Keith Jarrett Inside Out CD

/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette.
Personnel: Keith Jarrett (piano); Gary Peacock (bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums).
Recorded live at Royal Festival Hall, London, England on July 26 & 28, 2000.
Includes liner notes by Keith Jarrett.
Personnel: Keith Jarrett (piano); Gary Peacock (double bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums).
Liner Note Author: Keith Jarrett.
Recording information: Royal Festival Hall, London, England (07/26/2000-07/28/2000).
Photographer: Roberto Masotti.
For many years, the trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette has been taking jazz standards and expanding them via improvisation into an entire language that reflects not only the history but also the eternal present of jazz. Many have wondered if Jarrett would ever return to the "free" style of playing he did in the 1960s on releases for Columbia, Atlantic, and Impulse! It would be both impossible and unreasonable to expect a musician like Jarrett -- and his sidemen for that matter -- to return to the fold of an innocence they lost long ago, when they were lesser musicians than they are now. Inside Out, recorded over two nights in July 2000 in London, bridges that gap: It is completely improvised save for one tune -- an almost unbearably beautiful reading of "When I Fall in Love" -- done as an encore. Here are Jarrett, Peacock, and DeJohnette as they haven't been heard from in years, starting from silence, digging deep into the history of jazz, blues and even R&B to invent spontaneously a musical language that is trio-specific, communicative on the deepest levels of nuance, sonances, and spirit. The opening track, "From the Body," begins as a careening trip through the blues, from Memphis to St. Louis back through Mississippi to New Orleans and coming to rest in Chicago. Given how close the dialogue is here, and the expansive harmonic invention at work in the middle registers of the piano and the bass, ...