In 1983, acclaimed American jazz pianist
Keith Jarrett asked bassist
Gary Peacock and drummer
Jack DeJohnette (the latter his colleague in the
Charles Lloyd Quartet of the late 1960s) to record an album of jazz standards that was released simply entitled Standards, Volume 1. The three had previously worked on Peacock's 1977 album Tales of Another. Standards, Volume 2 and Changes, both recorded at the same session in New York, followed soon after. The success of these albums and the group's ensuing tour, which came as traditional acoustic post-bop was enjoying an upswing in…
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