At the Deer Head Inn

The album was recorded at a venue where Jarrett performed very early in his career,^[5] and was the first to feature Motian since the 1976 session that yielded Byablue and Bop-Be, the final recordings of Jarrett's American Quartet, collected on the 1992 compilation Silence.^[6][7][8]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[8]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "The inventive interpretations give listeners plenty of surprises and variety, making this a very enjoyable outing".^[5]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote: "Motian brings a lighter and more flowing pulse to the music than DeJohnette... 'Bye Bye Blackbird'... glides along without wires or other obvious support for more than ten minutes, a beautiful airborne performance... As so often, Peacock is more forceful and less complex out of the studio... It seems unlikely that Jarrett will ever need to go back to bar-room gigs, but here he's demonstrated his ability to work a small audience with powerful, unpretentious jazz."^[8]

1. "Solar" (Miles Davis) – 11:21
2. "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) – 9:09
3. "Chandra" (Jaki Byard) – 9:21
4. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 12:55
5. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 5:41
6. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 10:13
7. "It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 7:47