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Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) 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 as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.
Keith Jarrett was born on May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to a mother of Slovenian descent and a father of either French or Scots-Irish descent. He grew up in suburban Allentown with significant early exposure to music. Jarrett possesses absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman. Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions. Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute.
I've just found joy
I'm as happy as a baby boy
With another brand new chu chu toy
When I'm with my sweet Lorraine
A pair of eyes
That are bluer than the summer skies
When you see them you will realize
Why I love my sweet Lorraine
When it's rainin' I don't miss the sun
For it's in my sweeties smile
Just to think that I am the lucky one
Who will lead her down the aisle
Each night I pray
That nobody steals her heart away
Just can't wait until that happy day
When I marry sweet Lorraine
Now when it's rainin' I don't miss the sun
For it's in my sweeties smile
Just to think that I am the lucky one
Who will lead her down the aisle
Hey, each night I pray
That nobody steals her heart away
Just can't wait until that happy day
When I marry sweet, sweet Lorraine