Tokyo '96

Tokyo '96 is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" featuring Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette recorded in concert in March, 1996 at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo (Japan) and released on the ECM label in 1998.[1] Filmed footage of the concert was originally released as Trio Concert 1996 (by Image Entertainment in VHS and DVD formats).

Tokyo '96
Live album by
Keith Jarrett
Released1998, April [1]
Recorded1996, March 30
VenueBunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo (Japan)
GenreJazz
Length1:19:05
LabelECM
[ECM 1666]
ProducerManfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
La Scala
(1995)		 Tokyo '96
(1998)		 A Multitude of Angels
(1996)
Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette chronology
Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note
(1994)		 Tokyo '96
(1996)		 After the Fall
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Standards Trio in 2008, ECM Records acquired rights to the filmed performance and released a double-DVD set called Live In Japan 93/96, which featured Trio Concert 1996 and another Trio film, Live at Open Theater East.

March–April 1996 Tour in Japan

Tokyo '96 was recorded on March 30 during a tour in Japan where, according to www.keithjarrett.org, Jarrett's "Standard trio" performed 10 times in 16 days.[4]

  • March 20 - Public Hall, Shibuya
  • March 22 - Sunpalace Hall, Fukuoka
  • March 25 - Festival Hall, Osaka
  • March 26 - Kaikan Hall 1, Kyoto
  • March 28 - Arts Center, Aichi
  • March 30 - Orchard Hall, Bunkamura, Tokyo
  • April 1 - Orchard Hall, Bunkamura, Tokyo
  • April 2 - Orchard Hall, Bunkamura, Tokyo
  • April 4 - Arts Theater, Saitama
  • April 5 - Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and states, "the standards trio lives up to its formidable track record of consistency and then some. Jarrett and perennial cohorts Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette are, if anything, even sharper, swinging harder and more attuned to each other than ever".[2]

In November 1998 All About Jazz review by Christopher Hoard noted:

"The music here is so startlingly pure in its conception, it sadly harkens to the fact that with few exceptions, little remains today in jazz which attains the force and beauty of those original standards, those moods and statements we find Jarrett continually resurrecting in a new hues and phrasings. Sadly it seems, Jarrett may be last in a line of this centuries greatest musical impressarios. If you open up to the music revealed on this recording, it indeed seems improbable that any of a younger generation of jazz musicians will even attempt to live up to the standard this group realizes for meeting up with music and an audience in a room. I sincerely hope I'm wrong here".[5]

Track listing
  1. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 11:38
  2. "Never Let Me Go" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) - 7:02
  3. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) - 8:07
  4. "Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) - 7:37
  5. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 10:20
  6. "Mona Lisa" (Evans, Livingston) - 3:16
  7. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 7:58
  8. "Last Night When We Were Young/Caribbean Sky" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg/Keith Jarrett) - 9:55
  9. "John's Abbey" (Bud Powell) - 5:50
  10. "My Funny Valentine/Song" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers/Jarrett) - 7:16

Total effective playing time: 1:16:27 (the album contains 2:38 applause approximately)

Personnel

Technical personnel
  • Toshio Yamanaka - recording engineer
  • Kuni Shinuhara - photography
  • Michael Hofstetter - cover design
  • Manfred Eicher - production

References
  1. ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette: Tokyo '96, accessed May 2020
  2. Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 772. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Keith Jarrett 1996 live concerts accessed January 2021
  5. Christopher Hoard. All About Jazz Review accessed December 2020
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