May 20, 2021
Singer-songwriter and man
probably coming out of your car radio right now JP
Saxe joins me for a surprising favorite album pick - jazz
piano legend Keith Jarrett’s 1975 live album “The
Köln Concert”.
We talk about the strange backstory behind the album - a dyspeptic
artist, a teenage concert promoter, the wrong piano and a show that
almost didn’t happen - and more including the time JP met and had a
confrontation with Jarrett, how Jarrett improvises and how JP is
able to improvise in his own shows, whether anger is productive as
creative fuel, building and releasing tension and more. Plus, on
the verge of releasing his debut album, JP talks about the albums
he measured himself against and the pressure on your first LP.