Tribute (Keith Jarrett album) explained

Tribute
Type:	Live album
Artist:	the Keith Jarrett Trio
Cover:	Tribute (Keith Jarrett album).jpg
Released:	October 1990^[1]
Recorded:	October 15, 1989
Venue:	Kölner Philharmonie Köln, West Germany
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	1:55:05
Label:	ECM ECM 1420/21
Producer:	Manfred Eicher
Chronology:	Keith Jarrett
Prev Title:	Paris Concert
Prev Year:	1990
Next Title:	The Cure
Next Year:	1991

Tribute is a live double album by the Keith Jarrett Trio recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie on October 15, 1989 and released on ECM a year later. The trio—Jarrett's "Standards Trio"—features rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.

October 1989 tour

Tribute was recorded in concert during the "Standards trio" October 1989 European tour, in which the Keith Jarrett trio performed fourteen concerts:^[2]

• October 1 – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
• October 3 – Berwaldhallen, Stockholm (Sweden)
• October 5 – Koncertsalen i Tivoli, Copenhagen (Denmark)
• October 7 – Konserthuset, Oslo (Norway) recorded and released as Standards in Norway [ECM 1542]
• October 9 – Royal Festival Hall, London (England)
• October 11 – Graf-Zeppelin-Haus, Friedrichshafen (Germany)
• October 15 – Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne (Germany)
• October 16 – Philharmonie Gasteig, Munich (Germany)
• October 18 – Musikhalle, Hamburg (Germany)
• October 19 – Kongreßalle Killesberg, Stuttgart (Germany)
• October 21 – Alte Oper, Frankfurt (Germany)
• October 23 – Palais de la Musique, Strasbourg (France)
• October 25 – Arsenal, Metz (France)
• October 28 – Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris (France)

Reception

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and states, "While the Standards Trio rarely takes anything for granted, transforming everything in its path, the results are not quite as inventive here as on other releases".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Lover Man" [dedicated to [[Lee Konitz]]] (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 13:14
2. "I Hear a Rhapsody" [dedicated to [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]]] (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) – 11:19
3. "Little Girl Blue" [dedicated to [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]]] (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:05
4. "Solar" [dedicated to [[Bill Evans]]] (Miles Davis) – 9:32
5. "Sun Prayer" (Keith Jarrett) – 14:15
6. "Just in Time" [dedicated to [[Sonny Rollins]]] (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 10:07
7. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" [dedicated to [[Coleman Hawkins]]] (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 8:26
8. "All of You" [dedicated to [[Miles Davis]]] (Cole Porter) – 8:08
9. "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" [dedicated to [[Anita O'Day]]] (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 7:02
10. "All the Things You Are" [dedicated to [[Charlie Parker]]] (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 8:57
11. "It's Easy to Remember" [dedicated to [[John Coltrane]]] (Hart, Rodgers) – 7:08
12. "U Dance" (Jarrett) – 10:46

Personnel

Keith Jarrett Trio

• Keith Jarrett – piano
• Gary Peacock – bass
• Jack DeJohnette – drums

Technical personnel

• Manfred Eicher – producer
• Jan Erik Kongshaug, O. Fries – recording engineer
• Barbara Wojirsch – cover design

Notes and References

1. ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette: Tribute, accessed May 2020
2. https://www.keithjarrett.org/past-concerts/#1989 Keith Jarrett 1989 live concerts
3. Ginell, R. S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r160511|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed March 29, 2010