Last Dance (album)
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Last Dance is a music album by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden . It was recorded in Jarrett's converted barn home studio in Oxford, New Jersey , in March 2007 and released by ECM in June 2014, one month before Haden's death on July 11, 2014.
The album
The renewed collaboration with bassist Charlie Haden in 2007 followed up on Keith Jarrett's American quartet (with Charlie Haden, Paul Motian and Dewey Redman ), with whom he recorded LPs such as Treasure Island ( Impulse! Records ) and The Survivors' Suite in the 1970s (ECM, 1976) or Bop Be (Impulse !, 1977). In the following years, the two musicians had not recorded together and only met again during the recording of Reto Cardiff's film about the bassist, Rambling Boy (2009).
The recordings for the album were made at the same time as those for the ECM album Jasmine , which was released on ECM in 2010 and already contained a take of the song Where Can I Go Without You . Soon after the 2007 recordings, the outbreak of post-polio syndrome made it largely impossible for Haden to be an active musician. The session material now presented included jazz standards , mostly love songs from the Great American Songbook such as My Old Flame, It Might as Well Be Spring , Everything Happens to Me , Every Time We Say Goodbye, and two faster-paced numbers that Bud- Powell composition Dance of the Infidels and Thelonious Monks classic 'Round Midnight . The album closes with goodbye from Gordon Jenkins ; Haden had already recorded the latter with his Quartet West in 1991 (for the album Haunted Heart ).
Haden and Jarrett played the goodbye theme known from Benny Goodman , "slower but more emotionally lingering". Jarrett had played Monks ' Round Midnight several times with his trio; "Here it is offered with a curious, almost strange-looking intro." Everything Happens to Me is interpreted more in up tempo ; Haden's “powerful tone and infallible swing ” complement Jarrett's song-like piano artistry in melody and solo.
Commenting on working with Haden, Jarrett said, “When we play together, it's like two people singing together.” Haden said of both exploring melodies and lyrics, “Keith really listens, and I listen too. That is the secret. It's about hearing. "
Track list
- Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM 2399 (378 0524))
- My Old Flame ( Sam Coslow / Arthur Johnston ) -10: 19
- My Ship ( Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill ) -9: 37
- Round Midnight ( Thelonious Monk / Cootie Williams ) -9: 34
- Dance of the Infidels ( Bud Powell ) -4: 23
- It Might as Well Be Spring ( Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers ) -11: 55
- Everything Happens to Me ( Thomas Adair / Matt Dennis ) - 7:13
- Where Can I Go Without You ( Peggy Lee / Victor Young ) -9: 33
- Every Time We Say Goodbye ( Cole Porter ) -4:25
- Goodbye ( Gordon Jenkins ) -9:08
reception
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung highlighted:
- The partners didn't want to vary or deconstruct the compositions - old, rarely played standards…. 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 magazine Jazzthing wrote: How Jarrett kaleidoscopically structures the most famous topic from the pen of the bop eccentric Thelonious Monk in the intro, introduces the segments into the improvisation and only celebrates the topic at the end, testifies to the passionate examination of its bulky attractiveness.
Thom Jurek wrote in Allmusic ,
- “The two are not exaggerating anything; the music stands for itself. They relax with their beautiful game in which hints, inspirations and references to popular music bridge the space. Last Dance is a necessary addition to Jasmine , and it underpins the confident, mature, engaging, and eloquent delivery in a canon language that these two jazz masters share. "
John Kelman wrote in All About Jazz that Last Dance was one of Jarrett's most beautiful and intimate recordings with Jasmine , and that despite the thirty-year break in their musical partnership, the two would play together in such a way that time stands still and as if not a second had passed since their last collaboration .
The reviewer from Le Soir , who gave the album four stars, called it a magical record, bewitching, very clearly. In view of the poor state of health, the title of the album was foreshadowing.
The London Jazz News reviewer feels like piano-bass duets by Hank Jones , Paul Bley , Denny Zeitlin , John Taylor and Chris Anderson ; Jarrett's few attempts in this direction include a session with Haden for the 1976 album Closeness .
The advertising paper Jazzecho noted that Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden also celebrate “the fine art of intimate duo playing” on Last Dance . For Doug Ramsey , this duo takes on a sharpness that goes beyond the empathy that Haden and Jarrett develop in the nine standards.
Charles Gans wrote in the Star Tribune that the album conveys “both a feeling of joy and sadness”, “There is joy in hearing these two jazz masters together in this relaxed, intimate setting where each complements, supports and supports the other listen to each other without wasting a note. The sadness results from the fact that the album was 'the last dance' of this masterful duet. "
success
The album reached the top of the German jazz charts for two months in July and August 2014 . In 2015 Last Dance received, among other things, a platinum record (Jazz Award) for over 20,000 units sold in Germany. The album is one of the best-selling jazz albums in Germany .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the album in AAJ
- ↑ http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/06/cd-review-keith-jarrett-charlie-haden.html
- ^ A b Doug Ramsey: Monday Recommendation: Jarrett and Haden
- ^ Review of the album Last Dance at Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 13, 2014.
- ↑ Original: When we play together it's like two people singing
- ↑ Original: Keith really listens, and I listen. That's the secret. It's about listening
- ↑ Information about the album at ECM ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Immersed in the moment - review of the album Jasmine in the NZZ
- ↑ Jazzthing 104, June - August 2014
- ↑ " They do not overstate anything; the music provides meaning all on its own. They relax into its beauty playing toward one another as hints, suggestions, and references to popular music history bridge the space between. Last Dance is a necessary addendum to Jasmine; it fleshes out the confident, mature, amiable, and eloquent speech in the canonical language these two jazz masters share “ Review of the album Last Dance at Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 13, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.lesoir.be/597507/article/culture/musiques/2014-07-12/c-etait-last-dance-charlie-haden
- ↑ http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/06/cd-review-keith-jarrett-charlie-haden.html
- ↑ http://www.jazzecho.de/keith-jarrett/news-und-rezensions/news/article:228559/keith-jarrett-und-charlie-haden-mit-neuem-duo-album-last-dance
- ↑ Review: pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Charlie Haden evoke joy and sadness on 'Last Dance' in Star Tribune ( memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ MediaControl Jazz Charts . ( Memento from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) jazzecho.de, accessed on May 14, 2020.
- ↑ MediaControl Jazz Charts . ( Memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) jazzecho.de, accessed on May 14, 2020.
- ↑ GOLD / PLATINUM database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
