Standards, Vol. 2

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Standards, Vol. 2
Keith Jarrett's studio album

Publication
(s)

1985

admission

1983

Label (s) ECM records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

jazz

occupation

production

Manfred Eicher

Studio (s)

Power Station New York City

chronology
Changes
1984 		Standards, Vol. 2 Still Live
1986

Standards, Vol. 2 is a jazz album by Keith Jarrett , recorded in January 1983 and released in 1985 by ECM Records .

The album

Jarrett had already worked with drummer Jack DeJohnette in the Charles Lloyd Quartet in 1966 and with Miles Davis in 1970/71. This gave birth to the first album that Jarrett recorded for the ECM label, Ruta & Daitya.In February 1977, the three musicians collaborated for the first time on Gary Peacock's album Tales of Another , in which the playing of the later standard trio was already suggested: It remains astonishing Jarrett biographer Andresen wrote about this album that the musicians have an enormous understanding for each other . In January 1983, on Jarrett's initiative, this same trio was revived for the recording of the two standards albums and the LP Changes (with the pianist's own compositions). Keith Jarrett used the encores on his previous solo appearances to improvise over jazz standards . Short and melodic, mostly very catchy songs also challenge him to develop melodically. Jarrett saw three reasons that prompted him to play standards:

Point one is that the non-compatibility of music must be remembered, as well as the standards from the repertoire of other musicians. The second thing is that respect for music that is not your own gives you access to it. Third, the three of us have played this music at similar points in our lives and have had similar experiences. We grew up with these songs; they pushed us and became a language we will never forget. Jarrett went on to say about the understanding with his fellow musicians: We actually had no doubt how we could play these songs. If there were any doubts, it was only about how far we could get - and that was my responsibility because it was my idea. But it was important that we didn't talk about it because the common language had long been shared. And this language was probably the entry point for each of us ...

Jarrett's first trio not only adopted the tonal and creative balance that Bill Evans had given in his trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian , but continued it with rare consistency , notes Andresen on these albums. The trio Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette, with all their spontaneity, drives this moment of equality, even equilibrium, to a peak of lived musicality.

Werner Burkhardt , who observed the session, later judged: "No doubt, the preoccupation with tradition has given Keith Jarrett a new sense of security in dealing with his own freedom".

At the recording session of the trio, whose engineer was Jan Erik Kongshaug , material for three albums was recorded. The titles Meaning of the Blues, All the Things You Are , It Never Entered my Mind, The Masquerade Is Over and God Bless the Child appeared on “Standards, Vol. 1” (ECM 1255). The Jarrett compositions Flying and Prism were released on the album "Changes" (ECM 1276). Only later was the rest of the session published as “Standards, Vol. 2”, but also contains an original composition by Jarrett called So Tender . Some of the other pieces on this album are compared to “Vol. 1 “lesser known standards. In a conversation that appeared in the French magazine Jazz Hot , Jarrett points out in particular Never Let Me Go , which is the most melodic piece that he has ever heard interpreted by a trio. For his game in 1983 he did not use the version by Bill Evans , but a vocal version by Nancy Wilson .

The titles

  • The album "Standards Vol. 2" (ECM 1289) contains the following titles:
  1. So Tender (Keith Jarrett) 7:15
  2. Moon and Sand ( Alec Wilder , William Engvick , Mortimer Palitz ) 8:55
  3. In Love In Vain ( Jerome Kern , Leo Robin ) 7:06
  4. Never Let Me Go ( Raymond Evans , Jay Livingston ) 7:42
  5. If I Should Lose You ( Ralph Reunger , Leo Robin ) 8:29
  6. I Fall In Love So Easily ( Sammy Cahn , Jule Styne ) 5:12

Awards

Unlike the other two albums that emerged from the recording session, “Standards, Vol. 2” was recognized as Record of the Year by both Hi-Fi Vision and Jazz Life Magazine . Cook and Morton award them the highest grade in the Penguin Guide to Jazz .

Aftermath of the 1983 session

This session began a long series of record releases and concert recordings by the trio of Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette, for which the name "Standards Trio" soon emerged. Apart from a performance at Village Vanguard in 1983, the trio did not go on tour with Standards until 1985, as Jarrett concentrated on the interpretation of classical piano music in 1984. Except for a brief guest appearance by Paul Motian in 1992 ( At the Deer Head Inn (ECM, 1994)) the line-up of the trio remained constant.

Literature / sources

Remarks

  1. ↑ Recorded in March 1971, not on the initiative of Manfred Eicher, but because a friend in the “Sunset Studio” offered the two of them, who were in Los Angeles with Davis at the time, to record them during their free time. Facing You was recorded as an Eicher production in Oslo in November 1971 and released before Ruta & Daitya . See I. Carr, Keith Jarrett, pp. 56, 60.
  2. ↑ Jarrett had suggested to Eicher to record an album with jazz standards with this line-up, which initially alienated Peacock in particular. See I. Carr, Keith Jarrett, p. 144
  3. ↑ cit. after Andresen, p. 172
  4. ↑ His report "The truth of the ecstatic. Keith Jarrett plays jazz standards in Manhattan" first appeared in 1991 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is included in the book "Klänge Zeiten Musikanten" (Oreos, Waakirchen 2002)
  5. ↑ cit. after Andresen, p. 174
  6. ^ After I. Carr, K. Jarrett, p. 147
  7. ↑ Cf. Internet discography by K. Jarrett ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keithjarrett.org
  8. ^ I. Carr, K. Jarrett, p. 148