Up For It

Celebrating 20 years of his trio's life as a working band, Keith Jarett issues a sparkling and trimphant performance from 2002's rainswept Antibes Festival, in which standards are re-investigated from a new perspective. Buoyant, exhilarating performances from all three players, "swinging in the rain", as Jarrett says in his liner notes.

"After 20 years together, Jarrett's Standards Trio with Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums continues to deserve all the prizes it can get. Rarely has collective improvisation been on such a sophisticated and communicative level, or has the verb "swing" been more subtly defined."
-Mike Zwerin, International Herald Tribune

"This outstanding album completes the rehabilitation of Jarrett the piano master. The Melody At Night showed us that the melodic craftsman was still at large. Whisper Not reminded us of the fluency that he brought to bebop but this superb release presents his current concert persona, in the presence of his (almost) life long partners and playing with exhilarating freedom."
-Barry McRae, Jazz Journal International