Somewhere (album)
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Somewhere is a jazz album by Keith Jarrett , Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette , which was recorded on July 11, 2009 at a concert of the trio in the Culture and Convention Center Lucerne and released on May 13, 2013 on ECM Records .
background
After suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome from 1996–1998 for more than two years , the pianist Keith Jarrett first recorded the solo album The Melody at Night, with You in 1998 ; This was followed by concerts by his standards trio, published on the albums After the Fall (released 2018), Whisper Not (2000), Inside Out (2001), Always Let Me Go (2002), Up for It (2003), The Out-of-Towners (2004), My Foolish Heart (2007) and Yesterdays (2009).
Track list
- Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Somewhere (ECM 2200)
- Deep Space (Jarrett) / Solar ( Miles Davis ) 15:09
- Stars Fell on Alabama (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish ) 7:27
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea ( Harold Arlen , Ted Koehler ) 10:02
- Somewhere ( Leonard Bernstein , Stephen Sondheim) / Everywhere (Jarrett) 19:37
- Tonight (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) 6:49
- I Thought About You ( Jimmy van Heusen , Johnny Mercer ) 6:29
reception
Thom Jurek said in Allmusic that it was “almost unnecessary [...] to write about Keith Jarrett's three-year-old standards trio. Because of their recordings, it is easy to see why they are considered by many to be the greatest living piano trio. ”Since the three previous albums were all from a tour in 2001, this recording from Lucerne“ reflects an eight year growth phase ”.
“The opener is a Jarrett improvisation called 'Deep Space', which is a solid introduction to Miles Davis ' 'Solar' and has already been recorded by this group several times, but never with the lyrical audacity and rumbling counterpoint that Peacock does here . offers " Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler , Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 'will be interpreted with a bright reading, Thom Jurek continued; Jarrett plays chunky, staggered chords that slide to 4/4 time in dialogue with DeJohnette. Peacock binds their conversation as he finds his own way in and out of an implied but never directly engaged sense of momentum. The two interpretations of Leonard Bernstein's eponymous piece and 'Tonight' from the West Side Story would dominate the scene; former "is a 19-minute extravaganza that begins in entertaining, shimmering beauty and is reduced to the essentials before they reconstructed and the building blocks into the driving hypnotic improvised Ostinato -Coda of Jarrett, Everywhere 'with breathtaking chord voicings is converted . In addition, there are powerful, medium-weight basses, impressive tom-tom and cymbal work by DeJohnette. 'Tonight' is performed at a near sprint pace and played with finger popping swing and a happy finish. Jimmy Van Heusen's and Johnny Mercer's ballad 'I Thought About You' closes the set more calmly because there is simply nowhere else that much electricity is in the air. It is a gentle, graceful and elegant way to end another sublime chapter in the recorded legacy of this group. "
In All About Jazz, John Kelman asks (which is posed by even some of his most passionate fans) "whether this undeniably beautiful trio had something new to say." But with Jarrett 's a cappella opening up to the performance of Miles Davis' 'Solar' "all doubts are put to rest when the pianist delivers a performance that rivals its classic introduction to ' My Funny Valentine ' on Still Live (ECM, 1988), one of the Standard Trio's strongest moments." Miles-Davis-Köassiker, the trio work their way through a list of equally classical songwriters . “Peacock finds a particularly lovely work by Frank Perkins and Mitchell Parish's 'Stars Fell on Alabama', who combines pure taste and sound and is at the top of his game. A whimsical take on Harold Arlens and Ted Koehler's 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' is largely based on this trio's remarkable ability to suggest momentum without actually playing it. The whole structure is ready to collapse like a house of cards at any moment. In fact, never - even when DeJohnette took his only real solo out of the set, while Jimmy van Heusen's and Johnny Mercer's ballad 'I Thought About You' rests the set on an irresistibly romantic note based on the trio's egalitarian nature. "
But there are Leonard Bernstein's two classics from the 1957 musical West Side Story that are at the heart of Somewhere , says John Kelman. "A deeply beautiful rendition of 'Somewhere' leads to Jarrett's long coda 'Everywhere', which builds this almost 20-minute exercise into a powerful climax and ultimately leads to a gospel-like ending while 'Tonight' appears unexpectedly bright."
John Garratt was critical of Pop Matters: “When it came to Keith Jarrett's recordings, I always had a preference for his improvised piano solos, which were often named after the city in which he happened to be performing. It's not that I have anything against Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette who play standards who are 50 years old or older. It's just that these releases like La Scala , Solo Concerts Bremen / Lausanne , The Köln Concert and Radiance are the full embodiment of the new. They didn't exist until Jarrett sat down at his piano. Music that was just created from a series of moments. No pen, no paper, just a series of specific moments that cannot be replicated. But when I finally got a good listen to Somewhere , I realized that this phenomenon also applies to Jarrett's standard trio. Yes, 'Stars Fell on Alabama' and 'Between the Devil and thr deep Blue Sea' existed before the tapes started rolling - long before that. But Keith Jarrett's wild piano solos and idiosyncratic moans certainly didn't exist in these songs. In this sense there is always something new that can be taken from such albums. ” Somewhere is another quality album by Keith Jarrett's standard trio, the author sums up. “For Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette, it's as usual. And as always, business is good. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album information at ECM
- ↑ Review of Thom Jurek's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ↑ John Kelman: Keith Jarrett: Somewhere. All About Jazz, May 21, 2013, accessed March 1, 2019 .
- ↑ John Garratt: Keith Jarrett: Somewhere. Pop Matters, May 21, 2013, accessed March 1, 2019 .