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Last year there was an exhibition at a gallery in New York of photographs of World War II battlefields. They were recent photographs, and the scenes were tranquil, with wildflowers. It was the knowledge that these sites had once contained carnage and agony that gave the photographs their particular resonance.


Testament is like that. The full experience of the recording depends on information that is separate from the work of art: Keith Jarrett’s liner notes.

This three-disc set contains a solo concert in Paris and one in London, four days apart, in late 2008. Jarrett’s wife of 30 years had just left him, and he was having “as close a brush with a nervous breakdown” as he had ever experienced. He went through with the concerts because he saw them as a “scramble to stay alive.” He writes, “I decided that if I backed down now, I would back down forever.”


1-01 - Part I - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
1-02 - Part II - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
1-03 - Part III - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
1-04 - Part IV - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
1-05 - Part V - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
1-06 - Part VI - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
1-07 - Part VII - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
1-08 - Part VIII - Salle Pleyel, Paris.flac
2-01 - Part I - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
2-02 - Part II - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
2-03 - Part III - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
2-04 - Part IV - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
2-05 - Part V - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
2-06 - Part VI - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
3-01 - Part VII - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
3-02 - Part VIII - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
3-03 - Part IX - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
3-04 - Part X - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
3-05 - Part XI - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac
3-06 - Part XII - Royal Festival Hall, London.flac