After eight minutes of agitated, highly rhythmic vamping, the left hand and the right hand jockeying for space on the keyboard, the repetition of a D key so many times that most other pianists would have developed rapid-onset carpal tunnel syndrome, Keith Jarrett finally lets go. 


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… is an independent journalist and award-winning author based in Virginia. Her most recent book is Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City.