Standards (Jarrett album)
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Standards, Vol. 1
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| Studio album by Keith Jarrett Trio | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 11/12 January 1983 Power Station, New York City, U.S. |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 45:33 (Vol. 1) 45:08 (Vol. 2) 90:41 (Total) |
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| Label | ECM | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Standards, Vol. 2
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| Vol. 1: Allmusic |   |
| Vol. 1: Rolling Stone | |
| Vol. 2: Allmusic | |
Standards is a two-volume set of jazz albums released by the Keith Jarrett trio in 1983. Originally released by ECM, they have been multiply re-issued, including by Universal/Polygram. The two volumes present performances of pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock on double bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. Vol. 1 reached No.14 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts. In 2008 the two albums, along with 1983's Changes, were collected into a boxed set, Setting Standards: New York Sessions.
The trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette originally worked together on a 1977 album headline by Peacock, Tales of Another, coming back together in 1983 when producer Manfred Eicher proposed a trio album to Jarrett. Jarrett approached Peacock and DeJohnette with the idea of performing standards, which was greatly contrary to the contemporary jazz scene of the early 1980s. In a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Jarrett recalled his reasons for wanting to record standards. "This material was so damn good," he said, "and why was everyone ignoring it and playing clever stuff that sounds all the same?" He told Salon in 2000 that "[a] valuable player doesn't have to play anything new to have value, because it's not about the material, it's about the playing."
The three joined in a studio in Manhattan, New York City for a 2 1⁄2 day session during which they recorded enough material for three albums, the two Standards volumes and Changes. For that session, as in subsequent, the trio did not rehearse or pre-plan their playlist.
DeJohnette, also speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle, recalled that the trio had agreed to "do this until we don't feel like doing this anymore". In 2008, the trio celebrated its 25th anniversary, becoming during that time "the preeminent jazz group interpreting standards".
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