Changes (Keith Jarrett album)
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LP, CD |
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3 |
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37:19 |
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Power Station Studio, New York City |
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Changes is an album by Keith Jarrett , Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette . It was created during the studio sessions in January 1983, when the trio's first two albums, Standards, Vol. 1 and Standards, Vol. 2 were recorded. It was released in 1984 on ECM Records . In 2007 ECM released the three albums together in the new edition Setting Standards - New York Sessions .
background
When the trio got together in New York's Power Station studio in January 1983, Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette had already met on Peacock's album Tales of Another (ECM, 1977). While Peacock's session consisted exclusively of original compositions by the bassist, the trio around Keith Jarrett in 1983 mainly played jazz standards that came from the Great American Songbook . At the same time, other material was created that was not based on third-party compositions.
John Kelman described the Changes session: The two-part "Flying" that makes up the main part of Changes can be attributed to Jarrett in terms of composition; However, it is practically a 30-minute free improvisation, ranging from Peacock's pedal tone in the first half of the introspective “Flying Part 1” to the more lively “Part 2”, where the steadfast gait of the bassist offers not only Jarrett's unrestricted support for free play, but also for DeJohnette, who delivers a strong but undeniably easy-going pulse before going on to his most pulsating solo of the entire standards session. The ballad-like “Prism” is the only example of a prepared composition by Jarrett.
Track list
- Keith Jarrett: Changes (ECM Records ECM 1276)
- Flying, Part One - 16:03
- Flying, Part Two - 14:45
- Prism - 6:31
All compositions are by Keith Jarrett.
reception
The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album three (out of four) stars and wrote in The Penguin Guide to Jazz , Changes contains original material that is deeply subversive and deeply subversive and the entire tradition of jazz as a system of improvisation over the harmony changes ( Changes ) respectfully perceives. Typically, Jarrett uses the term with entirely new aesthetic and philosophical considerations.
In his review of the Edition Setting Standards 2008 for All About Jazz, John Kelman said : “When re-evaluating this music, it is important to consider the musical climate of the time. Around 1983, the experimental character of jazz of the 1960s and 1970s developed into a new neoconservatism, which was supported by up-and-coming Young Lions , including Wynton Marsalis . It might even be possible to understand Jarrett's departure from more experimental works such as the organ album Invocations / The Moth and the Flame (ECM, 1981) and the classically-oriented The Celestial Hawk (ECM, 1980) in terms of the pianist's aim to gain part of this audience. But it is a mistake to believe that the audience has bought a growing revisionist and reductionist view of jazz. "
S. Victor Aaron judged Something Else! , Changes is a contrast to the productions Standards Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (created in the same sessions) ; it “shows continuity at the same time. Here we hear the same team tackle more abstract compositions that take longer to reveal themselves. ”The first part of“ Flying ”is“ almost a free-flowing stream of modal consciousness, while the second part is a funky shuffle that turns itself dissolves into a terrific DeJohnette drum solo. It's almost as if Jarrett composed the tune on site, and maybe he did, just as he had for the past decade, unaccompanied, for audiences around the world. But adding Peacock and DeJohnette to the mix and hearing that they can follow and even anticipate Jarrett's next steps is something unusual for a combo . Its magical."
Overall, Changes is not much different from the music that Jarrett would have played with his European quartet of the 1970s, Aaron continues. "Prism" is a remake of a Jarrett song from this quartet. Changes thus "establish an important connection to his works from the seventies with his trio from the eighties and beyond."
Scott Yanow gave the album four (out of five) stars in Allmusic and said it was "a nice change to hear Jarrett (who usually plays unaccompanied) interact with a trio of great players."
Thom Jurek wrote, also in Allmusic on the occasion of the new edition, that the first part of “Flying” was a bit more marginal, but Jarett's lyrical playing “is still flowing and immediate.” In fact, it underlines “what has already happened and the voice of what will come next. Gary Peacock plays great. His rhythmic pulse and harmonic foundation offer both DeJohnette and Jarrett so much freedom and support that he has become an unchanging, but always renewable force of musical language in relation to the jazz idiom. The final moments consist of a six and a half minute improvisation called Prism , which is actually a Jarrett composition due to its melodic structure and rhythmic flow. It is pure poetry and a reflection of how deeply the songs in the two previous volumes influenced his own playing and composing - but this also applies to the entire trio as a unit. "
Web links
- Keith Jarrett: Setting Standards . ECM, December 21, 2011, accessed March 17, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b John Kelman: Keith Jarrett: Setting Standards - New York Sessions. All About Jazz, January 16, 2008, accessed March 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Discographic information at Discogs
- ^ Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 2nd Edition. Penguin, London 1994, pp. 684 f.
- ^ S. Victor Aaron: Keith Jarrett: Changes . Something Else, January 24, 2008, accessed March 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Review of Scott Yanow's album Changes at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ↑ Review of Thom Jurek's album Setting Standards at Allmusic . Retrieved March 17, 2018.