The adventure, it goes without saying, is self-perpetuating. Material from the Khmer sessions has been given similar treatment by The Herbaliser, Mental Overdrive, Rockers Hi-Fi and others. The result is a relentlessly subtle texture of sound in which the lyrical trumpet barely manages to lift clear of the rhythms that are always threatening to engulf it. This is crucial to the emotional tension of the music because, historically, the improvising instrument has been engulfed. That is to say, jazz has been almost buried beneath the landslide advance of techno and its myriad related subgenres.
Jazz is accepted as a glimmer in the millennial dawn.
As far as I know, no-one has yet dared to sample or remix Jarrett. But when they do, I'd like to hear it. But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage and Paris Trance. This article first appeared in the online magazine Feed.