As Long as You're Living Yours: The Music of Keith Jarrett (2000)

About this title: The songbook craze wheels around to the compositions of Keith Jarrett, which ought to be an oxymoron since we're dealing with an artist who usually makes up things on the wing. Yet it works, for not only does this package isolate and spotlight some nice tunes by the prolific pianist; it also honors his eclectic bent by roaming all over the spectrum in search of diverse idioms. Bruce Hornsby is delightfully funky on piano in a second-line New Orleans treatment of "Backhand," which goes through some riotous passages. Pianist Chucho Valdes bumps through "U Dance" with the unorthodox help of ... read more

Tracks:

1. Backhand [Jarrett]
2. U Dance [Jarrett]
3. Coral [Jarrett]
4. Innocence [Jarrett]
5. Book of Ways #9 [Jarrett]
6. So Tender [Jarrett]
7. Starbright [Jarrett]
8. Book of Ways #10 [Jarrett]
9. The Cure [Jarrett]
10. Shades of Jazz [Jarrett]
11. Somewhere Before [Jarrett]
12. Prism [Jarrett]
13. Everything That Lives Laments [Jarrett]
14. Dancing [Jarrett]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.