Since his Radiance album and his Tokyo Solo DVD of 2002, Jarrett began breaking away from the notion of a solo concert as sustained improvised arc that made Köln Concert such a huge success for both artist and label. Now the emphasis was in breaking his concerts into a series of self-contained episodes that stood in their own right as expressions of his solo art. These episodes could be long, short, turbulent, angular, probing or declamatory and of whatever length it took for Jarrett to bring his spontaneous creations to resolution. By 2005 and The Carnegie Hall Concert, Jarrett had achieved mastery of what for him was a new approach to solo improvisation, even throwing in blues, boogiewoogie, a standard ‘Time on My Hands’ and a new perspective on ‘My Song’ as encores on the Carnegie set. La Fenice– also a 2CD set – came almost exactly 10 months after the Carnegie concert and saw Jarrett refining and focusing his improvisations in blocks of varying lengths to more profound effect. Comprising eight spontaneously conceived episodes of shifting moods, harmonically questing episodes and thoughtful, introspective reflection through episodes ‘I ‘to episode ‘VI’, he interpolates the Gilbert and Sullivan composition ‘The Sun Whose Rays’ before continuing with episodes ‘VII’ through to ‘VIII’ when the concert is concluded with ‘My Wild Irish Rose’, ‘Stella By Starlight’ and Jarrett’s own composition, ‘Blossom’. On the face of it, ‘My Wild Irish Rose’ may appear an incongruous choice for a jazz setting, but it had actually been picked-up by the big bands in the Swing Era – bands such as those led by Chick Webb and Bunny Berigan featuring it on their coast-to-coast radio broadcasts.