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At The Blue Note - The Complete Recordings | 
| Artist: Keith Jarrett
Label: ECM
Category: Music
List Price: £92.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 27732
Format: Box Set, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.3 x 2.8
MPN: 527638
UPC: 731452763822
EAN: 0731452763822
ASIN: B000024JEX
Release Date: October 23, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | In Your Own Sweet Way | | • | How Long Has This Been Going On | | • | While We're Young | | • | Partners | | • | No Lonely Nights | | • | Now's The Time | | • | Lament | | • | I'm Old Fashioned | | • | Everything Happens To Me | | • | If I Were A Bell | | • | In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning | | • | Oleo | | • | Alone Together | | • | Skylark | | • | Things 'ain't What They Used To Be | | • | Autumn Leaves | | • | Days Of Wine And Roses | | • | Bop Be | | • | You Don't Know What Love Is Muezzin | | • | When I Fall In Love | | • | How Deep Is The Ocean | | • | Close Your Eyes | | • | Imagination | | • | I'll Close My Eyes | | • | I Fall In Love To Easily | | • | On Green Dolphin Street | | • | My Romance | | • | Don't Ever Leave Me | | • | You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To | | • | La Valse Bleue | | • | Straight No Chaser | | • | Time After Time | | • | For Heaven's Sake | | • | Desert Sun | | • | How About You |
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Monumental October 3, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This astonishing boxed set from the standards trio justifies a long essay as a minimum to do it justice. I will restrict myself to talking about a few tracks only.
Disc 5 starts with a track 21 minutes long. After a slightly disguised Piano introduction Jarrett begins a long exploration of "On Green Dolphin Street". This swings like hell in places, is occasionally a little funky, and is never less than very inventive. Just after 8 minutes the first Piano solo ends! After a brief interlude of bass solo and drums/Piano exchanges the theme comes back and seamlessly becomes "Joy Ride" at around 12 minutes. This is one of Keith's own compositions and has a calypso feel to it. Well you can guess that he gets into this in a big way and the drive and interplay between the musicians justs gets better and better. This track alone made the boxed set worth getting.
The other highlights on disc 5 are a rapid version of "You'd be so nice to come home to" and great version of Monks "Straight No Chaser".
Of particular interest to me were two versions of "Things Ain't What They Used To Be". You will hear Jarrett use blues licks in his solos, but not often do hear him play an entire piece in a bluesy/gospel style. This is fantastic stuff, driven along by some great bass by Gary Peacock.
I can't do justice to the set of 6 discs here. If you're a Jarrett fan and you don't have this collection, you should have. Likewise anybody interested in Piano trio Jazz should consider this an essential purchase. Its a shame more artists don't put out sets like this - although my bank manager might disagree.
5 stars just ain't enough August 22, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you have any interest in Jarrett, or in the jazz piano trio generally, then you must buy this set. The level of interplay between Jarrett, Peacock and de Johnette is utterly astonishing; the range of repertoire is awesome, with some wonderful meditative originals (such as 'Muezzin') in among the glorious standards; the immediacy of the recording puts you there in the club, and you can almost feel the glass of cold lager in your hand. All the discs are well-filled, and there is not a track on there which does not exemplify this trio at its best. My only problem is knowing that Manfred Eicher must be hoarding mountains of other tapes of the trio which may only see the light of day when some of us are pushing up the daisies.For me, this set is up there with Beethoven's string quartets and Bach's Cantatas among the greatest achievements in the music tradition. Honestly, that is how good it is.
Very nicely recorded live album June 1, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Although the cover of the box set doesn't say so, this is not a Jarrett solo set, but the 'Standards' trio, consisting of Jarrett, DeJohnette and Gary Peacock, recorded in the intimacy of the Blue Note over just three days in 1995.I say 'intimacy' because, judging by the applause, I'd be surprised if there were more than 300 in the audience. And you get frequent reminders that they are there -- on CD#1, track #1, around 7:10, you can hear a wine bottle go tumbling! It's so hard to pin Jarrett down. He's produced excellent group work (e.g. 'Survivors' and 'Nude Ants'), solo albums (e.g. 'Vienna' and 'Dark Intervals'), solo classical (e.g. Handel) and the experimental (e.g. 'Spheres' and 'Arbour Zena'). Previously I've found the Standards trio to be the least compelling aspect of his output -- it's tempting, on first hearing, to put it in the 'dinner jazz' category which so many other trios have successfully played. Jarrett's own compositions are of such a high calibre that it seems almost wasteful to have the band play largely other composers' songs. Perhaps it helps to have seen the trio perform on video or DVD, then you realise how special the band is. In the Japanese concert I have, Jarrett seems to spend over half the concert playing the concert standing up (and dancing rather strangely!). Jarrett's scat-singing is also, uhm, unusual -- I doubt whether he was taught the technique at the Juilliard. Although not budget-priced, it's impossible to fault this collection, and it is easy to be overwhelmed by the range of songs that the band played over three days, in two 65-minute sets per day.
Timeless jazz October 9, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
These wonderful discs contain some of the most beautiful moments in trio jazz ever recorded. Keith Jarrett has hinted at this level of jazz on previous releases & hasnt really reached the same
dizzy heights achieved here. Thats not to say his other cd's arent good. Its just the music here is so good that anything thats followed cant compete.
But where to start. Anywhere really, as you can dip in here & there & still find excellant jazz.
My personel favourite is 'I Fall In Love Too Easily' which start so fragile but transcends into 'The Fire Within' which holds you in such an intense rapture you hope the song doesnt end. Being on disc 5 its very tempting to ingnore the final disc as you will want to hear this song again & again but you'll be missing out on more great jazz.
How did Keith Jarrett follow this. Well, in my view he hasnt.....yet. But I will continue to listen to his music in the hope he will again achieve the power & passion his playing is here.
NB This also makes a perfect companion to his Sun Bear concerts box set.
Buy & enjoy always
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