The Ventriloquism of Keith Jarrett

@jjss49 You took the exact words out of my mouth.

I'll tell you who's worse that Jarrett, and that's the pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, RIP. What a wonderful player, but my god, he mouth was at odds with what his fingers were doing on the piano. Check out Helen Merrill's You and the Night and the Music to witness the tragedy.

+1 for @tomcy6 ’s and the OP's use of ’I’... a critical and important distinction.

The first one that turned me off with vocalizations was Glenn Gould.- it ruined one of his recordings of the Goldberg Variations for me.

@wspohn 

I can understand your feelings but for me errr...no.

If I didn't hear them I'd know for sure that something was terribly wrong my version of reality.

In any case you've always got the '55 where it's less obtrusive or even the wonderful Zenph re-recording.

The 55 version is fine - much less intrusive vocalization.  And I would rather listen to either artist with vocalizations than not listen to them at all!

IIRC, Oscar Peterson also did this a bit.