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Recorded live in Japan, the double CD Always Let Me Go is everything the world-class Keith Jarrett trio is capable of when it is improvising from pure inspiration. In the liner notes of 2001's Inside Out, Keith Jarrett told us that he and his long-running standards trio would be doing more unscripted free music in the future and here Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette begin with the leap of improvisation: short cells of tuneful melody pop up and fade; a soloist pulls the music in new directions; ideas and interplay reach epic proportions &'40;with two tunes passing the half-hour mark).
All in all, this is a fine representation of the band working at its highest creative level. Whereas many groups travel the same old paths after years of working together, this trio rightly chooses new ones, using its long-running trust and familiarity to set off in search of the new and revel in its vibrancy. --Tad Hendrickson
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'Always Let Me Go' is a new high-water mark in the life of the extraordinary trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. Jarrett had given notice when 'Inside Out' was released last year that there would be "more of this kind of thing in the near future." Accordingly, there are no standards on this new double album, recorded on two nights in Tokyo last year, but it's an endlessly fascinating document that takes the full measure of the group's exceptional creativity.
Keith Jarrett describes the work as "free music that was not written rehearsed or planned in advance of the performances." But Jarrett's free music embraces an enormous range of possibilities. There is an abundance of melody in these spontaneous constructions, and passing allusions to the entire history of jazz, though the music also reaches beyond it. There are cascades of sound, tremulous lyrical passages, deep grooves, wide-ranging dynamics, silences, and quiet dissonances.
The range of possible references in this music runs from Thelonious Monk to Anton Webern. The music couldn't have been played by anyone but Jarrett's trio, yet they have never sounded quite like this. Keith himself has described the music as "a volcanic eruption" and feels it is their best and most concentrated work to date. The solo improvisation "The River" is as lovely as anything on 'The Köln Concert'.
Japanese audiences have always been particularly receptive to Jarrett's music and inspired him to exceptional performances - the epochal 'Sun Bear Concerts', 'Personal Mountains', 'Tokyo 96' - and so it is here. 'Inside Out', the recording of Jarrett's last London concert which ended up on numerous critics best-of-the-year lists in 2001, set the tone for the trio's immersion in free playing - but 'Always Let Me Go' is a big step beyond it, a real creative advance.
Recorded 2001
Personnel:
Keith Jarrett - (piano), Gary Peacock - (double-bass), Jack DeJohnette - (drums)
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