Notes to Jasmine

"Music is an amazing thing. It doesn't exist as a stationary object. It moves in real time and can be uplifting both to the player and the listener. The melting, trans-figurative moment, that feeling of everything being there, just for an instant, that surrender that overcomes us as players (if we're good enough) and leads us on to the next pregnant second, patient in the knowledge that there always is, waiting in the wings, the next chance to feel this fullness and celebrate it (as it is only in the nature of art to produce it this way); to this we dedicate our lives. But it is not for us alone; it is also made for you, the listener, to feel these same feelings along with us, to participate and to also be uplifted by it. Art is dying in this world, and so is listening, as the world becomes more full of toys and special effects. With this death will come the undoing of many possible feelings: beautiful, tender, deep, trusting, true, sad, full of internal meaning and color. Closeness will not have to necessarily be physical. Intimacy will be hard to find. Communication will be lost. Here is some music for you. Take and it;s yours. Charlie and I are obsessed with beauty. An ecstatic moment in music is worth the lifetime of mastery that goes into it, because it can be shared..."

                                                                               

                                                                            Keith Jarrett

Απόσπασμα από το σημείωμα στο εσώφυλλο του νέου δίσκου των υπέροχων Keith Jarrett (πιάνο και νιαουρίσματα) και Charlie Haden (κοντραμπάσο) με τον τίτλο Jasmine.