My review of Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette's Somewhere, today at All About Jazz.


It's been a few years since the pianist's Standards Trio last released a record, and to be honest, with its past few ECM recordings - 2009's Yesterdays, 2007's My Foolish Heart and 2004's The Out-of-Towners - it's raised more than a few questions about this trio's ability to bring something new to the table, despite a handful of shows in almost all of the ensuing years.


Somewhere resolves any such concerns. Possibly the trio's best standards-based live recording since the high bar-setting Still Live (1986), this live recording from Switzerland in summer, 2009 proves that this trio - celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, after first walking into the New York City studios for the remarkably fruitful January, 1983 sessions that yielded Standards Vol. 1 (1983), Changes (1984) and Standards, Vol. 2 (1985) (brought together in the 2008 ECM box, Setting Standards: New York Sessions) - still not only has plenty more to say, but does so with as much passion, panache and paradoxical strength and subtlety as ever.


A beautiful setlist, a tremendous recording. Review here.