These two exemplary albums, released to coincide with Jarrett's 70th birthday on 8 May 2015, are indicative of how the pianist was able to simultaneously function at the very top of his profession in the world of jazz and the world of classical music, an achievement that has not really been fully acknowledged by either of these two otherwise hermetically sealed worlds. Creation is effectively Jarrett's choice cuts from his 2014 concert tour, taken from solo concerts in Toronto, Tokyo, Paris and Rome. Editing his work in this way is something he has not done before since normally his solo concerts have been released in their entirety. Yet by taking the very best episodes from what amounted to some eighteen hours of music, sequencing them in a way that provides narrative logic, the listener is confronted with an intensity of performance that is not usually present in the normal ebb and flow of a Jarrett performance. It makes for compelling music. Normally, a classical release is beyond the scope of this magazine, but here we have Jarrett in bravura form on the concert platform performing two demanding piano concertos (with an improvised encore after the Bartók) that come close to making your jaw drop. The listener is simply left wondering, not only at the technical achievement, but the passion and intensity that brings these concertos alive. Jarrett's precise but even fingering and the crystalline tone he gets from the piano are features of these performances, while the gradation in dynamics, from p to fff without sacrificing his precise articulation all contribute to a highly memorable album, the only representation we have of Jarrett performing these works.