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Keith Jarrett is hardly the first artist in the jazz world to make childish, self-aggrandising and poisonous remarks. Should jazz fans have boycotted Charles Mingus because of his abusive tantrums?Should we have destroyed our recordings of Miles Davis once we discovered what a wife-bashing mind-fucking arsehole he could be?While I have little patience with the sort of adolescent, dark romanticism in the arts and entertainment worlds that not only tolerates toxic or self-destructive behaviour but actually seems advocate it, I think we should still separate the work (in terms of appreciation and consumption) from the personality that created it.The jazz world and jazz fans have very rarely shown an informed, mature and critical understanding of the psychiatric illnesses, addiction disorders and neurological issues experienced by a significant minority of jazz artists. Jarrett may simply be a self-involved narcissist - an overgrown brat, a jerk. Or there may be other factors at work. We don&