At the Deer Head Inn

At the Deer Head Inn is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian recorded in concert in September 1992 in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania at the Deer Head Inn and released by ECM Records in 1994.[1] The album was recorded at a venue where Jarrett performed very early in his career and was the first to feature Motian since Bop-Be in 1976.

At the Deer Head Inn
Live album by
Keith Jarrett
Released1 April 1994[1]
Recorded16 September 1992[2][3]
VenueDeer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA (USA)
GenreJazz
Length66:27
LabelECM Records
[ECM 1531]
ProducerBill Goodwin
Keith Jarrett chronology
Bridge of Light
(1994)		 At the Deer Head Inn
(1994)		 Standards in Norway
(1995)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[5]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "The inventive interpretations give listeners plenty of surprises and variety, making this a very enjoyable outing".[4]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote: "Motian brings a lighter and more flowing pulse to the music than DeJohnette... 'Bye Bye Blackbird'... glides along without wires or other obvious support for more than ten minutes, a beautiful airborne performance... As so often, Peacock is more forceful and less complex out of the studio... It seems unlikely that Jarrett will ever need to go back to bar-room gigs, but here he's demonstrated his ability to work a small audience with powerful, unpretentious jazz."[5]

Track listing
  1. "Solar" (Miles Davis) - 11:21
  2. "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) - 9:09
  3. "Chandra" (Jaki Byard) - 9:21
  4. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 12:55
  5. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 5:41
  6. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) - 10:13
  7. "It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:47

Personnel

Production

  • Bill Goodwin - producer
  • Kent Heckman - engineer (recording)
  • David W. Coulter - photobraphy
  • Barbara Wojirsch - cover design

References
  1. ECM Records Jarrett / Peacock / Motian: At the Deer Head Inn, accessed June 2020
  2. Past concerts - KeithJarrett.org
  3. Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian – At The Deer Head Inn at Discogs
  4. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 30, 2010
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 770. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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