Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine

"The Melody at Night with You".  With bass.

"Jasmine" is the new duo album from master musicians Keith and Charlie.

In the liner notes KJ bemoans - "Art is dying in this world, and so is listening, as the world becomes more full of toys and special effects".  Couldn't agree more.

So switch off your phone, stop googling, facebooking, youtubeing, etc and switch off the computer and TV, chuck the ipod in the cupboard, put this cd on the hi-fi, sit down and relax.

Stop multi-tasking and give up an hour to the music. Listen - that's what those things on the side of your head are for - and enjoy. Totally absorbing and sublime.

KS

“Music is an amazing thing. It doesn’t exist as a stationary object. It moves in real time and can be uplifting both to the player and the listener.

The melting, trans-figurative moment, that feeling of everything being there, just for an instant, that surrender that overcomes us as players (if we’re good enough) and leads us on to the next pregnant second, patient in the knowledge that there always is, waiting in the wings, the next chance to feel this fullness and celebrate it (as it is only in the nature of art to produce it this way); to this we dedicate our lives.

But it is not for us alone; it is also made for you, the listener, to feel these same feelings along with us, to participate and to also be uplifted by it. (…)”