Still Live [Live, Original recording reissued]

Keith Jarrett | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live, Original recording reissued
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B0000260CN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,020 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. My Funny Valentine

2. Autumn Leaves

3. When I Fall In Love

4. The Song Is You

Disc: 2

1. Come Rain Or Come Shine

2. Late Lament

3. You And The Night And The Music

4. Extension/Intro/Someday My Prince Will Come

5. Billie's Bounce

6. I Remember Clifford

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Live is Jarrett and his trio at top form, December 24, 1999

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Ramona Westbank (Newnan, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Still Live (Audio CD)

Jarrett's best recording have that very rare quality of becoming better each time you listen to them. Still Live exemplifies that quality. Each time I put this CD on, I get lost in it. The third cut on Disc 2, which starts wtih You and the Night and the Music and transitions into Someday My Prince will Come is intoxicatingly beautiful. Jarrett's sublime piano work is set off perfectly by the restrained but exhilerating side work of Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. If I had to own only one Jarrett recording (and that would be a miserable fate!), this would be it.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing!, November 12, 2001

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C. David LaRoche (Halifax, N.S.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Still Live (Audio CD)

This is the Standard Trio's best single offering (The Complete At The Blue Note is on par with this one, but alas, is expensive and not recommended to most listeners new to the trio). Here we have exactly what the trio set out to do: take standard tunes, play them well, and then go farther - to find new music in the tunes, to transcend notation and venture into the sublime. This album achieves just that - on every single track. All players at at their best here: DeJohnettes rhythmic inventiveness, Peacock's lyrical high-octave playing and athletic soloing, Jarrett's stunning,frantic assymetrical lines, inventive and orchestral piano intros, and his tell-tale gospel-tinged funk-oriented gooves and ostinatos. All come to play in perfect hegemony all over this disc, and often the musicians break out into what can only be described as tranformational jam. By this, I mean that the trio will discover something within the tune being played - a riff, a certain chord sequence, whatever - and hold it, build on it, amplify it, more and more until it climaxes, and then fade back into the original tune. These types of experiences in which the Trio goes "inside out" (which also the name of their latest album of impovisational exploration) is a wonder, a synthesis of cerebral and virtually telephathic musical intuition and communication between the three musicians, as if suddenly they unite in their newfound discovery and take a voyage down a never explored avenue, only to emerge in triumphant glory. Oh, and lets not to mention Jarrett howls the roof down, too :)

Alas, I will save you from any more adjectives and simply instruct you to go but this album, and enjoy.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, haunting, and evocative., February 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Still Live (Audio CD)

I write in order to counter the article written by a Mr Gill. I am a big Jarrett fan and have many of his albums; this is by far my favourite. Mr Gill is correct in the sense that yes, the general interpretation of the standards is "looser" than usual. This looseness allows for greater creativity within the bounds of the structures. The piano playing on this album is especially lyrical, and as for his own solo introductions (such as the preface to "My Funny Valentine"), they are moving in the extreme. I barely notice his alleged "burblings", so magnificent is his improvisation. As always his statement of the melody carries that Jarretesque roundness and clarity of tone. This album is an essential for any jazz lover, who wants to hear standards as they should be played.