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My Foolish Heart
by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette
from Ecm Records

Features:

• Live

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• IMPRESSIVE AND VIVID AS ALWAYS
  Every live recording from this trio is a celebration and a must have .Not so strong like STILL LIVE but also an excellent and skillful live performance which deserves respect and serious listening attention .FIVE STARS FOR SURE .

• Look ma--both hands!
  Much of the fuss about this album seems to concern Jarrett's revisiting of stride style on three numbers. Jarrett has never had a reputation as an underachiever, and no doubt he wishes to prove a point--not about stride piano (which as played by James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson is the most technically challenging idiom for jazz piano improvisation), but about his own eligibility to be considered on the same level as a select group of players. In the hands of the... more info

• KJ meets jazz roots, classic jazz trio music results
  This stuff must really come easy for Keith. The pianist known for his improvisations and thematic interludes of solo piano virtuosity in the jazz mode hooks up again with two of the most solid jazz musicians in the business today, and some wonderful takes on classic jazz tunes are digitized for the enjoyment of present and future jazz enthusiasts for years to come. Jarrett fans probably can't live without this recording, as it features some really wonderful playing and the usual complex and exciting solo... more info

• Pure Jarrett in every way
  The music is unsurprisingly glorious, as most of what this trio has played over the past 25 or so years.
  For Jarrett critics, probably the best quote in the history of Jarrett's self-indulgence, from the liner notes "I want to thank Gary and Jack for sharing the struggle for artistic survival in a world of fakery, thoughtlessness, mimicry, diffidence, apathy, unconsciousness, laziness, empty virtuosity, ignorance and self-deceit." Amen.

Tracks:

1. Four - Keith Jarrett, Davis, Miles
2. My Foolish Heart - Keith Jarrett, Washington, Ned
3. Oleo - Keith Jarrett, Rollins, Sonny
4. What's New - Keith Jarrett, Burke, Johnny
5. The Song Is You - Keith Jarrett, Hammerstein, Oscar
6. Ain't Misbehavin' - Keith Jarrett, Razaf, Andy
7. Honeysuckle Rose - Keith Jarrett, Razaf, Andy
8. You Took Advantage of Me - Keith Jarrett, Hart, Lorenz
9. Straight, No Chaser - Keith Jarrett, Monk, Thelonious
10. Five Brothers - Keith Jarrett, Mulligan, Gary
11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry - Keith Jarrett, Styne, Julie
12. Green Dolphin Street - Keith Jarrett, Kaper, Bronislav
13. Only the Lonely - Keith Jarrett, Cahn, Sammy

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