The great Jarrett!

1983 Jarrett returned to New York Power station with his two accomplices of "Tales of Another," the discreet but highly effective Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, legendary jazz drums with several hundred albums in counters and with whom Jarrett had already crossed swords years ago with Miles Davis. The goal: To propose a new reading of the standard repertoire, anthology of American popular music. The task is difficult, both versions of jazz greats, not least (Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, ....) abound, but Jarrett will prove to us that before becoming one of the best pianist of his generation, he is above all a prodigious musician.

The two albums devoted to standards are simply superb as beyond the quality of interpretation, of course sublime, and the choice of repertoire of great relevance (classics "All the things you are", "I fall in Easily love too, "" It Never Entered My Mind "," If i lose you shoulds "," Never let me go ", the beautiful" Moon and sand "on the Vol. 2, but also the beautiful" God bless the child "on the Vol. 1 (With DeJohnette playing bit, a treat!)), it follows from this wonderful music and the indispensable too rare spontaneity of" first time "(that end up on" Standards Live " "Standards In Norway", "Still Live", "Tribute" and "The Cure" and a few others, but who for desperately missing the pianist productions as it operates on-operates, separated and re-filtered off directory standard until weariness, if not nausea ...).

Sumptuous albums so embellished in this CD box (original compositions) recorded during the same session and released in 1984 under the name of "Changes". The pianist is flamboyant and hovering ("Flying" Part 1 and 2) and amazes us with the wonderful "Prism", splendid composition which we later discovered (in 1989) the version recorded in Japan by its European quartet on "Personal Mountains "

In short, a key milestone in Jarrett's career and one of the six or seven (no more !!!) needed pianist for whom standard audiophiles will appreciate, in addition to music, the sound quality at the highest level as usual with ECM (Five stars to Manfred too !!!)