Standards Live

Standards Live
Live album by Keith Jarrett
Released	January 1986[1]
Recorded	July 2, 1985
Venue	Palais des congrès de Paris Paris, France
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:19
Label	ECM 1317
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Standards, Vol. 2 (1985) Standards Live (1986) Spirits (1986)
Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette chronology
Standards, Vol. 2 (1985) Standards Live (1986) Still Live (1988)

Standards Live is a live album by the Keith Jarrett Trio recorded at the Palais des congrès de Paris on July 2, 1985, and released on ECM in January of the following year—the debut live album by Jarrett's Standards Trio, featuring rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]

Jazz commentator Scott Yanow states that "[t]he interplay between the players was constantly impressive."^[4] 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."^[5]

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," singling out "Stella by Starlight" as "exquisite and gripping".^[6]

July 1985 Tour

Standards Live was recorded during the "Standards trio" July 1985 European tour which, according to www.keithjarrett.org, offered 12 recitals in 26 days:^[7]

• 1 – Paris (France)
• 2 – Paris (France)
• 3 – Ravenna (Italy)
• 4 – Ravenna (Italy)
• 10 – Montreux (Switzerland)
• 12 – Den Haag (Netherlands)
• 15 – Lyon (France) during the Nuits de Fourvière festival
• 17 – Salon-de-Provence (France)
• 18 – San Sebastian, Donostia (Spain) during the San Sebastian Jazz Festival
• 19 – San Sebastian, Donostia (Spain)
• 23 – Antibes (France)
• 26 – Montpellier (France)

Track listing

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

Personnel

Standards Trio

• Keith Jarrett – piano
• Gary Peacock – double bass
• Jack DeJohnette – drums

Technical personnel

• Manfred Eicher – producer
  • Studio Grande Armée
• Martin Wieland – recording engineer
• Barbara Wojirsch – design
• Franz Kafka – illustration from "The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914–1923"

References

1. "Standards Live". ECM.
2. Nastos, Michael G. (2011). "Standards Live - Keith Jarrett Trio | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 769. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. label at AllMusic
5. Carr, Ian; Brian Fairweather; Charles Alexander Priestley (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz. Rough Guides. pp. 403. ISBN 1-84353-256-5. Jarrett Standards Live Grammy.
6. Carr, Keith Jarrett, 166-167
7. keithjarrett.org Keith Jarrett 1985 live concerts accessed May 12, 2020

Further reading

Carr, Ian (1992). Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80478-6.