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Inside Out is the title of this live recording from a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 2000 given by Keith Jarrett. It's a trio recording with Jarrett on piano, Gary Peacock double bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. This is a very experienced combination who have performed regularly together over a long period. Often, their long group improvicastions have been built around standards from the great American song book but on this occasion most of the tracks take off from original compositions. The numbers have titles but aren't formally composed but start from an improvisatory base. It isn't really accurate to call them free jazz either though, since there are melodies and riffs that drift in and out over a definite rhythmic pulse. As a final encore type feature there is one standard played, When I Fall In Love. Jarrett is the obvious solo leader in these settings with his Glenn Gould style vocal interjections alongside his endlessly inventive playing. But Peacock and DeJohnette are much more than just a rhythm section, soloing underneath the piano to give a many layered density to the sound.