Keith Jarrett Rails Against Photographers At Umbria Jazz Festival
Thursday, July 12, 2007
The most anticipated event of this year’s Umbria festival in Italy was the performance by Keith Jarrett. Most tickets had sold out when it was announced that he was on the festival bill and at £56 a seat it shows that his popularity in Italy is a strong as ever. But rather than welcoming the audience to the concert he chose to unleash a torrent of abuse at those in the audience foolish enough to bring cameras or phones with them. "I don't speak Italian, but get someone who speaks English to tell you - turn those fucking cameras off now," were his comments to the 2,500 in the crowd, and better still "I reserve the right to walk off stage at any time if I see anyone taking pictures, and that goes for Jack and Gary too. If you see anyone with a camera, you have the right to take it off them."
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