EXCLUSIVE METROPOLITAN AREA APPEARANCE!
CELEBRATING THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY TOGETHER,
KEITH JARRETT RETURNS TO NJPAC
WITH GARY PEACOCK & JACK DE JOHNETTE IN AN EVENING OF INSPIRED WORLD-CLASS JAZZ
FOR ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 8 P.M.
Newark, NJ (January 4. 2008) – NJPAC presents one of the premier trios in jazz history – the legendary pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock (bass) and Jack De Johnette (drums) – for one performance only at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 2 at 8 pm in Prudential Hall. Tickets are $23, $42, $50, $62 and $69. Tickets may be purchased by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at
http://www.njpac.org/ This event is part of NJPAC’s Wachovia Jazz series. All Jazz events at NJPAC are presented in cooperation with WBGO/88.3FM.
In 1998, after nearly a three-year absence from the concert platform, the Keith Jarrett Trio made a triumphant return to the stage, playing to a nearly sold-out house at NJPAC. Returning to NJPAC for the fourth time, Jarrett’s trio has continued to win acclaim for its live performances and recordings. For two-and-half decades, Jarrett, Peacock and De Johnette have brought their elegant yet soulful genius to an amazing wide and rich repertoire, reaching from the great standards of the golden age of pop songwriting to their own improvisations.
“The trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette is about as good as it gets,” wrote Mike Zwerin, music critic for the International Herald-Tribune. Keith Jarrett (pianist), Gary Peacock (bassist) and Jack DeJohnette (drummer) first performed together in 1977, when Jarrett and DeJohnette played on Peacock’s first ECM Records recording, Tales of Another. They became a permanent trio in 1983 when Jarrett invited the other two to join him in New York for a recording session dedicated to playing the rich body of American popular “standards” from the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s. These sessions produced the trio’s first ECM releases -- Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM, 1985), Standards, Vol. 2 (ECM, 1985) and Changes (ECM, 1984) To celebrate the occasion of their 25th year together, ECM Records has released Setting Standards: New York Sessions, a three-CD set which brings together the entire output of those first session.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located in the heart of an emerging downtown Newark, New Jersey, is the sixth largest performing arts center in the United States. Home of the Grammy® Award-winning New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, NJPAC has been widely cited as a catalyst in the revitalization of New Jersey's largest city, attracting over 5 million visitors (including more than 900,000 children) in its first ten years of operation.
Programming has been made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
NJPAC is a wheelchair accessible facility and provides assistive services such as TTY ticket purchase, designated seating, Sennheiser infrared listening devices and seat cushions
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