The Cure [LIVE] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Gary Peacock, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 21, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live, Original recording reissued
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B000025WLQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #117,650 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

All Keith Jarrett's trio releases with drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Gary Peacock contain passages of luminous brilliance, and there are many here. The leader's predilection for emotional intensity predictably takes precedence over his vehicles on this occasion--all of them standards, or near-standards. At a live recording at New York's Town Hall in 1990, Jarrett first backs into Monk's "Bemsha Swing," then does exquisite service to the tune. Similar personal inflections appear in a rollicking interpretation of Dizzy Gillespie's "Woody 'n You" and a fine "Golden Earrings" and "Body and Soul." Throughout, Jarrett does things that no other pianist would. With a striking mixture of sympathy and independence, DeJohnette trundles, lags, and lurches, yet projects great solidity and dependability. Gary Peacock provides the more essential timekeeping, while providing much lift. Before ending with "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," the trio performs the only Jarrett original, the title track, and there's a great sense of liberation and flight. --Peter Monaghan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for one track alone, January 26, 2001

By	CLB72 "clb" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

I have been listening to this album, the first Keith Jarrett I ever bought, for almost ten years. I love all the tracks, but one, Blame it on my Youth, never fails to choke me up. I recently came across to the sad, sweet lyrics to the song, and felt like I already knew them from the trio's sensitive rendering. Relax to it, slow-dance to it, ponder love over it. Sigh.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The warm homage!, May 29, 2005

By	Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

It is useless to carve in relief the astonishing abilities of this legendary musician. Jarrett in this time makes an impressive tour de force around the most remarkable ambassadors of the jazz. Old folks is a sensitive version original of Willard Robinson. Jarrett is fine creator of atmospheres and his playing texture flows with such accurateness and brightness that you can consider be listening ten pianist in one. When musicians of the artistic stature of Jack De Johnette and Gary Peacock decided to rejoin him after Standards Vol. I and Vol. II, there was that invisible and necessary rapport.
Woody in you is an admirable exercise of virtuousness and expressive elegance. Blame me it on my youth is the most introspective piece. Surrounded of a nocturnal breath and lyrical mood, sensitivity and outstanding refinement.
Body and soul is a towering classic and Jarrett makes an extraordinary rendition of this work.
In sum one of the most interesting works of this overwhelming musician.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Keith Already Had, November 12, 1999

By	Nobuyoshi Suto (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cure (Audio CD)

This is definitely an excellent album even as an album by the world's best piano trio, the Keith Jarrett Standards Trio. I would especially recommend this album to those people who love Keith's new album, "the Melody at Night, with You." Please listen the track, "Blame It On My Youth," and compare it to the new version of the same song in "the Melody..." You will find what ability Keith already had when the trio recorded this album and what he has achived in "the Melody..."

As a Japanese crtics wrote, "In his new album, Keith Jarrett has achived the artistic ability that Bill Evans had but not (at least overtly)Keith: the ability to express sorrowness of life/art."

My point is that I love this album as well as "the Melody..." becasue both album truly represents Keith, himself.