Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance

Keith Jarrett is in no danger of under-documenting his genius. The shelves of devoted admirers are groaning under the pianist's output over the past five decades, but when it comes to Jarrett, there's always room for one more. Music from this homemade duo recording in 2007 was released four years ago as the beautiful Jasmine. Now here's more from the same low-key session, and of course it's gorgeous. Two old friends, who just happen to be pivotal figures in modern American music, leaf through tunes they've known all their lives, following each other through a labyrinth of chord substitutions and offset rhythms. Haden is a master of broken lines and, over them, perhaps the most effortlessly fluid and inventive improviser of his generation drops his beautifully spontaneous melodies. If you must, you must. propermusic.com