Standards Live

Infobox Album
Name = Standards Live
Type = live
Artist = Keith Jarrett trio


Released = 1987
Recorded = July 2, 1985, Paris:
Genre = Jazz
Length = 54:19
Label = ECM
Producer = Manfred Eicher
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxfoxqlgld0e~T1 link]

"Standards Live" is a live jazz album released by the Keith Jarrett trio in 1987. Originally released by ECM, it has been multiply re-issued, including by Universal/Polygram. The album presents a live performance of pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock on bass and Jack De Johnette on drums, recorded on July 2, 1985 in Paris, at the Palais des Congrès Studios de la Grande Armée, the second of a two-night engagement at that venue. [Carr, "Keith Jarrett", 166]

Reception

Jazz commentator Scott Yanow states that " [t] he interplay between the players was constantly impressive." [allmusic | id = 10:gxfoxqlgld0e~T1 | label] "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."cite book | last = Carr | first = Ian | coauthors=Brian Fairweather and Charles Alexander Priestley | title = The Rough Guide to Jazz | publisher = Rough Guides | date = 2004| pages = 403 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=I5wrGL-a-Q8C&pg=RA1-PT358&lpg=RA1-PT358&dq=Jarrett+%22Standards+Live%22+Grammy&source=web&ots=qwpnHEOmlK&sig=X_k_Z5NyDv9Vp9CR2_600HbPR8M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PRA1-PT365,M1 | isbn = 1843532565] 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." [Carr, "Keith Jarrett", 166-167] Carr singles out "Stella by Starlight" as here "exquisite and gripping". [Carr, "Keith Jarrett", 167]

Track listing

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

Personnel

*Jack DeJohnette – drums
*Manfred Eicher – producer
*Keith Jarrett – piano
*Franz Kafka – illustration
*Gary Peacock – double bass
*Martin Wieland – engineer
*Barbara Wojirsch – graphic design

Notes

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