probably not without a sense of irony to the setting of this recording, Part 1 climaxes into a sheer citation of the famous aria Nessun Dorma from the opera Turandot by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ECM Records Keith Jarrett: La Scala accessed May 2020
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2011
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 770. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[ECM-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ECM Records Keith Jarrett: La Scala accessed May 2020

[Allmusic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2011

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 770. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Live albums	Somewhere Before (1968) Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne (1973) Fort Yawuh (1973) The Köln Concert (1975) Sun Bear Concerts (1978) Eyes of the Heart (1978) Nude Ants (1979) Concerts (1982) Standards Live (1985) Still Live (1986) Changeless (1987) Dark Intervals (1988) Personal Mountains (1989) Paris Concert (1990) Tribute (1989) Standards in Norway (1989) The Cure (1990) Vienna Concert (1992) At the Deer Head Inn (1994) Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note (1995) La Scala (1997) Tokyo '96 (1998) Whisper Not (1999) Inside Out (2000) Always Let Me Go (2001) Up for It (2002) The Out-of-Towners (2004) Radiance (2005) The Carnegie Hall Concert (2006) My Foolish Heart (2007) Yesterdays (2008) Paris / London: Testament (2009) Somewhere (2009) Rio (2011) Sleeper (2012) Hamburg '72 (2014) Creation (2015) A Multitude of Angels (2016) After the Fall (2018) La Fenice (2018) Munich 2016 (2019) Budapest Concert (2020)
Compilation albums	Mysteries: The Impulse Years 1975-1976 (1996) The Impulse Years: 1973-1974 (1997)
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