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Pianist Noah Haidu Resurrects Classic Jazz ‘Standards’ Trio of 40 Years Ago
In 1983, iconic jazz musicians Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette made `The Great American Songbook’ cool again with their brilliant ‘Standards, Vol. 1.’ It changed Noah Haidu’s life. Now comes his own ‘Standards’ (Sunnyside Records), a quintet date where his band digs up, dusts off and makes long-dead overcooked chestnuts like “Skylark” (1941), “I Thought About You” (1939), “All The Way” (1957) and “Just In Time” (1956) eminently listenable again.