​Stephans church in Simmern

​​From the very beginning, the artist let his ideas flow freely, to recite his monologue, which would soon become a dialogue with himself. A rebellious, unruly tone sets in, mixed with a sense of duality and ironic distance. This combination, marked by shrill colors or consciously exaggerated gestures, brought the music to a level of something surreal. The audience is confronted with musical crossovers and structures of extreme complexity, utilizing subtle changes in density, sound and musical weavings. We hear the jabbing and interlocking of surfaces and masses.

​This may have led to some shock-reactions within the audience, faced with this large-scale gradation of harmonic colors and sound-surfaces. But Jarrett's music was rich with a wide range of differentiated clusters, for which he developed a whole catalogue of performance techniques such as different forms of vibratos and tremolos. The inner structure was enlivened through parallel glissandi and musical quotes - such as "Eine feste Burg" in the second part of the performance.

​​Jarrett sat in front of the keyboard, playing freely, sometimes bobbing with his music. Highly dynamic, consonant and dissonant layers pulsed within a very slow and cautious rhythmic frame. These rhythms flowed freely onward, but the stream followed a clear direction, a central emotional goal, surrounded by ever-widening circles. Rotations and irritations, sudden, wild hunts and explosions thundered down on the listener. The composer "pulled all the stops". It was simply unbelievable what he got out of this organ. The more the tensions rose, the stronger was the desire for resolution. These came in seldom, light-filled moments. Then Jarrett was able to prove that he could also master poetic moments. Unfortunately, these were too rare.

​The excitement felt was like a whirlwind of gargling floods of sound shooting off one wave of goose bumps after another straight through your body and setting all emotions free. The hopping of the staccati and the rumbling of the bass filled the whole room in this large church. This musician utilized all techniques and styles, wildly improvising with volcanic energy and then suddenly side-stepping. But he was also able to fall into meditation, reaching the highest level of musical beauty. The evening was an emotional roller-coaster, at the end of which the listener could be sure that here the door to something really grandiose had been opened. Prolonged, enthusiastic ovations."

Rhein-Zeitung, Mai 2019 

​Jarrett‘s Art is an experience which shows us that the riddling and the mysterious in life are not only harbingers of insecurity and fear but are also gifts of enrichment and beauty for those who dare to take on the challenge."

"Saarbrücker Zeitung 10.20.2020