Just as "The Melody at Night with You", also this album will be a classic. Nevertheless, the intensity of the older disc remains unmatched. But compare the solo of the older with the Duets on this, would be perhaps as apples and pears to throw together. Jarrett older solo album as a comeback after almost painful hiatus, felt for me truths by which lay beyond the music, was very melancholy, but not without hope. This duo with Charlie Haden do for me something else. One can indeed Just listen "Do not ever leave me" in the two different versions of two albums. Here the two go very existentially the question of what music is in their favor. They explore with simple and traditional means, the possibilities of classic titles from gathered that not boring occur two ancient paths here, is just the unrehearsed yet sleepwalking interplay of the two musicians over. Everything is new, because there is always spontaneous, heartfelt of the moment is. "One Day I'll Fly Away" in this sense is probably the essence of this new album - which would have made less of this lard case ...
