This is about the recording of "Standards Live" from 1985, not to "Still Live" from the following year. Another reviewer has probably confused something here. The disc is excellent as a "beginner" CD for budding trio friends, she has but just that style of standards-interpretations, which should be followed by more than a dozen other recordings yet. It is so to speak the "standard of standards". Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette playing as always instinctive sureness and harmony with one another and another and so created real jewels of the art of interpretation. Especially the first and last piece should be highlighted. "Stella by Starlight" is introduced by a long solo piano part, which then slowly fed quasi associate bass and drums. That's the best publication of this piece, better than on "Yesterdays" and also better than on the "standard I / II" -Live double DVD. Very good is also "The Old Country", which comes tangy and fresh, and at the end gently fades. I can not say exactly why matches, but precisely for this piece, I think, the minimalist Kafka drawing that graces the cover. However, can be found, and that is the criticism, a little too often "the meter" on "Standards Live". The structures of the pieces are quite often be quite similar and it rarely happens something surprising. Intellectual challenges to the hearing are not necessarily provided - as is the case with Jarrett's solo concerts or at some later Trio recordings. We may regret this, but you do not, if you just want to hear a great jazz disc with beautiful standards-interpretations.
