Standards Live

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Jazz commentator Scott Yanow states that "[t]he interplay between the players was constantly impressive."^[4] The Rough Guide to Jazz describes the concert as "exceptional", singling out the performance of "Too Young to Go Steady" as "one of the most perfect and exultant trio performances in the whole of jazz."^[5]

In his biography of Jarrett, Ian Carr describes the album as "superlative: the incredible dynamism, the sheer creativity of the three men, the feeling of ecstasy that pervades the whole concert and the interplay and inter-dependence of the trio," singling out "Stella by Starlight" as "exquisite and gripping".^[6]

Standards Live was recorded during the "Standards trio" July 1985 European tour which, according to www.keithjarrett.org, offered 12 recitals in 26 days:^[7]

• 1 – Paris (France)
• 2 – Paris (France)
• 3 – Ravenna (Italy)
• 4 – Ravenna (Italy)
• 10 – Montreux (Switzerland)
• 12 – Den Haag (Netherlands)
• 15 – Lyon (France) during the Nuits de Fourvière festival
• 17 – Salon-de-Provence (France)
• 18 – San Sebastian, Donostia (Spain) during the San Sebastian Jazz Festival
• 19 – San Sebastian, Donostia (Spain)
• 23 – Antibes (France)
• 26 – Montpellier (France)

1. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 11:15
2. "The Wrong Blues" (William Engvick, Alec Wilder) – 8:03
3. "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 8:44
4. "Too Young to Go Steady" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 10:10
5. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 9:31
6. "The Old Country" (Nat Adderley, Curtis Lewis) – 6:36