The Out-of-Towners (Album)

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Keith Jarrett (2003)

The Out-of-Towners is a live album by the American jazz trio Keith Jarrett , Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette , which on 28 July 2001 in the Bavarian State Opera received in Munich on August 31, 2004 by ECM Records released has been.

The out-of-towners
Music album Template: Infobox music album / maintenance / type undetectedby Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette

Publication
(s)

August 31, 2004

admission

July 28, 2001

Label (s) Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM)

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

6th

running time

68:07

occupation Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette

production

Manfred Eicher

Location (s)

Bavarian State Opera Munich

chronology
Up for It
(2002) 		The out-of-towners Radiance
(2005)

The album

For the three musicians, who first released an album together in 1977 (" Tales of Another " (ECM, 1977)) and presented their first album as a Standards Trio in 1983 ("Standards, Vol. 1" (ECM, 1983)), was 2001 was a very productive and intensive year of their 24-year collaboration. In April 2001 they had several concerts in Tokyo , which were recorded on the albums "Always Let Me Go" (ECM, 2001) and "Yesterdays" (ECM, 2009), on July 22nd an appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the Switzerland, which is documented on the album "My Foolish Heart: Live At Montreux" (ECM, 2007) and then six days later a concert in the Bavarian State Opera, which is on the album "The Out-of-Towners" (ECM, 2004 ) can be heard.

In the content of the album, Joshua Weiner describes in his review for Allmusic.com : “'The Out-of-Towners' documents a very good concert. Jarrett's intro to ' I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me ' manages to be lovely and captivating at the same time and the other two band members get involved in the game as smoothly as if they were extensions of the pianist's fingers. ' You've Changed ' illustrates how the trio play their standards without deconstructing them or losing the thread of the melody, how they develop the pieces in a way that makes them new inventions. The title track, the obligatory original composition by Jarrett, is the slightly longer highlight of the album: a funky blues with gospel echoes, which is characterized by the wonderful solo play by Gary Peacock and is as deep as it can be. Gerry Mulligan 's 'Five Brothers' swings cheerfully, with simple but effective play by Jarrett. An enchanting run through Cole Porter 's 'I Love You' is only interrupted by an elongated and disappointing cymbal solo by DeJohnette, which is very static and interrupts the flow of the game. For anyone ... who doesn't know the trio yet, 'The Out-of-Towners' is the best introduction to the group's work. "

Bavarian State Opera Munich at Max Josef Platz

Also in 2002 there was with “Up For It” (ECM, 2002) a live concert by the Standards Trio documented on album, a recording from the 42nd Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival,  Antibes  on July 16, 2002. After that, No new album by Trio e

The contributors

The musicians and their instruments

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

The production staff

  • Sascha Kleis - design
  • Martin Pearson - recording technology
  • Morten Lund - Mastering
  • Thomas Wunsch - cover photo
  • Roberto Masotti - photos of the trio in the booklet
  • Wilfried Hösl - photos of the booklet
  • Manfred Eicher - producer

The playlist

  1. Intro / I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me ( Clarence Gaskill ,  Jimmy McHugh ) - 12:10
  2. You've Changed (Carl T. Fischer, Bill Carey) - 8:13
  3. I Love You ( Cole Porter ) - 10:00
  4. The Out-of-Towners (Keith Jarrett) - 7.45pm
  5. Five Brothers ( Gerry Mulligan ) - 11:12
  6. It's All in the Game ( Charles Dawes ,  Carl Sigman ) - 6:47

The reception

The reception of the album in the German-speaking media is exclusively positive.

The newspaper Financial Times Deutschland wrote : “Among the piano trios of current jazz, the combo around Keith Jarrett, the double bass player Gary Peacock and the drummer Jack DeJohnette has always claimed the title special class. And with  The Out-of-Towners , the now finally published recording of this concert, they underline the claim. They drift casually and intensely through the realm of their music, digging into the inner mechanics of a standard ballad for a moment, then wrestling from it an excursion into tonally tense tonal areas, which they color with refined swing and the richness of timbres of an astonishingly diverse palette. ... From the calm and familiarity of a collaboration that has lasted for more than 20 years, this trio plays fresh and free, pure and stubborn, as if straight from the source of jazz. "

Similarly, the magazine Stereo (9/04): “The 'standards trio' in the usual class…. With the exception of the title track, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette played well-known songs and a modern jazz number in which they once again demonstrate that in jazz it's not the material that counts, but what you make of it. "

And Stereoplay 9/04 says: “What a concert recording! Pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette are just a dream team. It's a pleasure to watch them… communicate with each other across four standards and keep throwing in new ideas. The climax is a blues that grows out of freely improvised fragments and slowly gains strength. "

Jazzecho.de knows: “Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette are probably the only trio in the world that could do a whole concert evening with always new interpretations of the same song without getting bored for a second. On 'The Out-Of-Towners' the trio surpasses itself once more. "

The Fono Forum comments: “In Munich, too, the trio turns its weightless paths, buries itself in the labyrinths of their own composition. Listen to Cole Porter's 'I Love You'. These are all great moments. "

And the Rheinische Merkur writes: "At the beginning and at the end Jarrett alone at the piano, in between a lesson in sovereignty: fragile beauty, pearly runs, tempo, clever interactions, risky arcs of tension, harmony as a great continuation of a great story."

The quality of the recording is also praised. So writes Weltwoche : "Undoubtedly this is ... one of the most technically brillantesten recordings of the trio. This has been moving for years on a plateau where others feel thin. "

Despite the many words of praise and recommendations, there were only a few official awards in German-speaking countries. After all, the album made it onto the 4/2004 best list at the “ Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik ”.

The international media react similarly positively:

The Guardian awards 4 out of 5 stars and states with regard to Keith Jarrett and his trio: “There are exactly two qualities that have distinguished his work since returning to the stage after his illness: a renewed simplicity and the will to internal symmetry not to destroy a good song as well as the increased efforts of the ensemble to make their works more dialogue-oriented. "

Allmusic also awarded four out of 5 stars with the reasoning: “Out-of-Towners honors the Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette Trio for the kind of performance we have been expecting from them for 21 years: Brilliant. To be one of the longest standing bands in contemporary jazz has its advantages; one of them is no longer having to prove anything. First and foremost, this band plays standards like no other. Against the background of their individual careers, playing standards means a certain freedom for the members of the trio, but also a burden ... Besides the amazing performance, the sound of this recording should be considered. Her warmth can be felt directly, her very close and intimate sound gives the listener the impression he is in the middle of the stage and not in the audience. This is a mature achievement in every respect. "

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded 4 out of 4 stars.

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  1. ↑ see review of the album at allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved January 17, 2017 : "Familiarity-bred contempt aside," The Out-of-Towners "does document a corking good gig. Jarrett's intro to "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" manages to be lovely and intriguing at the same time, and the group enters so smoothly that they seem to be extensions of the pianist's own fingers. "You've Changed" demonstrates how this group can take a standard and, without deconstructing it or losing the line of the original melody, open it up in a way that allows it to swell with new invention. The title track, an obligatory Jarrett original, is a lengthy highlight here: a funky blues with gospel touches, it features some wonderful soloing by Peacock and is as deep-down as can be. Gerry Mulligan's "Five Brothers" swings as brightly as it should, with some effectively simple playing by Jarrett. An engaging run through Cole Porter's "I Love You" is let down only by a lengthy cymbals-only solo by DeJohnette that is strangely static and spoils the flow. For anyone living under the proverbial rock who is unfamiliar with this trio, The Out-of-Towners makes as good an introduction as any of the group's recent work. "
  2. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland quoted from ecmrecords.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stereo magazine quoted from ecmrecords.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Stereoplay magazine quoted from ecmrecords.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  5. ↑ see review of the album at jazzecho.de. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Fono Forum quoted from ecmrecords.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Rheinischer Merkur quoted from ecmrecords.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Weltwoche quoted from ecmrecords.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ see ecmrecords.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ see review of the album at theguardian.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 : "Yet two qualities of his work since his return to the stage in 2000 after illness are evident: a renewed simplicity and willingness to leave the inner symmetries of good songs alone, and a redoubled ensemble strength that has made the group's work increasingly conversational. "
  11. ↑ see review of the album at allmusic.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 : “Out of Towners features the Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette trio in the kind of performance we've come to expect from them these last 21 years: Stellar. Being one of contemporary jazz's longest-running bands has its advantages; one of them is having nothing to prove. First and foremost, this band plays standards like no one else. Given their individual careers, the members playing in a trio that performs classics carries a kind of freedom, as well as weight. ... Besides the wondrous performance, the sound of this recording should be noted. Its warmth is immediate, its very close and intimate sound makes the listener feel as if she were in the middle of the stage taking this all in, not in the audience. This is an accomplishment on all fronts. "
  12. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 9th edition. Penguin, 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0 , pp. 771 .