Keith Jarrett Trio at Carnegie Hall, June 22

[Guy Berger]

Keith started with a brief lecture, bashing Bush and New York jazz critics. The first set consisted of a countrified waltz (which is apparently "Tennesee Waltz"), a ballad, "Budo"/"Hallucinations", another ballad, and a moderately fast tune I didn't recognize.

The first set was solid, but the second set was terrific. They opened "On Green Dolphin Street" with a Carribean-type vamp (better than the Blue Note intro, IMHO). It was great. They did a ballad, then closed with a bossa nova. I was somewhat surprised by this -- they've done "jive bossa" type rhythms on recordings I've heard, but this was an out-and-out bossa nova. Anybody know what tune this was? (One of the ballads in either the first or second set had a gorgeous solo coda by Keith.)

They came back for three oncores -- a ballad, then a free-ish "Straight No Chaser" (opening with a piano-drums duo before Gary came in), and finally "When I Fall in Love". Very nice coda on this last one.

Keith got really annoyed (fairly, IMHO -- and I think a lot of his shtick can be over the top) about the flash photography (which went berserk after the first encore), but was classy enough to do two more encores. All in all, a great concert at least from the second set onward.

Also, one more thing to add -- Carnegie Hall is an AWFUL place to see jazz. Boooo.

Guy

[Guy Berger]

He also played "Last Night When We Were Young," "The Story of Love," "Only the Lonely."  Second set was especially good, and Keith hugged Gary and Jack onstage, clearly a happy performance for the trio.

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David, can you say when in each set these tunes were played? I'm trying to construct a setlist but my standards knowledge is lacking.

Guy

[Guy Berger]

Remembered one more: "Somewhere" (from West Side Story),  but when? Toward end of set 1?

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Was it maybe the first encore?

Was "Last night When We Were Young" the bossa nova at the end of set 2?

Guy