Sunday, December 5, 2010

I was very pleased to find the video linked below on YouTube. It's one of my all-time favourite performances: Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio, with Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock, doing a live version of "Green Dolphin Street". The players, both individually and collectively, are probably the best in the world, and have been for some time, in fact. The song, originally written for a 1947 movie of the same name, is now widely considered as one of the most productive vehicles that an improvisor can play. It contains a lot, in other words, and in the hands of great jazz musicians it begins to yield up musical ideas the way a prism refracts light. It's a perfect song, in my opinion, and this version is probably the best one I've heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSQbxzJyoU

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