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JJ 07/86: Keith Jarrett – Standards Live
['Jazz Journal']
Jazz Journal
After two volumes of studio standards, now the predictable live set – six more standards given the Jarrett treatment before a Parisian audience in July last year.
As before the mix is of the great and the less well-known, all slow to mid-tempo numbers played with a deceptive approach that is sometimes lightweight but never throwaway in its impact.
Jarrett has for the moment abandoned his solo piano improvisations in favour of trio performances, but I for one miss the excesses of his solo work, finding the material here too unsubstantial for Jarrett’s particular skill to transform and transcend.
But perhaps a set of modern standards by the likes of Coltrane or Coleman might put that to rights.
DiscographyStella By Starlight; The Wrong Blues; Falling In Love With Love (26.39) – Too Young To Go Steady; The Way You Look Tonight; The Old Country (22.30)Keith Jarrett (p); Gary Peacock (b); Jack DeJohnette (d).