30yrs after the break-up of Keith Jarrett’s great ‘American Quartet’, the pianist, & bassist Charlie Haden, have reunited for an album of standards, played with deep feeling & released on the famed ECM label. Jarrett’s first studio album for 12yrs, Jasmine is an intimate, home-studio recording of love songs featuring just Jarrett on piano & Haden on double-bass, truly music making of quite different scale & intention.

Jasmine includes such classic songs as Body & Soul, For All We Know, Where Can I Go Without You, Don’t Ever Leave Me & more; all great love songs, played in a way as to keep the original messages intact. Intimate, spontaneous & warm, Jasmine has affinities, in its unaffected directness, with Jarrett’s The Melody At Night With You. Jarrett & Haden play the music & nothing but the music - as only they can.

Review

“These piano & bass explorations of 8 classic American songs could not be simpler, but the poise & subtlety of
both thought & execution make it a spellbinding experience.” The Guardian