Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette - My Foolish Heart
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Free Music Review: A bit curate's eggish
Hit: 3 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: They all sound the same
Hit: 3 Stars
While the paying is really very well executed and the production is first class, this tends to be just another Keith Jarret CD in a long series produced by ECM. A friend of mine who was at the concert fell asleep, which says a lot.Free Music Review: Disseminated Rythms
Hit: 2 Stars
The problem here is not that Jarrett or his trio are lacking any of the talent or fire that have become synonomous with the Standards Trio. With recordings such as Inside Out, the trio focused on free/avant garde pieces whereas the 3 Standards CDs were just that but with the trio's cutting edge interpretations of familiar and not-so-familiar pieces. My Foolish Heart is inconsistent in style and performance quality with DeJohnette uncharacteristically disrupting a number of pieces as though he were completely out of sync with Peacock and Jarrett. It is a major distraction that could have been remedied by making this a one-disc collection. As for the Jarrett take on Fats Waller, it may be the kind of thing that makes Ken Burns weepy but as a nostalgic tribute it contributes little to the repetoire of these musicians. There's a good reason that stride piano is no longer in style.
The most recent issue of Jazziz devotes an entire article to what appears to be Jarrett's increasing difficulty in dealing directly with his audience. the focus is on a preemtive attack on a Milan audience before the trio had even hit the stage. Jarrett's four-letter tirade/warning about flash photography culminated in the crowd ending the session with a barrage of flash pictures. Jarrett seems to be deliberatly alienating himself from the listner both in-person and on disc. his otherwise brilliant Carnegie Hall solo recording was greatly distorted by the choice to leave in excessive applause; on some songs exceeding 5 minutes. Genius that he is, Keith Jarrett is getting to be a tiresome phenom.