The riveting duo of Charlie
Haden and Brad Mehldau was recorded back in 2007 at a European jazz festival,
and got stuck in the atmosphere for better than a decade until becoming
recently available. Much credit goes to Impulse! Records because the shortest
of the six cuts is 9:30 and the longest is 15:11. That doesn't make this CD
exactly radio friendly. Despite that, here it is, as Haden and Mehldau get
plenty of stretch out room in "Au Privave", "My Old Flame",
"What'll I Do", "Long Ago And Far Away", "My Love And
I", and "Everything Happens To Me". Mehldau remains very active
today but Haden has passed on since these thoughtful, artful live performances.
To be sure, this is a riveting, understated, communicative pairing; they give
it every ounce of their collective emotion. "Hearts on their sleeves"
sort of stuff, one might say. And we don't encounter that sort of thing all
that often these days.
Impulse!; 2018; appx. 72 min.
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