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1985 LP Edition Collage LC8975 EC 414-4 Tanz auf dem Vulkan
1988 LP Edition Collage LC8975 EC 433 Aufruf
1991 CD Edition Collage LC8975 EC 443-3 Fire
1995 CD Edition Collage LC8975 EC 490-2 Live in Tübingen
1999 CD Level Green 22005 Scenes & Preludes
2001 CD Edition Musikat LC01705 EDM056 Short Stories for piano
2002 CD Edition Musikat LC01705 Chris Jarrett Trio plays New World Music
2005 CD Karl Heinz Heilig Film + Medienproduktion Geträumtes Leben - Gelebter Traum (Score)
2006 CD Tales of our Time
2009 CD Edition Collage LC8975 EC 540-2 Wax Cabinet (Four Free)


"Wax Cabinet", "Live in Tübingen" and "Fire" are available at GLM Music.
"Scenes & Preludes" is available at jazz-network.com.


Wax Cabinet 2009 - Wax Cabinet
Four Free

1. L'Homme De Fer
2. Inside The Bunker
3. White Nights
4. Wax Cabinet
5. Wood And String
6. Beograd
7. Friand Poulet
8. Engführung
9. Flunching
10. Foam
11. The Simmer
2006 - Tales of our Time
total time 73:34

1. Guten Abend
2. Prayer
3. L'homme de Fer (The Iron Man)
4. Nuages de nuit (Night Clouds)
5. Beograd
6. The Simmer
7. Secret Agent
8. Autumn Music (Homage á Scriabin)
9. "Suppose We..." (for Jennet Peoples)
10. Sonatina "Little Animals" (Homage á Mozart)
11. Ghost at the Door
12. The Voices
13. Ostinato (Improvisation on an ostinato by Antonio Soler)
14. After after Midnight
15. Night Watch

Recorded on the 13th, 14th and 23rd of February, 2006 at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France by Benoit Burger and Laurent Signolet. Recording engineer: Benoit Burger. Mixed at the Studio Jazzophone in Strasbourg, France. Produced by Chris Jarrett. All compositions by Chris Jarrett - GEMA. Piano: Steinway & Sons, Hamburg, Germany.
Chris Jarrett Trio plays New World Music 2005 - Geträumtes Leben - Gelebter Traum (Score)
total time 50:45
Karl Heinz Heilig Film + Medienproduktion
Chris Jarrett Trio plays New World Music 2002 - Chris Jarrett Trio plays New World Music
total time 50:29
Edition Musikat LC01705
for promotional purposes only

1. Al Hadba (The Hunchback Lady)
2. Punic Dance
3. Samai Shadd Araban
4. Tunisian Journey
5. Cancion Sefardi
6. Meditation Carthage
Short Stories for piano 2001 - Short Stories for piano
total time 72:59
Edition Musikat LC01705

1. Punic Dance
    Four Legends:
2. Ave Crux
3. Tremolo
4. Legend in c minor
5. Rhythmic Battle
 6. Return to Ulster
    Six Preludes:
7. Adrift
8. Loom
9. Douz
10. Tuba
11. Cats
12. Glühwi
 13. Meditation Carthage
14. Onward

I hope no explanatory notes are necessary for the enjoyment of the music on this CD; but I suppose a few words won't hurt for those interested in the literary aspects of these "short stories"

I've always enjoyed the kind of music, which feels the need to explain or tell the audience something; music that presents us with an experience. The inner relationship of themes to one another within a piece can be like those of characters in a novel who we get to know and to like, or find disgusting, ugly or heroic. Why, for heaven's sake, must every theme be beautiful or enlivening in music? Would we read stories at all, if all the characters were faultless and the plots a series of happy beginnings and happy ends? Yes, "fun music" can be a kind of slavery.

Anyway, the pieces on this CD are really like little stories - fun included - and can best be appreciated when heard as such. (Perhaps the preludes are made more of poetry.) As in tales and literature, it is therefore possible to miss the whole point by overhearing one or two sentences or forgetting what has already occured.

Some more specific aspects, which may be of interest:
Punic Dance and Meditation Carthage are pieces of imagery influenced by experiences in Tunisia; especially at the Roman and Punic ruins in the city of Carthage. Ave Crux (from the 4 Legends) is a set of variations on an old Catholic hymn - as Return to Ulster is on a Scottish song. Onward is the most personal piece on the CD, generally sketching a process of struggle, surviving and life.

Chris Jarrett
Scenes & Preludes 1999 - Scenes & Preludes
total time 70:49
Level Green 22005

1. Phrase
2. Sf
3. Games
4. Sonatine
5. Love Scene From "For Anne Frank"
6. D+C (1+2+3) 2X
7. Sonate Satirique
8. 8 Improvised Preludes
9. Red Knight
10. Blues
11. Duo For A Solo Pianist
12. Gypsy Cries
Live in Tübingen 1995 - Live in Tübingen
total time 62:15
Edition Collage LC8975 EC 490-2

1. Protzeduren
2. Wanderings
3. Dance Dreams
4. Musica Satirica
5. Ballade
6. Moon Music
Fire 1991 - Fire
total time 73:17
Edition Collage LC8975 EC 443-3

1. broken stone
2. blue nights / white nights
3. 3 folk songs
4. rondo 21
5. down south
6. dance (from 2 dances)
7. fire
8. paprika lady
9. 2 scenes from "... liebt mich nicht"
10. transitions


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