Up for It

Up For It is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" featuring Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette recorded at the Jazz à Juan festival in Juan-les-Pins, France, on July 16, 2002 and released by ECM Records in May 2003.[1]

Up For It
Live album by
Keith Jarrett
Released2003, May [1]
Recorded2002, July 16
VenueJazz à Juan, Juan-les-Pins (France)
GenreJazz
Length1:13:09
LabelECM Records
[ECM 1860]
ProducerManfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
The Out-of-Towners
(2001)		 Up For It
(2003)		 Radiance
(2002)
Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette chronology
The Out-of-Towners
(2001)		 Up For It
(2002)		 Somewhere
(2009)


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

Even though the concert was performed after My foolish heart and The Out-of-Towners (both recorded in 2001) it was released much before to celebrate the Standards Trio 20th anniversary.

Background and making of

In his very long, detailed and epic liner notes titled "The Triumph of Desire" Keith Jarrett described the conditions under which this concert took place and how the band overcame them:

"(..) the day of the concert arrived and we found ourselves driving, in the rain, to the site. The weather still looked miserable."

"We couldn't do a sound check so there we were, in little faux-backstage unheated (or cooled) rooms with no bathrooms, gazing tiredly out at the rain, which persisted as though it was a permanent feature of the landscape. Gary was 67 years old and had just recently undergone treatment for cancer followed closely by a major operation. He looked absolutely lost and forlorn in his room. Jack, 59, had, just the year before, been hit by one of the wall panels put up on this stage, as a particularly nasty bit of wind came by (that was the windy year), and had had his share of physical ailments in the last few years. I, 57 at the time, had recovered slowly from CFIDS (ME or Myalgic Encephalitis), having been brought down by this terrible disease in 1996. I had a deteriorating spinal condition, bulging discs in my neck, various arthritic conditions, and an inflammatory shoulder problem. Needless to say, the drive to the concert site this particular day was not inspiring."

"What ended up on the recording represents, to me, the triumph of desire over circumstance, the triumph of youthful exuberance over age, and our need for music and wisdom. There was a fluidity of ideas and a rhythmic commitment to the groove that went on for the entire concert, despite the odds against it. Since this music was an unwitting gift from the sun to us, I pass it on - a little, flawed gem of sweet swinging in the rain - from the three of us to you, our faithful listeners for more than 20 years. When we were on stage in the middle of the music, nothing else mattered. We were home."

July 2002 Tour

Up for it was recorded during the Standards Trio July 2002 European tour which, according to www.keithjarrett.org, offered 6 recitals in 14 days. [4]

  • 8 - Piazza Anfiteatro, Lucca (Italy)
  • 10 - Teatro Smeraldo, Milano (Italy)
  • 12 - L’Auditori, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 16 - Pinède Gould, Juan-Les-Pins (France)
  • 18 - Centralino del Tennis, Rome (Italy)
  • 21 - Stravinski Hall, Montreux (Switzerland) during the Montreux Jazz Festival

Track listing
  1. "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser)
  2. "Butch & Butch" (Oliver Nelson)
  3. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  4. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker)
  5. "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey)
  6. "Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West" (John Lewis)
  7. "Autumn Leaves"/"Up for It" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert)(Keith Jarrett)

Total effective playing time: 1:09:19 (the album contains 3:50 applause approximately)

Personnel

Technical Personnel
  • Martin Pearson - Recording Engineer
  • Yannick Seuret - Photography
  • AFP Photo / Vanina Lucchesi - Photography
  • Sascha Kleis - Design
  • Manfred Eicher - Production
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  • "Keith Jarrett , Gary Peacock , Jack DeJohnette - Up For It (CD) at Discogs". discogs.com. 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2011.

References
  1. ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / DeJohnette: Up For It, accessed May 2020
  2. Jurek, Thom (2011). "Up for It: Live in Juan-Les-Pins - Keith Jarrett | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 771. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Keith Jarrett 2002 live concerts accessed May 18, 2020
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