Whisper Not (Keith Jarrett album)

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Whisper Not
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Live album by
Keith Jarrett
Released2000, October [1]
Recorded1999, July 5
VenuePalais Des Congrès, Paris (France)
GenreJazz
Length1:53:10
LabelECM Records
[ECM 1724/25]
ProducerManfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
After the Fall
(1998) 		Whisper Not
(2000) 		Inside Out
(2000)
Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette chronology
After the Fall
(1998) 		Whisper Not
(1999) 		Inside Out
(2000)

Whisper Not is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" featuring Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette recorded in concert in July 1999 at the Palais Des Congrès in Paris, France and released by ECM Records in October 2000.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
DownBeat[4]

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and states, "even those who think they have enough material by this group will be rightly tempted to invest in this document of Jarrett's resurrection".[2]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote: "this was a celebratory occasion... one of the first times when Jarrett seemed clear of the chronic fatigue that had afflicted him over the previous two years... one is struck more by the renewed interest in bebop than concerned that there seems to be a slight, almost subliminal dulling of his articulation and phrasing... Peacock and DeJohnette are both in magisterial form... Our nominations for immortality from this set would be 'What Is This Thing Called Love?' and a magnificent 'Poinciana'."[3]

Writing for DownBeat, Ted Panken commented: "the pianist makes a Steinway dance buoyantly through 14 canonical tunes, conjuring free-as-the-wind melodies with effortless grace. The animating imperative here is the syntax of bebop... Unencumbered by iconic interpretations of the now vernacularized repertoire, Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette impart to their statements the improvising-from-point-zero approach that is their trademark; they avoid cliché while retaining idiomatic nuances of phrasing and swing that define the form and make it live. All in all, a stimulating paean to the rejuvenating powers of improvisation by one of the supreme communicators in jazz."[4]

Gary Giddins remarked: "When Jarrett, Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette lift off at medium-up tempos, they create their own orbit. 'Bouncing with Bud,' 'Groovin’ High,' and 'What Is This Thing Called Love?' are spectacular, as are the encores."[5]

Track listing

  1. "Bouncing with Bud" (Bud Powell) - 7:33
  2. "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) - 8:06
  3. "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 8:31
  4. "Chelsea Bridge" (Billy Strayhorn) - 9:47
  5. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) - 5:48
  6. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:45
  7. "Sandu" (Clifford Brown) - 7:26
  8. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) - 12:24
  9. "Conception" (George Shearing) - 8:08
  10. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) - 8:16
  11. "Hallucinations" (Powell) - 6:36
  12. "All My Tomorrows" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:23
  13. "Poinciana" (Nat Simon, Buddy Bernier) - 9:11
  14. "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) - 8:06

Personnel

Technical Personnel

  • Martin Pearson - Recording Engineer
  • Sascha Kleis - Design
  • Manfred Eicher - Production

References

  1. ^ a b ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette: Whisper Not, accessed May 2020
  2. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed March 31, 2010
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 770. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ a b Panken, Ted (February 2001). "Whisper Not". DownBeat. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  5. ^ Gary (2004). Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century. Oxford University Press. p. 294.
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