Jammin’ Keith Jarrett and Suite, Suite Händel

Today’s an All-Day Editing Day — in other words, I’m hip-deep in InDesign and shall shortly run mad — so music is an absolute must.

For me, that means (almost always) Baroque, (most likely) keyboard, and (pretty much never) anything jazzy.

That last one’s not entirely fair/can be self-defeating, because there’s lots of improvisational elements in Baroque music. Which is probably why I’ve been internally inconsistent/lucked into Keith Jarret, a jazz-classical pianist who’s a really wonderful improviser. And also a composer.

And also (so as to not entirely bury the lede), he plays these suites by Händel. Which are really, really wonderful, and exactly what I need right now:

Attribution(s): “Jarrett Jammin'” courtesy of Getty Images, which allows the use of certain images “as long as the photo is not used for commercial purposes (meaning in an advertisement or in any way intended to sell a product, raise money, or promote or endorse something);” “Retrato de Handel” by Philip Mercier is licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. I think it should actually be called “Bored Handel.”