Tribute
Live album by
the Keith Jarrett Trio
ReleasedOctober 1990[1]
RecordedOctober 15, 1989
VenueKölner Philharmonie
Köln, West Germany
GenreJazz
Length1:55:05
LabelECM
ECM 1420/21
ProducerManfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
Paris Concert
(1990) 		Tribute
(1990) 		The Cure
(1991)
Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette chronology
Changeless
(1989) 		Tribute
(1990) 		The Cure
(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.[1]

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]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]

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] (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) – 11:19
  3. "Little Girl Blue" [dedicated to 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

Technical personnel

References

  1. ^ a b ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette: Tribute, accessed May 2020
  2. ^ Keith Jarrett 1989 live concerts accessed May 14, 2020
  3. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed March 29, 2010
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 769. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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