Last Dance features more music from the highly creative session at Keith Jarrett’s home studio which brought forth the much-loved Jasmine album. In this new selection Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of the project to include jazz classics like Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” and Bud Powell’s spritely “Dance of the Infidels”, dazzlingly interpreted by the duo. Love songs are still to the fore, with tender versions of “My Old Flame”, “My Ship”, “It Might As Well Be Spring”, “Everything Happens To Me”, and “Every Time We Say Goodbye” as well as alternate takes of “Where Can I Go Without You” and “Goodbye”, every bit as touching as the Jasmine renditions. “When we play together it’s like two people singing”, said Jarrett of this reunion with Haden. The intentions of the song are honoured, the shades of meaning in a melody or a lyric explored instrumentally. As Charlie Haden put it, “Keith really listens, and I listen. That’s the secret. It’s about listening.”

Tracklist:
1. My Old Flame (Arthur Johnston)
2. My Ship (Kurt Weill)
3. ’Round Midnight (Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk)
4. Dance of the Infidels (Bud Powell)
5. It Might As Well Be Spring (Richard Rodgers)
6. Everything Happens To Me (Thomas Adair)
7. Where Can I Go Without You (Victor Young)
8. Every Time We Say Goodbye (Cole Porter)
9. Goodbye (Gordon Jenkins)