Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Four
2. My Foolish Heart
3. Oleo
4. What's New
5. The Song Is You
6. Ain't Misbehavin'

Disc 2:

1. Honeysuckle Rose
2. You Took Advantage Of Me
3. Straight, No Chaser
4. Five Brothers
5. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
6. On Green Dolphin Street
7. Only the Lonely

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1941 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-16
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

From the Artist
"This is a concert recording I was holding onto until the right moment presented itself. It shows the trio at its most buoyant, swinging, melodic and dynamic" - Keith Jarrett

Album Description
The 25th Anniversary

Jazz's greatest piano trio. This is the best way to describe the 25-year partnership between Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. They are an institution of jazz and My Foolish Heart is their 18th recording, all on ECM. The double album was recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2001 and is an exhilarating and playful performance which romps through the history of jazz as the trio plays pieces by Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Gerry Mulligan and more, as well as a scattering of show tunes and standards from the Great American Songbook. This album is - in terms of the musical range addressed - one of the most comprehensive in the discography of Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette. This fall, ECM is also releasing a speciallypriced 3-CD box set of the first recording session that the Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette ever made together. Setting Standards is a combined reissue of Standards Vol. I, Standards Vol. II and Changes, the three albums recorded in one session at New York's Power Station in 1983. The albums have been remastered in 24bit/192kHz and the box set will include new liner notes and archival photos.

Customer Reviews

KJ meets jazz roots, classic jazz trio music results
This stuff must really come easy for Keith. The pianist known for his improvisations and thematic interludes of solo piano virtuosity in the jazz mode hooks up again with two of the most solid jazz musicians in the business today, and some wonderful takes on classic jazz tunes are digitized for the enjoyment of present and future jazz enthusiasts for years to come. Jarrett fans probably can't live without this recording, as it features some really wonderful playing and the usual complex and exciting solo work that Jarrett has become known for over the years. But having to work within the rhythm box created by DeJohnette and Peacock, KJ is kept more focused than when he plays by himself, and personally, I find the result much more satisfying. I'm also a sucker for standards and show tunes, so I really appreciate their cleverly stylistic renditions of songs like Ain't Misbehavin', You Took Advantage of Me, and Honeysuckle Rose. I can only give this four stars because, as good as Jarrett is, he will always be Keith Jarrett, which means, he will always be making those irritating "chicken-being-stepped-on" noises during his performance. When he's close to the rhythm and melody, it isn't so bad, but sometimes he just screeches, and I find that annoying. That is, however, a minor quibble. I find it hard to believe this didn't even merit a listing in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings), as I think it is at least as good as the CD in their core collection, The Köln Concert. I would say anybody who is thinking about buying this CD shouldn't hesitate any more. I think the familiar tunes also make this a good choice for non-jazz enthusiasts looking to broaden their music collection.

Pure Jarrett in every way
The music is unsurprisingly glorious, as most of what this trio has played over the past 25 or so years.
For Jarrett critics, probably the best quote in the history of Jarrett's self-indulgence, from the liner notes "I want to thank Gary and Jack for sharing the struggle for artistic survival in a world of fakery, thoughtlessness, mimicry, diffidence, apathy, unconsciousness, laziness, empty virtuosity, ignorance and self-deceit." Amen.

Jarrett does it all
Well thats another Standards Trio album I've had to buy. I've already got at least a dozen CD's of this Trio, including the monumental Live at the Blue Note boxed set. Why did I have to buy this? Because Jarrett plays three stride style pieces on this double album. He's hinted at this style before with the standards trio on 'Wrap your Troubles in Dreams' (from Whisper Not) and completely pulverised the style on 'Old Rag' (from Somewhere Before).

Not surprisingly his performances of the stride style here are very good. The pick of the bunch is Ain't Misbehavin' which has some inspired solos, using harmonies that Fats Waller certainly wouldn't have played, and exchanging short solos with JJ near the end. Unlike the previous reviewers I did not find these tracks reminding me of Woody Allen films or find Jack DeJohnette's drumming at all out of place. I suppose it depends on what you are used to. I was brought up listening to stride Piano, and although it isn't the style I listen to most of the time, its great to hear it played by a modern Jazz great like Keith Jarrett.

So what about if you hate stride Piano? Well the remaining ten tracks are up to the usual impeccable standard. A great mixture of ballads and standards that the Trio play with great panache.

The only problem with this Trio is the huge volume of material that has been released over the last 20+ years. However when I heard 'On Green Dolphin Street' from this album I knew I had to give it five stars. I already have a previous version of this by the standards trio (in the Blue Note boxed set) which I have played and played so I thought I might find this new version a bit to samey. Not a chance; Jarrett genuinely tries to improvise on every performance. So yes a few patterns are the same but apart from the tune this is another completely unique performance of the same tune!

Overall 9/10