Bye Bye Blackbird (Keith Jarrett album)
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CD |
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8th |
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68:00 |
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Power Station Studio, New York City |
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Bye Bye Blackbird is a jazz album by Keith Jarrett , Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette , which was recorded on October 12, 1991 at Power Station Studio in New York and released in 1993 on ECM Records .
background
Two weeks after the death of Miles Davis , Keith Jarrett recorded the album Bye Bye Blackbird, dedicated to him, with his Standards Trio . The live recording of The Cure was made over a year earlier in New York . All three musicians had worked with the trumpeter in the course of their careers: Gary Peacock played sporadically as a substitute for Ron Carter in the Miles Davis Quintet from 1964 to 1967 , but without recording with Davis. Jack DeJohnette joined his band at the time in 1969 for the Bitches Brew recordings and was then involved in a number of other important albums, such as Black Beauty, Miles Davis at Fillmore, Live / Evil and Big Fun . Young Keith Jarrett also worked on the recordings for Miles Davis at Fillmore and Live / Evil . “It was perhaps the apocalyptic roar of the Fillmore band that Jarrett - who has long been devoted exclusively to acoustic music - had in the back of his mind when he wrote in the liner notes for Bye Bye Blackbird : It didn't matter how much 'noise' surrounded him, Miles himself always stood for silence, the notes he played always had a purity of their own. (...) Miles proved the impotence of 'technicians' and the power of pure desire. "
After the musicians learned that Miles Davis had died on September 28, 1991, they arranged to meet at the New York studio Power Station to record some career-related tracks in memory of their former employer. “That happened in October 1991, two weeks after Miles passed away. However, since they already knew that the market would soon be inundated with Miles tributes - both honest and opportunistic - Jarrett and ECM agreed to withhold the recordings until the dust settled Miles's death whirled up, would have settled a little. The emotional quality of the music would be preserved. ”When selecting the tracks, the focus was on Miles Davis' music from the late 1950s to early 1960s.
The trumpeter recorded the title track of the album " Bye Bye Blackbird " for the first time in 1956 for the album 'Round About Midnight , the Thelonious Monk title " Straight No Chaser " in 1958; he later appeared on the recording of Miles at Newport . The standard " I Thought About You " was written in 1961 for Someday My Prince Will Come , "Summer Night" in 1963 for Quiet Nights and "You Won't Forget Me" was played by Miles Davis as a guest musician in 1990 for the Shirley Horn album of the same name. Only Oliver Nelson's "Butch and Butch" was never recorded by Miles Davis; it was found on Nelson's 1961 album The Blues and the Abstract Truth .
Track list
- Keith Jarrett Trio: Bye Bye Blackbird (ECM 1467)
- Bye Bye Blackbird ( Ray Henderson / Mort Dixon ) - 11:14
- You Wont Forget Me (Fred Spielmann / Kermit Goell) - 10:47
- Butch and Butch ( Oliver Nelson ) - 6:37
- Summer Night ( Harry Warren / Al Dubin ) - 6:43
- For Miles (Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette) - 18:44
- Straight No Chaser ( Thelonious Monk ) - 6:48
- I Thought About You ( Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Mercer ) - 4:03
- Blackbird, Bye Bye (Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette) - 3:00
Cover
The cover photo was taken by photographer Catherine Bichonniere.
reception
The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton praised in The Penguin Guide to Jazz that Bye Bye Blackbird was an excellent album; "The choice of materials is refreshingly inconspicuous and played flawlessly". The two original compositions are felt as intensely as anything Jarrett has done in recent years, and the level of abstraction is well calculated and unobtrusive.
Jazz Echo wrote, “All of these numbers and the improvisation 'For Miles' convey something of the spirit of that era, and Jarrett clearly enjoys quoting Wynton Kelly and Red Garland in his own playing. Even the sound of this new album was, at Jarrett's emphatic request, calibrated to the aesthetics of the early 1960s: unlike Jarrett's other ECM recordings, which are much more 'spacious', this recording sounds like it was in a small, cramped jazz club has been recorded. The musicians strive to live up to the standards set by Miles and his ability to advance to the irreducible essence of music: 'Miles was a medium, a transformer, a touchstone, a magnetic field: the authentic minimalist (who, though he played so few notes, communicated so much in those few notes). '"
Richard S. Ginell gave the album 4½ (out of 5) stars in Allmusic , emphasizing, “The lonely figure in the shadow with a horn on the cover contrasts with the joyful spirit of many of the tracks on this CD. Yet there is still a ghostly presence, ”Jarrett's selection of notes is often more targeted than usual. "There is symmetry in the organization of the album, with the opening of 'Bye Bye Blackbird' and the equally lighthearted 'Blackbird, Bye Bye' of the trio that closes the album." The heart of the CD is the 18-minute group improvisation ' For Miles ', which turns into a rumble after a few DeJohnette nudges, sometimes reminiscent of Miles Davis' own elegy for Duke Ellington , namely "He Loved Him Madly" on Get Up with It . "As an immediate response to a traumatic event," the author sums up, "Jarrett and his colleagues find the right emotional balance to create one of their most expressive albums."
For Steve Wyzard, too, the improvisation “For Miles” is “... one of the highlights, ... with an absolutely amazing percussion performance by Jack DeJohnette, and one of the best ballads that this group has ever recorded: 'You Won' t Forget Me '. After 10:42 am full of awe-inspiring heaviness, however, a big mistake is made by following the stubborn 'Butch and Butch': The coexistence of the two is just too hard. ”Otherwise, this album is warmly recommended to fans of the performers.
The journal Entertainment Weekly said that with Bye Bye Blackbird the trio washed up a more musky than a sad late-night dreamer for a deceased master.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The big series for the anniversary: Episode No. 07 - Bye Bye Blackbird . Jazz Echo, June 6, 2013, accessed March 1, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Bye Bye Blackbird. Entertainment Weekly, August 6, 1993, accessed March 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Album information at ECM
- ↑ a b Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, p. 783.
- ^ Review of Richard S. Ginett's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 1, 2019.
- ↑ KEITH JARRETT - Bye Bye Blackbird (review). Jazz Music Archives, October 1, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018 .