Jasmine (album)
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| Studio album by Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden | ||||
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2010-05-12 |
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2007 |
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| Label (s) | Edition of Contemporary Music | |||
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Format (s) |
CD |
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jazz |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
62 minutes 49 seconds |
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| occupation | Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden | |||
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Manfred Eicher |
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Studio (s) |
Cavelight Studio, Oxford Township, New Jersey |
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Jasmine is a duet album released in 2010 by the American pianist Keith Jarrett and the American bassist Charlie Haden .
The album
The album was recorded in 2007 in Keith Jarrett's private music studio in Oxford Township, New Jersey and released on May 12, 2010 by the ECM record label .
Keith Jarrett's collaboration with bassist Charlie Haden began in the late 1960s as Jarrett in a trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian ( drums ), albums such as "Life Between the Exit Signs" ( Vortex Records , 1967), "Restoration Ruin" (Vortex Records, 1968) or Somewhere Before (Vortex Records, 1968).
The collaboration was continued through their interplay in Keith Jarrett's American quartet (with Charlie Haden, Paul Motian and Dewey Redman ( saxophone )), which in the 1970s released albums such as Treasure Island ( Impulse! Records , 1974), The Survivors' Suite ( ECM, 1976), Byablue (Impulse! Records, 1976) or Bop Be (Impulse! Records, 1976). The two musicians hadn't played together for more than 30 years. They only met again when shooting Reto Cardiff's film about Charlie Haden, Rambling Boy (2009). Here they agreed to play together in Keith Jarrett's private Cavelight studio.
“This recording was made in my little studio,” Jarrett says in the album's liner notes . “That's why it sounds so direct and immediate. I decided to play on my American Steinway , even though it's really not in the best shape. But, strangely enough, I just like him. And for the informality and subtle funkyness with which I wanted to approach this music, it is better suited. When you play such great songs, you go straight to the point with the right commitment. We didn't actually rehearse, we only tried out a few chords where necessary. ”The recordings were by no means published directly.“ We kept the tapes under lock and key for almost three years, talking a lot about them, our selection of songs discussed. But then Charlie proved to be my most remarkable and empathetic helper when it came to putting this album together. I just wanted to distill out the essence of what we had. And it took a while before we were no longer fixated on hip solos or slightly weird melodies (although a lot of wonderful things happened there). This is spontaneous music that was created spontaneously and without any preparation. If you ignore the dedication that we have devoted to this music all our lives and that we would of course not exchange for anything in the world. They are great love songs, played by musicians who, at least for the most part, try to keep the original message of the songs intact. I hope you can still hear them from our interpretations. "
The tracks selected for the album are seven less frequently played jazz standards . In addition, the two jazz musicians recorded the track "One Day I'll Fly Away", made famous by the American soul singer Randy Crawford (see track 4 of the album).
The recordings for the album Jasmine were made at the same time as the recordings for the duet album Last Dance , which only appeared on ECM in 2014, shortly before the death of Charlie Haden. Different takes of the tracks “Where Can I Go Without You” and “Goodbye” can be heard on both albums.
The contributors
The musicians and their instruments
- Charlie Haden - double bass
- Keith Jarrett - piano
Production team
- Mayo Bucher - cover design
- Sascha Kleis - design
- Christoph Stickel - audio mastering
- Manfred Eicher - audio mastering
- Rose Anne Jarrett - Photography
- Keith Jarrett - unit manager
The playlist
- Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM 2165 (273 3485))
- For All We Know ( J. Fred Coots , Sam M. Lewis ) - 9:49
- Where Can I Go Without You ( Peggy Lee , Victor Young ) - 9:24
- No Moon at All (Redd Evans, David A. Mann) - 4:41
- One Day I'll Fly Away ( Will Jennings , Joe Sample ) - 4:18
- Intro / I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life ( Cy Coleman , Joseph McCarthy ) - 12:11
- Body and Soul (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green , Edward Heyman , Robert Sour) - 11:12
- Goodbye ( Gordon Jenkins ) - 8:03
- Don't Ever Leave Me ( Oscar Hammerstein , Jerome Kern ) - 3:11
The reception
The release of the duet album Jasmine received very positive recognition in numerous domestic and foreign media, especially since the two musicians had not played together for over thirty years.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung emphasized: “Compared to Jarrett's solo and trio recordings, the duos on“ Jasmine ”seem like still waters; there is little drama, little dynamism. Intro and coda are almost entirely missing. The partners did not want to vary or deconstruct the compositions - old, rarely played standards and an evergreen: "Body And Soul". They got involved in the musical specifications as if they were a momentary fate. Instead of alienating the pieces, they transfigure them. The focus is on the intensity of mood and sound. The tempos are mostly kept low. Haden plays or plays around accompaniment lines mostly in a safe two-beat. He often stays in the lower or middle registers, while Jarrett's left hand indulges in minimalism - the voices hardly cross each other, rather they come together in an intimate unit. In this serenity, however, Jarrett animates and heats the motifs, so that the tones line up with rhapsodically moving melodies. Haden relies on motivic volutes that span the rhythm between clear accents and delays without straining them. - The captivating beauty of these «Moments musicaux» also has a price: You miss the expressive waves; you almost forget life. "
The "Gesellschaft Freunde der Künste" commented: "Sometimes it's just a question of good timing! That Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden have found the perfect time for their reunion can be seen after just a few bars of the first song on their duo album" Jasmine They interpret Fred Coots' "For All We Know" with almost majestic calm and perfect elegance. It is hard to believe that they had gone their separate ways for thirty years in view of their dreamlike interaction. ... Today Jarrett and Haden own one completely different musical maturity and like few other musicians know how to shed everything that is unimportant and to concentrate on the musical essence of the songs they play - even if the tempo is increased like in Redd Evans' "No Moon At All" , this duo exudes an unbelievable calmness, in which its true power lies "
And the Ostthüringer Zeitung also reported on an “hour of happiness: ... Nothing about this recording is determined by haste, that qualifies it for a statement, for a nonetheless hectic business. Jarrett has provided them with a soulful commentary in which he speaks of the dying of art - especially that of listening - and advises that you listen to these retreats on the Great American Songbook late at night with the next person. That sounds more pathetic than this music, which is beautiful with no ifs or buts. A calm masterpiece was created, an island in the river, a lesson because less can be more. "
There were also a few critical voices. The Badische Zeitung commented : “In March 2007, without any preparation, they took a few days to read the Great American Songbook, from which they interpreted love songs and standards such as Body and Soul or For All We Know . A risk-free experiment. With the exception of the 45-second introduction, the program includes foreign compositions that do not bring any surprises. The ballad-like album only gets some news value through Joe Sample's pop song One Day I'll Fly Away . American jazz according to traditional rules. "
English-language appraisals can be found e.g. B. in the Los Angeles Times , at criticaljazz.com or at allmusic.com
In his biography about Keith Jarrett, published in 2015, Wolfgang Sandner rated the duo recordings in the albums Jasmine and Last Dance as "intimate ballads , serene dialogues between two equally determined souls, sometimes in a simple melodic style, but with a sonority and expressiveness that is completely in Bann strikes and reminds you of the early recordings of Keith Jarrett's first trio. "
literature
- Wolfgang Sandner : Keith Jarrett. A biography. Berlin: Rowohlt Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-644-11731-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jasmine at ECM Records. Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
- ^ Vortex catalog at Atlantic Records. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Article in All About Jazz. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Article in Qrious Music. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Last Dance at ECM Records. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review of the album Jasmine in the NZZ. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
- ^ Review of the Jasmine album by the Society of Friends of the Arts. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
- ^ Review of the album in the Ostthüringer Zeitung. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
- ^ Review of the Jasmine album in the Badische Zeitung. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Review of the Jasmine album in the Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
- ^ Review of the Jasmine album at criticaljazz.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review of the Jasmine album at allmusic.com. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Sandner: Keith Jarrett. A biography . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-644-11731-0 .
