Pianist/composer Noah Haidu’s new album Standards – out Friday June 23, 2023 via Sunnyside Records – celebrates the 40th anniversary of the release that launched Keith Jarrett’s great Standards Trio.
“He has developed his own compelling brand of pianism…The eight tracks here form less a tribute than a reflection on the ways in which Mr. Jarrett’s approach to the piano, to a standard, to the communication within a trio—get absorbed and distilled by Mr. Haidu’s own trio with bassist Buster Williams and drummer Billy Hart, and on how pain gives way to joy.” – Larry Blumenfeld, Wall Street Journal writing about Haidu’s SLOWLY