Two long out of print concert films of the ‘Standards Trio’ in Tokyo - 1985 and 1986 - make their first appearance on ECM as a specially priced 2-DVD set. The two Japanese shows - earliest filmed documents of the trio - have quite different characters.
Volume I finds Jarrett reaching into a down-home, country-and-gospel inflected mode on several tunes, especially his own piece “Rider” and the Arthur Herzog/Billie Holiday “God Bless The Child”. In these moments, the trio moves into a joyful zone that has qualities in common with Jarrett’s playing in the Belonging band.
Volume II features a particularly exquisite performance of an all-standards programme, with a transcendent “On Green Dolphin Street” and a version of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Woody’n’You” that embodies the best of bebop.
Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double-bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums)
DVD 1:
1. I Wish I knew
2. If I Should Lose You
3. Late Lament
4. Rider
5. It’s Easy To Remember
6. So Tender
7. Prism
8. Stella By Starlight
9. God Bless The Child
10. Delaunay’s Dilemma

DVD 2
11. You Don’t Know What Love Is
12. With A Song In My Heart
13. When You Wish Upon a Star
14. All Of You
15. Blame It On My Youth
16. Love Letters
17. Georgia On My Mind
18. You And The Night And The Music
19. When I Fall In Love
20. On Green Dolphin Street
21. Woody’n You
22. Young And Foolish
Recorded live February 1985 and October 1986
Released 2008.