Jarrett's Standards trio features rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.

[2][3] Jarrett would also recorded the solo clavichord album Book of Ways during a day-off day of the tour.

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars and states, "Jarrett treats his brace of pop and jazz standards with unpredictable, often eloquently melodic and structural originality....

In his 2002 Records to Die For, Stereophile's Lonnie Brownell remarked:Over the past 30 years, Keith Jarrett has released 46 albums as a leader on the ECM label.

Jarrett and Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette flow from Richard Rodgers to Oscar Hammerstein to Harold Arlen to Keith Jarrett to spontaneous free interpretive variation to Charlie Parker and back again, until it no longer matters where Johnny Mercer leaves off and this trio begins, because it is all one tribal dance.