ECM 1531 517 720-2
KEITH JARRETT PIANO
GARY PEACOCK BASS
PAUL MOTIAN DRUMS
SOLAR 11:21
(MILES DAVIS)
BASIN STREET BLUES 9:09
(SPENCER WILLIAMS)
CHANDRA 9:21
(JAKI BYARD)
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS 12:55
(D.RAYE, G.DEPAUL)
YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC 5:41
(ARTHUR SCHWARTZ, HOWARD DIETZ)
BYE BYE BLACK BIRD 10:13
(RAY HENDERSON)
IT'S EASY TO REMEMBER 7:47
(RICHARD RODGERS, LORENZ HART)
Total time: 66:31
RECORDED SEPTEMBER 16, 1992 AT THE DEER HEAD INN
ENGINEER: KENT HECKMANN
Photo: DAVID W. COULTER
COVER DESIGN: BARBARA WOJIRSCH
PRODUCED BY BILL GOODWIN
 1994 ECM RECORDS
ECM RECORDS
POSTFACH 600 331
81203 MÜNCHEN
The Deer Head
When I was about 16 and still living in Allentown, PA. (where I was born), I got a phone call from a drummer I didn't know, who said that there was a place called the Deer Head Inn that needed a trio to fill in one night for the house trio. He also said this was a jazz room and we could play what we wanted.
At this time I had a day job as a shipping clerk at an electrical supply company. This job payed $48 per week and I had just graduated from high school. I had worked locally with some fairly good players (for Allentown), but these jobs were either "commercial" gigs or they were somehow "strange" otherwise. I did often play marimba in a trio because there was no piano at the shopping center bar where we worked.
So, the Deer Head Inn was my first serious trio job on piano.
Over the years, the Deer Head has remained a place for jazz (over 40 years!) and this policy has remained the same (not to mention the room itself). When the owners (Bob & Fay Lehr) retired, their daughter and son-in-law took it over. As a re-christening of their renewed commitment to good music, I decided to play there again. In the intervening years I played often at the Deer Head, but mostly as a drummer in the house trio (with Johnny Coates on piano). Many great players would come and sit in every weekend, and once, while I was sitting in on guitar, Stan Getz offered me a job (as a guitarist!).
Not only had I not played piano at the Deer Head for 30 years, but I hadn't played with Paul Motian for 16 years. So it was like a reunion and a jam session at the same time.
This particular evening was a warm, humid, rainy, foggy autumn night in the Pocono Mountains. The room was full of people, and outside on the porch more people listened through the screen doors.
My friend Bill Goodwin had offered to make a documentary recording for me, and when I heard it I said to myself that this had to be released someday. I think that you can hear on this tape, what jazz is all about.
Keith Jarrett
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