''Standards Live'' is an album recorded by

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's ''

Standards Trio Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a ...

'' live in concert in Paris, in July 1985. It was published by

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in 1986 and it became the first in a long series of live albums to be released by

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and

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as a unit.

July 1985 Tour

''Standards Live'' was recorded during the "Standards trio" July 1985 European tour which, according to ''www.keithjarrett.org'', offered 12 recitals in 26 days:''keithjarrett.org'
Keith Jarrett 1985 live concerts
accessed May 12, 2020 * 1 - Paris (France) * 2 - Paris (France) * 3 - Ravenna (Italy) * 4 - Ravenna (Italy) * 10 - Montreux (Switzerland) * 12 - Den Haag (Netherlands) * 15 - Lyon (France) during the

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festival * 17 - Salon-de-Provence (France) * 18 - San Sebastian - Donostia (Spain) during the San Sebastian Jazz Festival * 19 - San Sebastian - Donostia (Spain) * 23 - Antibes (France) * 26 - Montpellier (France)

Reception

Jazz commentator

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states that " e interplay between the players was constantly impressive." ''The Rough Guide to Jazz'' describes the concert as "exceptional", singling out the performance of "Too Young to Go Steady" as "one of the most perfect and exultant trio performances in the whole of jazz." In his biography of Jarrett, Ian Carr describes the album as "superlative: the incredible dynamism, the sheer creativity of the three men, the feeling of ecstasy that pervades the whole concert and the interplay and inter-dependence of the trio." Carr singles out " Stella by Starlight" as here "exquisite and gripping".Carr, ''Keith Jarrett'', 167

Track listing

#" Stella by Starlight" ( Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 11:15 #"The Wrong Blues" ( William Engvick,

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) – 8:03 #" Falling in Love with Love" (

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) – 8:44 #"Too Young to Go Steady" ( Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 10:10 #"

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" ( Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 9:31 #"The Old Country" ( Nat Adderley, Curtis Lewis) – 6:36 Total effective playing time: 49:02 (the album contains 5:19 applause approximately)

Personnel

* Keith Jarrett – piano *

–

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– double bass Production * Manfred Eicher - producer * Martin Wieland - recording engineer * Barbara Wojirsch - design * Franz Kafka –

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from "The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923"

July 1985 Tour

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