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| My Foolish Heart | 
 enlarge | Artists: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack Dejohnette
Label: Ecm Records
Category: Music
List Price: $29.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 11731
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000988702
UPC: 602517373266
EAN: 0602517373266
ASIN: B000TLPW3A
Release Date: October 16, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Four - Keith Jarrett, Davis, Miles | | • | My Foolish Heart - Keith Jarrett, Washington, Ned | | • | Oleo - Keith Jarrett, Rollins, Sonny | | • | What's New - Keith Jarrett, Burke, Johnny | | • | The Song Is You - Keith Jarrett, Hammerstein, Oscar | | • | Ain't Misbehavin' - Keith Jarrett, Razaf, Andy |
Disc 2
| • | Honeysuckle Rose - Keith Jarrett, Razaf, Andy | | • | You Took Advantage of Me - Keith Jarrett, Hart, Lorenz | | • | Straight, No Chaser - Keith Jarrett, Monk, Thelonious | | • | Five Brothers - Keith Jarrett, Mulligan, Gary | | • | Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry - Keith Jarrett, Styne, Julie | | • | Green Dolphin Street - Keith Jarrett, Kaper, Bronislav | | • | Only the Lonely - Keith Jarrett, Cahn, Sammy |
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Album Description
The 25th Anniversary Jazz's greatest piano trio. This is the best way to describe the 25-year partnership between Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. They are an institution of jazz and My Foolish Heart is their 18th recording, all on ECM. The double album was recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2001 and is an exhilarating and playful performance which romps through the history of jazz as the trio plays pieces by Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Gerry Mulligan and more, as well as a scattering of show tunes and standards from the Great American Songbook. This album is - in terms of the musical range addressed - one of the most comprehensive in the discography of Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette. This fall, ECM is also releasing a speciallypriced 3-CD box set of the first recording session that the Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette ever made together. Setting Standards is a combined reissue of Standards Vol. I, Standards Vol. II and Changes, the three albums recorded in one session at New York's Power Station in 1983. The albums have been remastered in 24bit/192kHz and the box set will include new liner notes and archival photos.
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 worth the wait October 17, 2007
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Complete disclosure - I am a huge Jarrett fan, and nearly own his entire catalog. With that being said, this is a GREAT trio concert. WOW! The three "ragtime" numbers - "Ain't Misbehavin,'" "Honeysuckle Rose," and "You Took Advantage of Me" are revelations. They sound completely rehearsed, but totally improvised, immediate and... PERFECT!
If you can get through the piano break in the first tune ("Four" by Miles) and not spontaneously break into a broad smile while your skin gets goosebumps, and your spirit actually levitates above the clouds, then you are a stronger man (or woman) than me! (The break is in the sample.) Don't judge the audio quality from the sample though - the audio quality on the disc is superb.
Greatest living piano trio - period.
Highest recommendation!
A masterclass October 25, 2007
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Keith Jarrett has a mile-deep back catalog that conjures the finest in jazz exploration, including a stockpile of Peacock and DeJohnette "standards trio" albums recorded live. So when a perfectionist like Jarrett calls this, his latest live trio record, the "most buoyant, swinging, melodic and dynamic," it had better be good.
Yes, this is great stuff. If the goal of the "standards trio" is to be an omnibus of jazz history within the compact format of acoustic piano, bass and drums, this is THE masterclass. Particularly evocative of the group's call to arms is the extended group of songs such as "Fats" Waller's 'Ain't Misbehaving" played in a ragtime idiom. It's great to hear this monster-machine of jazz improvisation batten down the hatches and kick into some disciplined swing. Remarkably, the effect isn't one of campy nostalgia. They keep it interesting.
As for the rest of the set, the interplay between the three veterans is deep and verdant. In the liner notes, Jarrett says all three members know they are playing with masters. That's quite a pat on the back. But in this case it's deserved.
This is a Keith Jarrett purchase that's almost as essential as his great solo-piano talisman "the Koln concert." A+
 He set TOO HIGH of a "Standard" January 19, 2008
19 out of 28 found this review helpful
What in the world happened to Keith Jarrett? I am shocked that he released this! His work back in the 70's (My Song, Belonging, Personal Mountains) represents the very highest level of jazz piano for me. Go back and listen to those albums before continuing this review.....................
Did you do it? Do you agree that the level of expression on those dates is as fine and intense and firey as anything you've ever heard in ANY genre of music ANYWHERE? Now listen to "Ain't Misbehavin'" on this disk, or either of the next two tracks. Feel like you're at a wedding?
I know that some of the other reviewers just adore this man who can do no wrong, but I think if you are honest, you will have to agree that this is just NOT any great artistic achievment. There is certainly great musical skill at work, but the "Standard" he set is SOOOOO high that he is failing miserably!
What made him think that he should play standards for 2.5 decades? It was interesting for the first few albums. 25 years later? This sounds like a gig. I play gigs and go to gigs. This sounds average. I expect more than average from one of the greatest musicians in the world. He needs to seriously rethink some things. The younger generation of guys, like Mehldau, Rosenwinkel, et al, are completely leaving him in the dust in terms of releasing creative music in the spirit of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, etc.
Even the other tracks where he doesn't play 2-beat stride piano are pretty lame. He rushes the solo breaks like crazy. The level of invention is WAY down. I think Still Live is a great standard album by Keith. Compare "The Song is You" on both that album and this one. I mean, you just HAVE to agree that there is NO COMPARISON. If you don't agree, have your head examined.
My Mom would even agree with that.
I'm sure someone is going to get all upset and rip me to shreds now, and click on the button that says this wasn't a helpful review. Go ahead. Just make sure you are honest in how you are looking at the history of jazz. This is supposed to be about the highest level of creativity, and the individual voice, and moving forward, and saying something new.
Another Fine Live Recording of a Great Trio October 18, 2007
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Although Jarrett's liner notes indicate that this performance took place under somewhat difficult circumstances (technical problems, excessive heat, and an audience that didn't seem fully engaged until well into the concert), one wouldn't have guessed it from the recording; the music sounds great from the opening number, and from the second track on all three musicians are very near the top of their game. The result is an album that ranks with the best this excellent group has released, and the extensive and varied selection of tunes provides a nice overview of many of the trio's strengths. (The notable exception is that this album doesn't include a fully improvised piece, like the title tracks on "The Cure" and "Up for It.") Those who are already admirers of the "standards trio" will definitely find this a worthwhile purchase, and for fans of mainstream jazz who are not yet familiar with the group (assuming there are any!), this would be an ideal place to start.
 A bit curate's eggish November 11, 2007
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
There is some fine material on this double-CD live recording by the Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette Standards trio from the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2001. The title track is the best: a lovely rendering, and What's New is superbly done; it's always nice to hear Five Brothers, too, though this version is less impressive than the trio's performance of the tune on The Out of Towners CD.
But there's too much that isn't so good: a very routine performance of Four and a strangely unattractive rendering of Straight, No Chaser, for example. The version here of Oleo is a bit on the dull side, too.
But the really big disappointment here is the sequence Ain't Misbehavin' / Honeysuckle Rose / You Took Advantage Of Me. Jarrett's playing on these three tunes is terrific, and it's lovely to hear him playing in the style of Fats Waller. However, these three are utterly ruined for me by some crass drumming by Jack DeJohnette. He's normally so subtle - a really musical drummer, if you can imagine the contradiction (joke!) and I have tremendous admiration for the way he normally works within the trio - but here he uses his bass drum in a clunkingly awful way, banging down on each beat and destroying the rhythmic subtleties in Jarrett and Peacock's playing. It makes these three tracks completely unlistenable to for me. If only there were some way of filtering out the banging so that we were left with Jarrett and Peacock's contributions alone!
So, overall rather a disappointment, I think - and I'm a huge fan of this trio and of Jarrett in particular. I'd really have rated it at two and a half stars but for Amazon's rather inflexible system.
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