Jasmine

Jarrett Keith & Charlie Haden

Jasmine
Format
Audio
Publisher
Country
Published
30 April 2010
ISBN
0602527334851

Jasmine

Jarrett Keith & Charlie Haden

Jasmine marks Keith Jarrett’s first recorded collaboration in decades other than with his standards trio, and reunites him with the great bassist Charlie Haden, a close partner until the mid-seventies. Intimate, spontaneous and warm, this album of love songs recorded at Jarrett’s home, has affinities, in its unaffected directness, with his solo collection The Melody At Night With You. These deeply felt performances should inspire any listener “to call your wife or husband or lover in late at night,” as Jarrett says in his liner notes, “These are great love songs played by players who are trying, mostly, to keep the message intact.” The program on Jasmine includes such classic songs as “Body and Soul”, “For All We Know” , “Where Can I Go Without You”, “Don’t Ever Leave Me” as well as a rare Jarrett cover of a contemporary pop song, “One Day I’ll Fly Away”. Jarrett and Haden play the music and nothing but the music - as only they can. As Keith Jarrett says in his liner notes: “This is spontaneous music made on the spot without any preparation save our dedication throughout our lives that we won’t accept a substitute… These are great love songs played by players who are trying, mostly, to keep the message intact.”

Review

Even by the lofty standardsof Keith Jarrett, this issomething special. After 35years, it’s a heartfelt reunionwith Charlie Haden, thebassist in Jarrett’s first trioand in his great ‘American Quartet’ of the1970s. Following 25 years of admittedlysuperb standards albums by Jarrett’s StandardsTrio, the duets comprising Jasmine arean invigorating new format. Recorded atJarrett’s home, Haden plays with tremendouspower for a man of his age, asserting hisseniority, and never allowing Jarrett to straytoo far from the path. This dignified sojournthrough the tin-pan alley canon has thegravitas and unaffected directness of Jarrett’snow-classic solo standards disc, The Melody at Night With You.

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