| Standards Live | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Keith Jarrett |
| Cover: | Standards_Live.jpg |
| Released: | January 1986[1] |
| Recorded: | July 2, 1985 |
| Venue: | Palais des congrès de Paris Paris, France |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 54:19 |
| Label: | ECM 1317 |
| Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
| Prev Title: | Standards, Vol. 2 |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Spirits |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
Standards Live is a live album by the Keith Jarrett Trio recorded at the Palais des congrès de Paris on July 2, 1985, and released on ECM in January of the following year—the debut live album by Jarrett's Standards Trio, featuring rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.
Jazz commentator Scott Yanow states that "[t]he interplay between the players was constantly impressive." 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."[2]
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".[3]
Standards Live was recorded during the "Standards trio" July 1985 European tour which, according to www.keithjarrett.org, offered 12 recitals in 26 days:[4]
Book: Carr, Ian . Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music . Da Capo Press . 1992 . 0-306-80478-6.