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Title: Bland...
Review: Jarrett was recovering from ME when he recorded these, and it shows. The standards (all ballads) are played simply and slowly, he uses conventional Bill Evans voicings, and none of his trade-mark lines. Moments of interest are very few and far between: moments of inspiration, non-existant. There's nothing to distinguish this playing from the average cocktail pianist's - that it's so popular is almost insulting to Jarrett's other work.
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