[ Decca / 2 LP ]
Release Date: Friday 23 June 2023
Night and the City was the third in a series of Charlie Haden duet projects for Verve in the 1990s, recorded live at New York City's Iridium Jazz Club in 1996.
Since the mid-1970s, after the great collective and utopian struggles, Charlie Haden has made a specialty of musical conversation, like a return to the essential. Here he is engaging in a loving and modest tête-à-tête with pianist Kenny Barron, full of sobriety and introspective lyricism. A music that is both seductive and audacious, gently nostalgic, between the deep and melancholic bass and the precious harmonies of a piano firmly anchored in the history of jazz.
A1. Twilight Song
B1. For Heaven's Sake
B2. Spring Is Here
C1. Body And Soul
C2. You Don't Know How I Love Is
D1. Waltz For Ruth
D2. The Very Thought Of You