Bye Bye Blackbird (Keith Jarrett album)

Bye Bye Blackbird is a studio album by Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" recorded in October 1991 as a tribute to Miles Davis, who had died two weeks earlier. After their debut album Standards in 1983, this would be the first and last time that the Standards Trio recorded in a studio. It was released by ECM Records in April 1993.[1]

Bye Bye Blackbird
Studio album by
Keith Jarrett Trio
Released1993, April [1]
Recorded1991, October 12
StudioPower Station, New York City (USA)
GenreJazz
Length68:00
LabelECM Records
[ECM 1467]
ProducerManfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Vienna Concert
(1991)		 Bye Bye Blackbird
(1993)		 At the Deer Head Inn
(1992)
Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette chronology
The Cure
(1990)		 Bye Bye Blackbird
(1991)		 Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

As in other works by the Keith Jarrett Trio, this is an album mostly consisting of jazz standards. There are, however, two tracks written (or improvised) by the trio for the occasion, as a homage to Davis: "For Miles" and "Blackbird, Bye Bye".

Original notes (for Miles Davis)

Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette wrote the following notes on the original CD issue [ECM 1467]:

Miles was a medium, a transformer, a touchstone a magnetic field: the authentic minimalist (where, although there were so few notes, there was so much in those few notes). No matter how much "noise" there was around him, Miles always came from silence, the notes existing in a purity all their own (the opposite of a vacuum, which is most of minimalism). Miles proved the impotency of the "technicians", the potency of pure desire.

We are now left with a large hole in which every improviser should (must) question his/her purity of desire, for without a touchstone there is no reflective surface. This is why touchstones are so important, and also shows that in every age we need touchstones to keep the path illuminated enough that we don't forget it is there (because we are so enamored of "our" "ability"). Miles never forget the music; we will never forget Miles.

Keith Jarrett 　　 Gary Peacock 　 　 Jack DeJohnette

Track listing
  1. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) - 11:13
  2. "You Won't Forget Me" (Kermit Goell, Fred Spielman) - 10:46
  3. "Butch and Butch" (Oliver Nelson) - 6:37
  4. "Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) - 6:42
  5. "For Miles" (Jarrett, Peacock, DeJohnette) - 18:43
  6. "Straight No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:46
  7. "I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:02
  8. "Blackbird, Bye Bye" (Jarrett, Peacock, DeJohnette) - 3:02

Personnel

Technical Personnel
  • Jay Newland - recording engineer
  • Jan Erik Kongshaug - mastering
  • Catherine Pichonnier - cover photo
  • Dieter Rehm - Cover design
  • Manfred Eicher - executive producer

References
  1. ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette: Bye Bye Blackbird , accessed May 2020
  2. Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Bye Bye Blackbird - Keith Jarrett | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 770. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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