Tokyo '96

Tokyo '96 was recorded on March 30 during a tour in Japan where, according to www.keithjarrett.org, Jarrett's "Standard trio" performed 10 times in 16 days.[4]

• March 20 - Public Hall, Shibuya
• March 22 - Sunpalace Hall, Fukuoka
• March 25 - Festival Hall, Osaka
• March 26 - Kaikan Hall 1, Kyoto
• March 28 - Arts Center, Aichi
• March 30 - Orchard Hall, Bunkamura, Tokyo
• April 1 - Orchard Hall, Bunkamura, Tokyo
• April 2 - Orchard Hall, Bunkamura, Tokyo
• April 4 - Arts Theater, Saitama
• April 5 - Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and states, "the standards trio lives up to its formidable track record of consistency and then some. Jarrett and perennial cohorts Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette are, if anything, even sharper, swinging harder and more attuned to each other than ever".[2]

In November 1998 All About Jazz review by Christopher Hoard noted:

"The music here is so startlingly pure in its conception, it sadly harkens to the fact that with few exceptions, little remains today in jazz which attains the force and beauty of those original standards, those moods and statements we find Jarrett continually resurrecting in a new hues and phrasings. Sadly it seems, Jarrett may be last in a line of this centuries greatest musical impressarios. If you open up to the music revealed on this recording, it indeed seems improbable that any of a younger generation of jazz musicians will even attempt to live up to the standard this group realizes for meeting up with music and an audience in a room. I sincerely hope I'm wrong here".[5]

1. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 11:38
2. "Never Let Me Go" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) - 7:02
3. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) - 8:07
4. "Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) - 7:37
5. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 10:20
6. "Mona Lisa" (Evans, Livingston) - 3:16
7. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 7:58
8. "Last Night When We Were Young/Caribbean Sky" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg/Keith Jarrett) - 9:55
9. "John's Abbey" (Bud Powell) - 5:50
10. "My Funny Valentine/Song" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers/Jarrett) - 7:16

Total effective playing time: 1:16:27 (the album contains 2:38 applause approximately)

• Keith Jarrett – piano
• Gary Peacock - bass
• Jack DeJohnette - drums

• Toshio Yamanaka - recording engineer
• Kuni Shinuhara - photography
• Michael Hofstetter - cover design
• Manfred Eicher - production