At the Deer Head Inn

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At the Deer Head Inn
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 1994 (1994-04) [1]
Recorded16 September 1992 [2] [3]
Venue Deer Head Inn
Delaware Water Gap, PA
Genre Jazz
Length66:27
Label ECM
ECM 1531
Producer Bill Goodwin
Keith Jarrett chronology
Bridge of Light
(1994)
At the Deer Head Inn
(1994)
Standards in Norway
(1995)

At the Deer Head Inn is a live album by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett recorded at the Deer Head Inn jazz club on September 16, 1992 and released by ECM in April 1994. The trio features rhythm section Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. [1] The remaining songs from the concert are scheduled to be released in November 2024 as The Old Country: More from Deer Head Inn. [4]

Contents

Background

The album was recorded at a venue where Jarrett performed very early in his career, [5] and was the first to feature Motian since the 1976 session that yielded Byablue and Bop-Be , the final recordings of Jarrett's American Quartet, collected on the 1992 compilation Silence. [6] [7] [8]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "The inventive interpretations give listeners plenty of surprises and variety, making this a very enjoyable outing". [5]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote: "Motian brings a lighter and more flowing pulse to the music than DeJohnette... 'Bye Bye Blackbird'... glides along without wires or other obvious support for more than ten minutes, a beautiful airborne performance... As so often, Peacock is more forceful and less complex out of the studio... It seems unlikely that Jarrett will ever need to go back to bar-room gigs, but here he's demonstrated his ability to work a small audience with powerful, unpretentious jazz." [8]

Track listing

  1. "Solar" (Miles Davis) – 11:21
  2. "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) – 9:09
  3. "Chandra" (Jaki Byard) – 9:21
  4. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 12:55
  5. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 5:41
  6. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 10:13
  7. "It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 7:47

Personnel

Technical personnel

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References

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  2. Past concerts - KeithJarrett.org
  3. Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian – At The Deer Head Inn at Discogs
  4. https://ecmrecords.com/product/the-old-country-keith-jarrett-paul-motian-gary-peacock/
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