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Still Live
by Ecm Records
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Audio CD
Publisher: Ecm Records
Format: Live, Original recording reissued
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| I Must Add Another 5 to this Clear Winner |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is the 18th number 5 rating with nothing lower listed.
I have so many Keith Jarrett CD's that I can't count them, but this live concert with Gary Peacock on bass & Jack DeJohnette on drums will leave you in awe. Never have I heard jazz standards that change gears into classical music or build into something so profound that its spiritual. The best examples are Disc #1 song #4 "The Song Is You" by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein which's starts as minimal classical music that somehow transforms into the jazz standard & then into free Jazz improv. My favorite is Disc #2 song #3 which is really 4 songs in one but the transitions are so amazing that its hard to tell where one ends & the other begins. "You & The Night & The Music" by Arthur Schwartz & Howard Dietz starts out as a jazz standard but Keith Jarrett adds an "Extension" where it reaches such a state of ecstasy by hammering out chord structures that you may have to turn it off to save your emotional state...but I never do...I go for it. Then after the "Extension" comes an "Intro" & somehow the song turns once again into another jazz standard "Someday My Prince Will Come" by Frank Churchill & Larry Morey. Gary Peacock zooms up & down the bass at times you can hear the higher notes pop through. Jack DeJohnette plays very free & flowing with alot of cymbals. One draw back is Keith Jarrett humming along or yelling sometimes during the music, but who can blame him. Recorded Digitally Live July 13, 1986 at Philharmonic Hall Munich Germany.
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| An Inner Mounting Flame |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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The "Standards Trio" - Keith Jarrett (p), Gary Peacock (b), Jack DeJohnette (d) - take their artistry to amazing heights in this 2-CD that chronicles the July 13, 1986, performance at the Philharmonic Hall, Munich, Germany.
Jarrett is particularly expressive at what has become a "signature" song, Autumn Leaves, with other amazing highlights being My Funny Valentine, Billie's Bounce and I Remember Clifford. The cymbal patterns of DeJohnette are brilliant, as is the subtle way Peacock expresses his flair on the contrabass.
The 10 tracks are as accessible as any that has found its way out of the ECM vault and a relatively inexpensive way for a new listener to get a woderful overview of the trio's incredible interpretations of classic material in the pop/jazz genres.
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| BEST JAZZ PIANO TRIO IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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A STELLAR PERFORMANCE FROM KEITH GARY AND JACK .It is the best jazz piano trio in the world till now and IMO IT WILL REMAIN FOR EVER . SO LIVELY SO VIVID SO SIMPLE AND SO EXPLOSIVE IN THIS RECORDIND .THEY ARE REALLY AMAZING.STILL LIVE AND EXTENDED PLAY BY DAVE HOLLAND SHARE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MY RESPECT AND DEFINITELY WOULD BE THE MOST HARD TASK TO DECIDE WHICH IS THE BEST .BUT MANY TIMES I LEAN TOWARDS KEITH AND HIS COMPANY .MELODY ALWAYS WINS .
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| Ranking at Best. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I'm not sure what prompts certain professed "purists" to low mark Jarrett for grunts or play the dismantle-his-genius game pursuant to other alleged impurities. Want no grunts? Sterility in plastic piano capsules? Want perfecto piano playing by stiff aficionados who, like the "purists" they cater to, are also too timid to let out a good soul-body grunt? The music world is asphyxiated with them so no need to look far. Or do you want a Jarrett bright as an angel and way up on his wing? Then look no further and grab this CD set. It's one of the best free-wheelin' Jarrett CD sets out there, I assure you, a definite winner and the trio shines. I have virtually every CD by Jarrett so I speak from that particular angle.
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| Even the Jarrett "squeak!" can't hurt this gem |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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One of jazz' great ironies is Keith's famous scolding of audiences for making noise, and then when they become silent he starts squeaking like a mouse who found the back door to the cheese compartment.
This album is so fine, however, that his endless squeals can barely besmirch the genius of the piano playing that elicits them. I haven't heard a better Jarrett record, trio or not. There is SO much MUSIC here! Not just stellar technique but truly melodic glissandos and rippling crescendos of joy that turn these jazz standards on their heads and show what true musical inventiveness can achieve.
By far my favorite is When I Fall In Love Again, best version of this chestnut I've heard including Bill Evans' (high praise indeed!). You can hear Bill all over Keith's harmonic ideas but KJ's touch on this tune is all his own and he coaxes the theme into gorgeous canyons full of light and shading that take my breath away, year after year. Jack and Gary are with him every step, prodding and supporting, and by tune's end you feel as if you've been witness to something truly magical.
One of the great jazz trio records, up there with OP's Night Train and Evans' Portrait In Jazz and Village Vanguard albums.
Can't recommend this one highly enough.
Just remember to listen past the mouse!
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My Funny Valentine
Autumn Leaves
When I Fall in Love
Song Is You
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