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Joe Henderson: Power to the People
by Tom Greenland
Joe Henderson enjoyed widespread popularity only late in his career, when his cover albums for Verve achieved high (for jazz) sales figures, but since the early '60s he had been making excellent records, both as a sideman and a leader. Here at last is 1969's Power to the People, one of his best recordings made for Orrin Keepnews' Milestone label, previously available only as part of the boxed set The Milestone Years. Power to the People features ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by Nenad Georgievski
There's not a whole lot 63 year-old jazz legend Keith Jarrett hasn't achieved in his illustrious forty year career as a recording and performing artist. He has recorded more than fifty albums in various formats, and each project has a special significance for his fans. The Keith Jarrett Trio has come a long way from its bright start in 1983. The success of three consecutive albums, two of jazz standards--Standards, Vol.1 (ECM, 1985) and Standards, Vol. 2 (ECM, 1985)--and the ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by Joel Roberts
Listeners have come to expect several things from the trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette in the 25 years that the group's been engaged in its extended modernist exploration of the Great American Songbook: remarkable musicianship, extreme seriousness and a fairly predictable repertoire. That's what makes the trio's 18th release on the ECM label, somewhat of a surprise. A complete, nearly two-hour concert recorded in 2001, My Foolish Heart finds Jarrett and company in ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by Budd Kopman
From the first groan emitted by pianist Keith Jarrett on “Meaning Of The Blues," from Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM, 1985), to the last seconds of the ending cadence of “Prism," from Changes (ECM, 1984) and everything in between, the music and playing on Setting Standards: New York Sessions--a three-CD box that collects these two titles along with Standards, Vol. 2 (ECM, 1985)--signals its unique place in jazz history. The music is timeless, not only because the first ...
Continue ReadingJarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by Dan McClenaghan
The surprise for the folks who haven't followed the quarter century span of Keith Jarrett's Standard Trio--those who jumped onboard with, say, Live at the Blue Note (ECM, 1995), or Up For It (ECM, 2003)--will be just how good these guys were right from the very start. Things just seemed to click into place on their first trip to the studio in 1983, when Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette went into Power Station in New York to ...
Continue ReadingKeith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Setting Standards is a clever repackaging of three Keith Jarrett Standards Trio releases: Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM, 1985), Standards, Vol. 2 (ECM, 1985) and Changes (ECM 1984). These releases were the ostensible ground zero for what would go on to be the pianist's Standards Trio for the next twenty-five years.
This limited release box set is a perfect introduction to both Jarrett and the trio, in addition to the concept and recognition of what a jazz standard is. ...
Continue ReadingSetting Standards: New York Sessions
by John Kelman
It's hard to believe that Keith Jarrett's “standards" trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, has been around for a quarter of a century. It's not just the pianist's longest lasting ensemble, but one of most permanent line-ups in jazz history. To celebrate the occasion, ECM Records has released Setting Standards: New York Sessions, a three-CD set which brings together the entire output of the trio's first session, a remarkably fruitful one that resulted in not ...
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