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Article: Keith Jarrett.(Setting Standards: New York Sessions)(Sound recording review)
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- December 1, 2008
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Keith Jarrett. Setting Standards: New York Sessions. ECM 2030-32, 2008.
Is there anything more frustrating than a standards album by Keith Jarrett's brilliant trio? Put one of the finest and most inventive jazz pianists ever to touch a keyboard into a studio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, ask them to put their personal mark on some of the most enduring compositions of the American repertoire, and the results can hardly fail to be stunning. Peacock and Jarrett enjoy the kind of rapport that characterized the all-too-brief collaborative relationship of Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro, while DeJohnette has the kind of expansive tonal vocabulary ...