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CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS

Keith Jarrett, & Jack DeJohnette Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 8 pm Zellerbach Hall

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, bass Jack DeJohnette, drums

The concert will be determined as the musicians play, and will last approximately two hours, with a 20-minute intermission.

This performance has been made possible in part by members of the Cal Performances Producers Circle.

Cal Performances thanks the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation for their generous support.

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In 2003, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack 2001), which feature recordings of the trio DeJohnette celebrated their 20th anniversary performing freely improvised music live in concert, playing together as one of the premier trios in plus (2002, Juan-Les-Pins, France), history. which returns to the trio performing standards. Jarrett and DeJohnette first played together The latest ECM release (August 2004) is The Out- in 1966-68 as members of the Charles Lloyd Of-Towners, recorded live in concert at ’s Quartet, then for one year in 1970 with Miles National Theatre in July 2001. Davis. All three musicians first played together Trio video releases include: Standards I (1985), in 1977, when Jarrett and DeJohnette played on Standards II (1986), Live at Open Theatre East Gary Peacock’s first ECM Records recording, Tales 1993 and Concert ‘96 – all featuring full of Another. concert performances. They came together as a permanent trio in In the past 20 years, the trio has been 1983, when Jarrett invited the other two to join nominated for many international awards, him in for a recording session dedicated including American Grammy nominations, to playing “standards” – the rich body of American plus dozens of Record of the Year and Critics popular songs from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. At Prize awards from the US, European and Japanese the time it was considered passé for top players to music press. These included the Gold Disc Award concentrate on playing standards instead of original (2000, 2003) from Swing Journal (Japan) and the material, but Keith Jarrett thought it was important Choc des Chocs Award (2000, 2001, 2003) from to show that: “Music wasn’t about material, but Jazzman Magazine (France) for Best Jazz Album what the player brings to the material.” of the Year. In 1999, their Tribute recording was The January 1983 sessions produced the trio’s awarded the Prix du President de la Republique first three ECM releases Standards Vol.1 and Vol. from the Charles Cros Academy, France’s award 2, and Changes. Thirteen “live” concert recordings for the Best Recording of The Year. In 1998 and have followed on ECM, each recorded in a 1999, the trio was voted Best Acoustic Jazz Group different international city: (Paris, in the Downbeat reader’s polls. 1985), Still Live (Munich, 1986), Changeless (US Tour, 1987), Tribute (Cologne, 1989), Standards Over the past 37 years, Keith Jarrett has come in (Oslo, 1989), The Cure (New York, to be recognized as one of the most creative 1990), Tokyo ‘96 (Tokyo, 1996), Whisper Not and uncompromising musicians of our times (Paris, 1999) and Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: – universally acclaimed as an improvisor of The Complete Recordings (New York, 1994). This unsurpassed genius; a master of ; a final recording is a six-CD box set that captured classical pianist of great depth; and a the trio’s complete three-night engagement at the who has written hundreds of pieces for his various in New York in June 1994 jazz groups, plus extended works for orchestra, and was voted “Album of the Year” in the 1996 soloist and chamber ensemble. Downbeat critics poll. Born in May 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, In October 1991, exactly two weeks after the he began playing piano at age 3 and classical studies death of , the trio went into New at age 7, then undertook formal composition York’s Power Station studio and recorded Bye Bye studies at age 15. In the early ‘60s, while still a Blackbird, their deeply felt tribute to the jazz giant teenager, he began playing jazz and was soon that all three had played with in their early years. touring with , then for three years with Recent ECM trio releases include Inside Out Charles Lloyd, and finally with Miles Davis. By the (London, 2000) and (Tokyo, late ‘60s, he was leading his own trio with

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Charlie Haden and drummer (soon Prize at the 25th Anniversary of the Montreal Jazz to be a quartet with saxophonist ) Festival. and recording as a leader for Atlantic, Columbia In 1995 Jarrett became the first musician to and Impulse Records. perform an evening of improvised music at La In 1971 he began an exclusive recording Scala in . A recording of this historic solo collaboration with ECM Records, the visionary concert performance was released to international German label headed by producer . acclaim in 1997. This collaboration has produced a catalogue of more than 60 recordings to date, unparalleled in their Gary Peacock has served as an inspiration for diversity and scope, including 15 trio recordings several generations of jazz bass players, not content (on 23 CDs) with Peacock and DeJohnette; with the traditional bassist’s role of simple time- nine classical recordings of music by Bach, keeping and harmonic accompaniment. His Handel, Mozart and Shostakovich, and Jarrett’s ability to bring melodic and rhythmic freedom groundbreaking solo piano recordings, such as into any musical setting has been his trademark Köln Concert and La Scala, which have helped to for 45 years. redefine the piano in contemporary music. Born in 1935 in Idaho, Peacock first played His most recent solo CD, The Melody At Night, in Los Angeles in the late 1950s with , With You, an intimate studio recording of songs, , Hampton Hawes and . By was released in 1999 and has become one of the the early ‘60s he was in New York playing with Bill best selling jazz CDs of the past decade, winning Evans, Miles Davis, , , many awards worldwide including “Best of The and others. He moved to Japan Year” awards in Japan, France and the US, as for several years in the ‘60’s to study Oriental well as being nominated in 2000 for a Grammy philosophy and medicine, before returning to Award. the US in the early ‘70s to resume active music- Jarrett has garnered many other awards, making and to teach at the Cornish Institute in including eight Grammy nominations and several Seattle. Over the years he has also worked with French Grand Prix du Disque and German Sarah Vaughn, , , Deutsche Schallplattenpries awards. In 1989 the , , French Ministry of Culture elected him an Officer and , to name a few. of the Order of Arts and Letters, one of the highest In recent years Peacock’s other major honors the French nation can bestow upon an collaborations besides the trio with Jarrett and artist. In 1996 he was elected a member of the DeJohnette have included duo tours with guitarist Royal Swedish Academy of Music, joining Duke and work with pianists Paul Bley, Ellington as only the second foreign jazz artist to and , in either duo be so honored. He has been voted Pianist of the settings or in trio with drummer Paul Motian. Year in the Downbeat readers polls (‘94, ‘96, ‘97, In the past 25 years, Peacock has played on ‘99, ‘00, ‘01, ‘03) and in the Downbeat critic’s poll more than 25 ECM Records recordings. (‘96, ‘00, ‘01, ‘02 , ‘03, ‘04). Keith Jarrett was awarded the 2003 Polar Jack DeJohnette is one of the finest drummers Music Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious in jazz. His approach to the drums is that of a music awards, presented by the King of complete musician, exploring the varied colors in a special televised ceremony in Stockholm. In and timbres of his varied percussion instruments, July 2004 he was awarded the Leonie Sonning rather than simple time-keeping. Music prize in Copenhagen and the Miles Davis Born in 1942 in , DeJohnette studied

31 CAL PERFORMANCES ABOUT THE ARTISTS and piano for 10 years as a youth. Touring and recording projects for 2004-’05 In the mid ‘60s he joined include a special trio collaboration with guitarist and as a member of AACM, John Scofiled and organist in a Chicago’s pioneering avant-garde collective Celebration of , a tribute to the ensemble of musicians. In 1966 he headed to legendary late drummer and his benchmark New York, playing first with Jackie McLean, early ‘70s group, The Tony Williams and , before joining Lifetime (which featured Williams on drums, the Charles Lloyd Quartet alongside the young joined by guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Keith Jarrett. By 1967 he was playing with many ). There are also upcoming tours with of the period’s greatest improvisers, including Bill the Latin Project, a septet featuring clarinetist Don Evans, , and Stan Byron and a host of superb Afro-Cuban musicians, Getz, before joining Miles Davis in 1968 to record plus a quartet with pianist , bassist the quintessential jazz/rock fusion record, Bitches and guitarist . Brew, along with John McLaughlin, Chick Corea DeJohnette has garnered many awards including and . France’s prestigious Grand Prix du Disque (1979), After a few years with Miles, DeJohnette Album of the Year awards in the 1984 Downbeat moved on and began recording with many of the readers poll and 1989 critics poll, and Swing Journal finest players in jazz, as well as leading his own (Japan). He has the distinction of having been voted groups. In the , he formed New Directions Best Drummer in the Downbeat reader’s polls for featuring John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez and an unprecedented 13 straight years from 1980 to , followed by Special Edition, and 1992. In 1991 ’s then the Gateway Trio with Dave Holland and awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Music. In John Abercrombie, which is still active today. 1997 he appeared on the Grammy Awards telecast DeJohnette has also been featured in past years with , and Natalie on high-profile CD releases by Herbie Hancock, Cole in a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, and was also a Betty Carter, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Milton featured musician in the film Brothers 2000. Nascimento, John Scofield and , The 2003 Montreal Jazz Festival featured a as well as on sessions with young emerging players four-night retrospective with Jack DeJohnette, that he feels are deserving of greater attention. featuring him performing with different guest In 1972, he began a 30-plus-year recording artists each night, including in trio with Herbie collaboration with ECM Records, where he has Hancock and Dave Holland, duo nights with played on more than 40 recordings with varied Bobby McFerrin and Foday Muso Suso, and groups as a leader, sideman, and in the trio with then the Latin Project. At the 2004 Monterey Jarrett and Peacock. Jazz Festival Jack DeJohnette was again a featured In recent years he has toured with the World artist with three concerts that included a trio with Saxophone Quartet, the Gateway Trio, British and , a duo with Bobby saxophonist , and with African McFerrin, and a night with the Latin Project. musician Foday Muso Suso.

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