JARRETT, KEITH & CHARLIE HADEN

’Jasmine’ is as unashamedly expressive a recording as either man has ever made. Throughout, the duo operates in a comfort zone that values felicitous melody and openhearted sentiment over displays of bravado.“
– Steve Futterman, The New Yorker

In a similar way as Last Dance, Jasmine – originally released in 2010 – captures the intimate one-off session and reunion of Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden, who are documented exchanging familiar glances in duo over several sets of standards at Jarrett’s home studio in New Jersey. At the time of the album’s release, the Financial Times fittingly observed, “it is more than 30 years since they last recorded together, but their dialogue has the detailed intimacy of old friends exploring common themes.” Now available for the first time ever on vinyl, Jarrett and Haden’s unmatched two-way understanding can be re-discovered anew, radiating with great warmth on classic songs like “Body and Soul”, “For All We Know” , “Where Can I Go Without You”, “Don’t Ever Leave Me” and more. 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.”

Re-issued as part of ECM’s Luminessence series, Jasmine is released on vinyl for the very first time, arriving in a tip-on gatefold jacket with all the original material from the initial CD release intact.