Tokyo '96

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Tokyo '96
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 1998 [1]
RecordedMarch 30, 1996
Venue Bunkamura Orchard Hall
Tokyo, Japan
Genre Jazz
Length1:19:05
Label ECM
ECM 1666
Producer Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
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(1997)
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(1998)
The Melody at Night, with You
(1999)
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(1995)
Tokyo '96
(1998)
Whisper Not
(2000)
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Tokyo '96 is a live album by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett recorded at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo on March 30, 1996 and released on ECM in April 1998. [1] The trio—Jarrett's "Standards Trio"—features rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.

Contents

Background

Filmed footage of the concert was originally released as Trio Concert 1996.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Standards Trio in 2008, ECM acquired rights to the filmed performance and released a double-DVD set called Live in Japan 93/96, which featured Trio Concert 1996 and another Trio film, Live at Open Theater East.

March–April 1996 Tour in Japan

Tokyo '96 was recorded on March 30 during a tour in Japan where Jarrett's "Standard trio" performed ten times in 16 days. [4]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and states, "The standards trio lives up to its formidable track record of consistency and then some. Jarrett and perennial cohorts Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette are, if anything, even sharper, swinging harder and more attuned to each other than ever." [2]

The November 1998 All About Jazz review by Christopher Hoard noted:

The music here is so startlingly pure in its conception, it sadly harkens to the fact that with few exceptions, little remains today in jazz which attains the force and beauty of those original standards, those moods and statements we find Jarrett continually resurrecting in a new hues and phrasings. Sadly it seems, Jarrett may be last in a line of this century's greatest musical impresarios. If you open up to the music revealed on this recording, it indeed seems improbable that any of a younger generation of jazz musicians will even attempt to live up to the standard this group realizes for meeting up with music and an audience in a room. I sincerely hope I'm wrong here. [5]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote, "The story continues, unstaunchable, maddeningly indulgent and selflessly brilliant by turns. There are moments of pure genius here." [3]

Track listing

  1. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 11:38
  2. "Never Let Me Go" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 7:02
  3. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) – 8:07
  4. "Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 7:37
  5. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 10:20
  6. "Mona Lisa" (Evans, Livingston) – 3:16
  7. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 7:58
  8. "Last Night When We Were Young/Caribbean Sky" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg/Keith Jarrett) – 9:55
  9. "John's Abbey" (Bud Powell) – 5:50
  10. "My Funny Valentine/Song" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers/Jarrett) – 7:16

Personnel

Technical personnel

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References

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  2. 1 2 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 772. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Keith Jarrett 1996 live concerts accessed January 2021
  5. Christopher Hoard. All About Jazz Review accessed December 2020