[TR24][OF] Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette - Somewhere - 2013 (Contemporary Jazz, Piano)

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette - Somewhere
Label: ECM Records ‎– ECM 2200
Format: 24-bit/96kHz Digital Download (highresaudio.com)
Country: Germany
Released: 2013
Genre: Jazz
Now in its 30th year, the Keith Jarrett Trio is widely considered, as the NY Times recently remarked, to have set “the gold standard” for jazz groups, and this sparkling concert recording from 2009 is issued to mark a milestone anniversary. The “Somewhere” in which the ‘Standards’ trio find themselves is Lucerne, Switzerland with a performance both exploratory and in-the-tradition. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung headlined its review of the show “Kontrollierte Ekstase” – controlled ecstasy – an apt metaphor for a set that begins in improvisational “Deep Space” modulates into Miles Davis’s “Solar”, soars through the standards “Stars Fell On Alabama” and “Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea” and climaxes with an extended romp through “West Side Story”, as Bernstein’s “Somewhere” and “Tonight” are bridged by the freely associative Jarrett original “Everywhere”.
AllMusic review by Thom Jurek
It is almost superfluous to write about Keith Jarrett's three-decades-and-running standards trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. Given their recorded output, it's easy to discern why they are regarded by many as the greatest living piano trio. They have continued to imbue the standards book with new dimensions of meaning, creating a near symbiotic dialogue in harmonic and rhythmic invention while remaining emotionally resonant. The performances on Somewhere were recorded in 2009, and are the first offerings by the group on record in four years, though they continue to play select dates annually. Since their three previous releases were all taken from a 2001 tour, this show reflects an eight-year growth period.
The opener is a Jarrett improvisation entitled "Deep Space," which is a building block solo intro to Miles Davis' "Solar," and which this group has recorded before -- several times in fact -- but never with the kind of lyric audacity and rumbling low-end counterpoint that Peacock puts on offer here. There's a popping read of Harold Arlen's and Ted Koehler's "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," with Jarrett playing chunky, staggered chords that manage to slip 4/4 as he dialogues with DeJohnette. The pair go at the time signature from both ends, refusing its authority until not to do so would result in its collapse. Peacock binds their conversation while finding his own way in and out of an implied yet never directly engaged sense of swing.
The two readings of Leonard Bernstein's title track and "Tonight" from West Side Story are the scene stealers, though. The former is a 19-plus-minute extravaganza that begins in halting, shimmering beauty and gets stripped to its essentials before being reconstructed and reshaped from building blocks into the driving, hypnotic improvisational ostinato coda Jarrett calls "Everywhere," with breathtaking chord voicings, forceful, middle-register bass flourishes, and awe-inspiring tom-tom and cymbal work by DeJohnette; the track's conclusion is drenched in royal gospel and regal blues. "Tonight" is performed at near sprint tempo and played with fingerpopping swing and joyous abandon. Jimmy Van Heusen's and Johnny Mercer's ballad "I Thought About You" closes the set on a quieter note, because there was simply nowhere else to go with so much electricity in the air. It's a soft, graceful, elegant way to finish another sublime chapter in this group's recorded legacy.
Credits
Piano, Producer – Keith Jarrett
Design – Sascha Kleis
Double Bass – Gary Peacock
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Engineer – Martin Pearson
Executive-Producer – Manfred Eicher
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Mario Giacomelli
Photography By [Liner Photos] – Daniela Yohannes
Recorded live July 11, 2009 at KKL Luzern Concert Hall
Tracklist
1 Deep Space/Solar
2 Stars Fell on Alabama
3 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
4 Somewhere/Everywhere
5 Tonight
6 I Thought About You

Dynamic Range Analysis
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Analyzed folder: Keith Jarrett – Somewhere (2013) [ECM 24-96 Studio Master]
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR10 -0.09 dB -13.77 dB 01 Deep Space – Solar.aiff
DR13 -0.56 dB -17.32 dB 02 Stars Fell On Alabama.aiff
DR10 -0.02 dB -12.98 dB 03 Between Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.aiff
DR9 -0.04 dB -13.29 dB 04 Somewhere – Everywhere.aiff
DR10 over -12.16 dB 05 Tonight.aiff
DR13 -0.72 dB -17.81 dB 06 I Thought About You.aiff
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Number of files: 6
Official DR value: DR11
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