What jazz have you been listening to today?

Mat

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Chick Corea & Gary Burton - Crystal Silence (ECM Records)
 

intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Keith Jarrett and the Standards Trio. The album:

The Out-Of-Towners, solo piano by KJ on the song "It´s All In The Game".

It just doesn´t get any better.
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Hello Intet,

Today I really "listened" to Keith Jarrett: The dual CD set entitled "Whisper Not" and the triple CD set entitled "Setting Standards" - The New York Sessions. My Lady and I really got into the track entitled "Never Let Me Go" on Vol. 2 of the New York Sessions. It has got to be the most perfect Jazz Ballad for trio ever recorded. Man, it just boggles the mind.......Yowsa!!!!!!!

Humbly,

CD :):):):)
 

intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
My dear chap and colleague Corno Dolce from Oceania

"Yowsa!!!!!!!", :grin: yet another new word for me (like the "fratboy" expression) linked to Keith Jarrett and The New York Sessions, though I´m not realy familiar with which 3 CD set, you´re talking about??? Please elaborate my friend on this particular album.

"Whisper Not" ECM Records 2000, on the other hand a great album. Tell me my dear sir and mentor, does your Lady feel the same infatuation towards Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette like you and me??? Stupid question eh? :grin::grin:

Got it Corno Dolce, though I do believe you somehow got distracted during the listening by ?, since the "Setting Standards" - Live at The Carnegie Hall Concert" seems to be the solo piano 2 CD set from 2006:

http://www.da.imusic.dk/item/0602498562246/jarrett-keith-2006-the-carnagie-hall-concert-cd
 
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intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Hello Intet,

Today I really "listened" to Keith Jarrett: The dual CD set entitled "Whisper Not" and the triple CD set entitled "Setting Standards" - The New York Sessions. My Lady and I really got into the track entitled "Never Let Me Go" on Vol. 2 of the New York Sessions. It has got to be the most perfect Jazz Ballad for trio ever recorded. Man, it just boggles the mind.......Yowsa!!!!!!!

Humbly,

CD :):):):)

My dear friend - Don´t Ya ever do this to me again, scrolling every list of Jarrett albums I already have on stock.

Geez buddy, you realy had me worryed there for a minute, thinking has he completely lost it? Remember, I am older than you not going steady as the former famous Danish rock any more, and a chock like this one, might have me back in the hospital in a jippy on the department for cardio - anything.

"Setting Standards" is from 2008 released by ECM Records, USA (only).
 

intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Hi Intet,

So sorry to cause such a shock to your system. I should have included "ECM" and the catalog number for this "New York Sessions" take. Here it is as info for those interested:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tRM2px-xL._AA240_.jpg

ECM 2030-32

Cheers,

CD ;);););)

Corno Dolce

It´s okay :lol::lol::lol::lol:, you made other contributions far more impotant and admirable, and the very fact we both enjoy this all american Standards Trio jazz outfit Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette equaly are better than winning the lottery for me, perhaps even sex Round Midnight, I can manage for a couple of weeks :lol::lol::lol::lol:.

But to show you the gratitude - Head on pal, the greatest of days arrive at Christmas!!

Excepts from "The Silent American" by the english author of many an international staged novel, Mr. Graham Greene:

I have never met a man with better motives for all the troubles he caused.

Thanks for the link compadre.
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Hi Intet,

It sometimes seems so inscrutable why ECM releases a CD in the U.S. but not in Europe or only in Europe and not in the U.S.

Granted, it is a decision based on business principles i.e. ECM wants to get ROI(return on investment).

Of course, with the advent of music downloads maybe we ARE seeing the end of the CD as we know it. We download all we want and then into the Ipod it goes. Yep, no more need for stores to carry CD's - no costs for manufacturing facilities, machinery, labor, shipping, and handling of the physical product. Yep, just think - fewer jobs because of all this technological advancement. No wonder then we see an explosion of fast-food enterprises - they take up the surplus of unskilled labor.

So sorry for so going off-topic ---

Back on topic: "An American In Paris" by George Gershwin.

Cheers,

CD :):):):)
 

intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette from the double CD "Whisper Not", ECM Records 2000, recorded Live July 5, 1999 at the Palais des Congres, Paris.

CD 2 first song - What Is This Thing Called Love 12:33, by Cole Porter. KJ from the beginning typically struggling fearslessly with the piano until JD and GP fall in, and they all enter a speedy tempo.

I have never in my life listened to a trio, who so completely fullfill my own dreams of how jazz should be played. THANK YOU KEITH JARRETT.
 
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intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Corno Dolce are you serious?

You stated: "Of course, with the advent of music downloads maybe we ARE seeing the end of the CD as we know it. We download all we want and then into the Ipod it goes. Yep, no more need for stores to carry CD's - no costs for manufacturing facilities, machinery, labor, shipping, and handling of the physical product. Yep, just think - fewer jobs because of all this technological advancement. No wonder then we see an explosion of fast-food enterprises - they take up the surplus of unskilled labor.".

In your esteemation dear sir, what is around the corner in the US as to technical advancement post the Ipod? Haven´t been there yet though, I still prefer the old huge speakers in my livingroom, specially manufactored for acoustic jazz music at the price of an F-16 aircraft.
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
iPods (can and do) interface via your computer and wireless connections to your HiFi system ... no need to get rid of the big speakers at all!
 

intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
iPods (can and do) interface via your computer and wireless connections to your HiFi system ... no need to get rid of the big speakers at all!

Hi CT64

Thank you. Now my friend would you do me a favour, please translate your post for someone from the 101 class "and wireless connections to your HiFi system...".

Have you any idea of the age of my HiFi system(-s)? :lol::lol::lol::lol:
 

intet_at_tabe

Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Back on topic.

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian live "At The Deer Head In", ECM Records 1994.

Creating the Standards Trio in the beginng of the 1980´s, KJ had not performed with Paul Motian for 16 years. So at one occasion, while KJ back in Allen Town, Pennsylvania, where he did his first piano job at the jazz club The Deer Head Inn, Jack DeJohnnette was engaged elsewhere on the night.

So Paul Motian replaced brother Jack and sat behind the kit on this live recording, playing Standards Trio repertoire. Incredible difference of the total sound picture. The two highly educated world wide famous drummers, but with very different drum style. Yet a great album.
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
"Whisper Not" by Keith Jarrett.

In re to post-Ipod: Gee, I'm kinda out of my league in this area. However, I will guesstimate that we might soon see a whole CD on a flash-memory chip the size of an average human thumbnail. Flash-memory chips are more durable than the drive inside an Ipod.

Methinks that the technology for making a one Terabyte Ipod using flash-memory is already upon us and will be the same size as current Ipods. But initially it will be expensive - around $2000 a unit. Then the economies of scale will kick in and the price will settle around $1000 a unit - still a chunk of change for most. Again, this is just pure guesstimation on my part.
 
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