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Keith Jarrett: Whisper Not

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Label: ECM Records
Released: 2000
Time:
53:56 / 59:03
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Manferd Eicher
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.keithjarrett.org
Appears with: Jan Garbarek
Purchase date: 2001.01.05
Price in €: 26,99



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CD 1:
[1] Bouncing With Bud (Bud Powell) - 7:33
[2] Whisper Not (Benny Golson) - 8:06
[3] Groovin' High (Dizzy Gillespie) - 8:31
[4] Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn) - 9:47
[5] Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Harry Barris / Ted Koehler / Billy Moll) - 5:48
[6] 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk / Cootie Williams) - 6:45
[7] Sandu (Clifford Brown) - 7:26

CD 2:
[1] What Is This Thing Called Love? (Cole Porter) - 12:24
[2] Conception (George Shearing) - 8:08
[3] Prelude to a Kiss (Duke Ellington / Irving Mills) - 8:16
[4] Hallucinations (Bud Powell) - 6:36
[5] All My Tomorrow (Sammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:23
[6] Poinciana (Buddy Bernier / Nat Simon) - 9:11
[7] When I Fall in Love (Edward Heyman / Victor Young) - 8:06

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Keith Jarrett - Piano
Gary Peacock - Double Bass
Jack DeJohnette - Drums

Martin Pearson - Engineer
Sascha Kleis - Design
Judith Joy Ross - Photography

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Recorded live July 5, 1999 at Palais des Congrès, Paris.



This is the first Standards Trio recording since Keith Jarrett's return to public performance, and some changes have been wrung in the group's improvisational approach. The making of Jarrett's acclaimed solo album "The Melody At Night, With You" has influenced the way his Trio now approaches ballads. And the uptempo numbers have a new buoyancy.

ECMRecords.com



For Keith Jarrett, this extremely satisfying concert with the Standards Trio on two CDs is a personal landmark, the first for-the-record sign that he had recovered from the chronic fatigue syndrome that laid him low for three years in the late 1990s. Indeed, by the time this Paris gig took place, he had come all the way back - his technical facilities intact (a handful of smeared notes aside), his inventiveness bubbling over. Old cohorts Gary Peacock (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums) are back, too, regenerating their propulsive, swinging, collective E.S.P. at will. Not too much has changed from the pre-illness days, though the focus is very much on classic bebop now - with Bud Powell getting a good deal of attention with an outstanding "Bouncing With Bud" and a terrific "Hallucinations" that has an atypically funny false ending. Jarrett's bebop runs on "Groovin' High" are astonishing, "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" is appealingly jaunty and carefree, and ballads like "'Round Midnight" and "Prelude to a Kiss" revert to the melodic simplicity that was cultivated during Jarrett's down time. Even though the Standards Trio has been one of the most prolifically recorded groups of its era, only the final encore, "When I Fall in Love," had been recorded before by this group. So even those who think they have enough material by this group will be rightly tempted to invest in this document of Jarrett's resurrection.

Richard Ginell - All-Music Guide



Listening to the high-energy, florid runs, quirky twists, and trademark whines that tattoo "Bouncin' with Bud," the opening track of Whisper Not, it's hard to believe that Keith Jarrett was still in the throes of chronic fatigue syndrome when his trio recorded this date in Paris in July 1999. This isn't the Keith Jarrett of moody ruminations we heard on his solo CD The Melody at Night, with You, released in the fall of 1999. Whisper Not is closer to the Jarrett who launched the Standards Trio with drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Gary Peacock in 1983. The trio is still mining the songs of their youth, resurrecting "Poinciana," a signature song of Ahmad Jamal, an early Jarrett influence, and paying tribute to the bop masters with a rollicking take on Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' High" and a sophisticated excursion into Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight." The interplay between these three musicians has never been higher, operating at a level beyond intuition, playing inside each other's heads.

John Diliberto - Amazon.com



Dieses Live-Album dokumentiert die Rückkehr des Keith Jarrett in den Konzertsaal. Seine Solo-CD The Melody At Night, With You war während längerer Krankheit im Heimstudio aufgenommen worden, und Jarrett, nie müde sein Schaffen zu kommentieren, spricht seitdem von einer größeren Energiekonzentration und von einer Neuentdeckung, einem gänzlich neuen Zugang zur Balladentradition. Kurz vor Veröffentlichung von Whisper Not, einem Konzertmitschnitt aus dem Jahre 1999, entgegnete Jarrett in einem Leserbrief an die New York Times einem Zitat des Trompeters Wynton Marsalis, demnach das Solo ein Missverständnis der Jazzgeschichte sei, nur eine langweilige und vorhersahbare Präsentation von Musik. Es komme wohl darauf an, um wessen Solo es sich denn handele, witzelte Jarrett, der seit Jahren verärgert ist über das Gewicht und die Bedeutung, die Marsalis in Bezug auf den zeitgenössischen Jazz in Amerika zugeschrieben wird. Jarrett sieht sich in der Tradition und Nachfolge von Miles Davis, als den Bewahrer und Erneuerer des großen Jazzerbes. Um diese Position streitet er jedenfalls seit Jahren schon mit Leserbriefen und Plattenveröffentlichungen. Whisper Not hat nur wenig von der unbändigen Energie, die man auf At The Blue Note spüren kann, und sie wirkt in der beanspruchten Konzentration auf die Melodie schon etwas behäbig, ja unfrisch. Mag sein, dass Jarretts unfassbar gutes Standard-Trio mit Gary Peacock, Bass, und Schlagzeuger Jack DeJohnette für den geneigten Insider noch das eine oder andere Hintertürchen offen hält, doch im Groben scheint dieses Projekt an seine Grenzen gestoßen zu sein.

Christian Broecking - Amazon.de



As you may have guessed from the title (taken from the Benny Golson tune the trio covers here), this is not your typical "Keith Jarrett spins off into beautiful post-jazz mysticism" album. In fact, it's exactly the opposite. Dishing up a substantial fare of standards, lost classics, and dependable warhorses, Jarrett relieves himself of the yoke of compositional responsibility and allows this trio to... well, frankly, have a blast. Recorded at a 1999 Paris concert, this highly energized set finds the three partners working at the peak of their communicative and improvisatory abilities. Although they wouldn't have needed a "standards" record to do it (as they have certainly developed quite a highly focused sense of togetherness over the years), the fact that they know each other inside out, and know the material inside out, makes this double-disc set an absolute delight. From the breathless whoops and grunts that frequently pop up throughout the set, it's clear that all the players are inspired, and are having a great time playing. Yet this is no barnstorming blowing session. With the focus on Jarrett's piano work, the song selection falls notably on the side of such keyboard classics as "Bouncing with Bud," "'Round Midnight," or "Prelude to a Kiss" - or saccharine standards, including "All My Tomorrows" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" - that allow the leader to prove his melodic mettle. And, of course, he does, but in that very nearly clinical sense that seems to have infected most of Jarrett's recent work. It's clear - mainly from the very concept of the album - that the pianist wants to cut loose, but his skill sometimes gets in the way. And though everything here is a joy to hear, it's on such cuts as the crowd-pleasing "Groovin' High" or the seldom-approached "Sandu" (when DeJohnette and Peacock are allowed to help chart the course of the song) that things get interesting. On these tracks, the trio lets what's left of their hair down, and they truly get down to business, trading improvised jabs at one another. Even an unsuspecting number such as "Conception" gets a thorough going-through. And, though an album of standards seems like the least-risky thing three jazz legends like these guys could do, it's a real revelation to hear 'em paging through the songbook.

Jason Ferguson - October 30, 2000
CDNOW Contributing Writer



Pianist Keith Jarrett is one of the most interesting and compelling players working today. Jarrett's Standards Trio - which also features the amazing Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Gary Peacock (bass) - boasts a mesmerizing chemistry developed over the almost two decades that the three have been working together. Known for freewheeling live concerts, the pianist has recorded a number of times in this format both as a leader and a solo artist. Whisper Not, recorded live in Paris in 1999, marks Jarrett's return to performing after a three-year battle with chronic fatigue syndrome. It follows in the same vein as the trio's Tokyo '96, but has the same elegant attention to melody found on Jarrett's recent solo effort, Melody At Night, With You. As is always the case with the Standards Trio, the group rips through a broad selection of bebop history, taking on Powell, Evans, Gershwin, Ellington and others with its singular touch. Always looking to push the music but never losing the nuance of the songs, each performance is like learning something surprising about an old friend.

Tad Hendrickson - Oct 23, 2000
CMJ New Music Report Issue: 688
 

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