Taken on July 11, 2009 in Lucerne "Somewhere", the first trio release since "Yesterdays" from 2009. But when you consider the recorded data, so the Lucerne concert was the first CD released since "Up For It" for the pieces of a presentation in July 2002 at "Jazz à Juan" in Antibes (where the trio plays almost every year) were recorded. Compared to the output of the concert in 2001, of which four CDs have even arisen, the time gap is here already suspiciously large. Was there between 2002 and 2009 among the 85 concerts that gave the trio in this period, no better? Or they wanted to refute at ECM only criticism, it would be too many CDs of standards trio of Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock, who each other very similar, brought out? Anyway, "Somewhere" is a good, sometimes very good, but partly also slightly marbled album of undisputed fantastic pb DR trio to Keith Jarrett. Thematically the Lucerne concert is a mixture of Miles Davis and Leonard-Bernstein tributes. DeJohnette agree on drums and Peacock on bass - with a "Deep Space" said opener that reminds us of the sometimes quite free tracks on the album "Always Let Me Go", the memory of Miles Davis is honored because the piece is then successively a - more and more in "Solar" about those classics master trumpeter, the Keith Jarrett interpreted often and very willingly. But ultimately lost by the very free interpretation of the typical Spritzige on "Solar". "Stars Fell On Alabama" is a beautiful ballad, "Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea" a slightly more upbeat number - for the first time to hear both standards on the CD Jarrett band: decent, but not outstanding trio fare. Highlight of the album are the two compositions by Leonard Bernstein from the "West Side Story", the almost 20-minute "Somewhere", which opens into a Jarrett-typical Vamp extension called "Everywhere" and "Tonight". The many interpretations of Bernstein classics out now finally successful appraisals through one of the most important contemporary keepers of the "Great American Songbook", Keith Jarrett. A bow back to Miles Davis is beaten by the final number "I Thought About You". This piece also appeared on the album "Bye Bye Blackbird", the 1991's tribute album of the trio at the time of his deceased Miles. Overall, a fine album, but the - for me! - The last brilliance for five Sterner missing.
