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Keith Jarrett: Up for It

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Label: ECM Records
Released: 2003.05.20
Time:
 73:09
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Manferd Eicher
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.keithjarrett.org
Appears with: Jan Garbarek
Purchase date: 2009.12.07
Price in €: 3,00





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[1] If I Were a Bell (Loesser) - 11:45
[2] Butch & Butch (Nelson) - 7:25
[3] My Funny Valentine (Hart/Rodgers) - 11:11
[4] Scrapple from the Apple (Parker) - 9:41
[5] Someday My Prince Will Come (Churchill/Morey) - 9:18
[6] Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West (Lewis) - 6:48
[7] Autumn Leaves/Up for It (Kosma, Mercer, Prevert) - 16:58

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Keith Jarrett - Grand Piano, Liner Notes
Jack DeJohnette - Drums
Gary Peacock - Upright Bass

Manfred Eicher - Executive Producer
Martin Pearson - Engineer
Sascha Kleis - Design
Vanina Lucchesi - Photography
Yannick Seuret - Photography

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2003 CD ECM Records 000040602
2003 CD Universal Distribution 1033
2007 CD Universal Distribution 9066

Recorded live at Festival De Jazz d' Antibes, Juan Les Pins, France on July 16, 2002. Includes liner notes by Keith Jarrett.

"Butch & Butch" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo.

According to Keith Jarrett's ultimately uplifting liner notes, this live recording is one that very nearly did not happen. Apparently, it does not typically rain much or often in July on France's Cote d'Azur. However, in 2002, the sun did not shine for several days running there and the (outdoor) Festival de Jazz d'Antibes, not being accustomed to the uncooperative heavens, did not have a backup performance venue. On top of all of this, the members of this nearly legendary trio were all more or less recuperating from various illnesses, and feeling all the glummer for the rain. After an epiphany over an espresso backstage (read: the rainy, windswept beach), Jarrett convinced his colleagues that more or less, the show must go on. Besides he lobbied, "We need the therapy. We need the music."

Playing beneath plastic drop cloths on stage with little drips coming in here and there, the trio proceeded to play an inspired set of music, making it clear that the listeners, too, "need [this] music." Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette have been playing together for 20 years now and the fortuitous, compounded result is a trio that delivers on an exceptionally high level. To wit, Jarrett's solo on Oliver Nelson's "Butch & Butch" was nominated for a Grammy. Fans can be grateful that Jarrett's trio, in spite of the weather and their health, were and usually are, UP FOR IT, which is, incidentally, the title of the album's hoe-down closer.




For a trio that has been together this long (over 20 years), Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette still play with the enthusiasm of a group of people discovering each other for the first time. That's no cliché. One listen to "If I Were a Bell," the opening track on this live set, reveals how footloose, free, and excited these three can be when they encounter one another on the stand. Certainly, the near symbiotic relationship they have built over time makes the freewheeling feeling come easy. But that's a bit misleading in a sense, because if the listener pays the slightest bit of attention to how the rhythm section works with Jarrett, it becomes obvious just how much listening is going on in this conversation. Jarrett's timbral and dynamic palettes can change on a dime, and Peacock and DeJohnette never miss. The other wonderfully breezy thing about this set is that all of the tunes are from the jazz canon except for the title track, which closes the album and is a Jarrett original. From Frank Loesser's "If I Were a Bell," the band literally charges into Oliver Nelson's "Butch & Butch" at a furious tempo. DeJohnette pushes Jarrett on the tempo, and Peacock walks through the middle, balancing out not only time but harmonic equations in Jarrett's extrapolations on the melody. Nonetheless, despite the sprints -- "Scrapple From the Apple" by Charlie Parker is another down the line - they never cease to literally amaze on the ballads. Here, "My Funny Valentine," "Autumn Leaves," and the just under mid-tempo "Someday My Prince Will Come" are given such impeccable lyrical treatment it's almost breathless. One of the most exciting tracks here, especially since it begins the last third of the program, is the inclusion of John Lewis' "Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West." The gorgeous stride Jarrett plays, which is all his, stands in amazing contrast to the original light-fingered version played by the composer. Jarrett invokes Fats Waller and early Ramsey Lewis in the blues feel while keeping his own sense of tempered attack through the shimmering shades of blue and green in the minor keys. This is one tough track in feel and emotion. The rhythm section doesn't just walk it either; they slip under and around Jarrett to fill out the edges, making this a beautiful dialogue piece. Up for It is a dynamite set, as refreshing, spirited, and innovative as any Jarrett has ever released, but full of good vibes too.

Thom Jurek - All Music Guide



Those who believe that telepathy does not exist should check out this record. This trio--consisting of pianist Keith Jarrett, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and bassist Gary Peacock--has been perfecting the science of syncopated thought for two decades. Recorded in the South of France, it has all of the elements of the group's celebrated studio recordings. Jarrett's elegiac and encyclopedic pianisms, Peacock's intelligent basslines, and DeJohnette's intricate and inspired drumwork turn time-worn standard's such as "If I Were a Bell" and "Someday My Prince Will Come" into intense and intimate sound portraits. Bill Evans' famous trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian may have set the mold, but Jarrett, Peacock, and DeJohnette have broke it in their own sweet, swinging, and soulful way.

Eugene Holley, Jr. - Amazon.com



Da sprudelt und wuselt der Magier am Flügel, mit perlendem Anschlag, wacher Miene und hellem, gut gelauntem Klang. Das legendäre Trio von Pianist Keith Jarrett mit Gary Peacock am Bass und Jack DeJohnette am Schlagzeug hat Grund zum Feiern: 2003 ist das Jahr ihres 20. Jubiläums. Zwar wurde das dazugehörige Fest-Album Up For It schon beim vorherigen Antibes Jazz Festival aufgezeichnet, aber das macht ja nichts: Hauptsache es erscheint jetzt, pünktlich, und es folgt einer passenden Idee: nachdem die letzten beiden Trioalben Inside Out und Always Let Me Go fantastische, vollständig freie Improvisation verströmten, schließt Jarrett nun einen symbolischen Kreis um die sagenhafte Arbeit mit seinen Lieblingskollegen. Up For It swingt brav und konsequent, ein klassisches Jarrett-Klaviertrio, mit Klassikern zur Vorlage, "My Funny Valentine", "Someday My Prince Will Come", "Autumn Leaves", Jazz-Standards, die Jarrett oft gespielt hat und die eindeutigen Hit-Charakter haben. Neu derweil ist eine Charlie-Parker-Nummer ("Scrapple From The Apple") sowie eine Komposition des Modern Jazz Quartets; das Titelstück "Up For It" schrieb Jarrett selbst. Keith Jarrett, der in diesem Jahr mit dem großen Polar Music Preis der Royal Swedish Music Academy ausgezeichnet wird, gehört unstrittig zum Eindrucksvollsten, was der Jazz zu bieten hat. So war es gestern, so wird es morgen sein.

Katharina Lohmann - Amazon.de


"Jarrett exudes a joyous attitude....A complete triumph in the face of all manner of adversity." - Uncut (2/04, p.71) - 4 stars out of 5

"...The band sounds great throughout, as Jarrett forges on relentlessly, Peacock anchors, and DeJohnette dances around the beat..." - CMJ (5/19/03, p.31)

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