Standards Live

Standards Live is an album recorded by Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio live in concert in Paris, in July 1985. It was published by ECM Records in 1986 [1] and it became the first in a long series of live albums to be released by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette as a unit.

Standards Live
Live album by
Keith Jarrett
Released1986 [1]
Recorded1985, July 2
VenuePalais des Congrès, Studios de la Grande Armée, Paris (France)
GenreJazz
Length54:19
LabelECM Records
[ECM 1317]
ProducerManfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Spirits
(1985)		 Standards Live
(1986)		 Still Live
(1986)
Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette chronology
Changes
(1983)		 Standards Live
(1985)		 Still Live
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

July 1985 Tour

Standards Live was recorded during the "Standards trio" July 1985 European tour which, according to www.keithjarrett.org, offered 12 recitals in 26 days:[4]

  • 1 - Paris (France)
  • 2 - Paris (France)
  • 3 - Ravenna (Italy)
  • 4 - Ravenna (Italy)
  • 10 - Montreux (Switzerland)
  • 12 - Den Haag (Netherlands)
  • 15 - Lyon (France) during the Nuits de Fourvière festival
  • 17 - Salon-de-Provence (France)
  • 18 - San Sebastian - Donostia (Spain) during the San Sebastian Jazz Festival
  • 19 - San Sebastian - Donostia (Spain)
  • 23 - Antibes (France)
  • 26 - Montpellier (France)

Reception

Jazz commentator Scott Yanow states that "[t]he interplay between the players was constantly impressive."[5] The Rough Guide to Jazz describes the concert as "exceptional", singling out the performance of "Too Young to Go Steady" as "one of the most perfect and exultant trio performances in the whole of jazz."[6] In his biography of Jarrett, Ian Carr describes the album as "superlative: the incredible dynamism, the sheer creativity of the three men, the feeling of ecstasy that pervades the whole concert and the interplay and inter-dependence of the trio."[7] Carr singles out "Stella by Starlight" as here "exquisite and gripping".[8]

Track listing
  1. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 11:15
  2. "The Wrong Blues" (William Engvick, Alec Wilder) – 8:03
  3. "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 8:44
  4. "Too Young to Go Steady" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 10:10
  5. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 9:31
  6. "The Old Country" (Nat Adderley, Curtis Lewis) – 6:36

Total effective playing time: 49:02 (the album contains 5:19 applause approximately)

Personnel

Technical Personnel
  • Martin Wieland - recording engineer
  • Manfred Eicher - production
  • Barbara Wojirsch - design
  • Franz Kafka – illustration from "The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923"

Notes
  1. ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette: Standards Live, accessed May 2020
  2. Nastos, Michael G. (2011). "Standards Live - Keith Jarrett Trio | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 769. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. keithjarrett.org Keith Jarrett 1985 live concerts accessed May 12, 2020
  5. label at AllMusic
  6. Carr, Ian; Brian Fairweather; Charles Alexander Priestley (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz. Rough Guides. pp. 403. ISBN 1-84353-256-5. Jarrett Standards Live Grammy.
  7. Carr, Keith Jarrett, 166-167
  8. Carr, Keith Jarrett, 167

References

Carr, Ian (1992). Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80478-6.

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