Jarrett and Haden may not have played together for thirty years, since Jarrett wound-up his American Quartet with Haden, Dewey Redman and Paul Motian in fact, but you wouldn't guess it from their reunion in 2007. Their rapport is so in tune with each other's playing on this album that Jarrett delighted in relating the story of his tour assistant, not a heavy music fan, observing that if Jarrett played the bass he would play it like Charlie Haden, and if Charlie Haden played piano he would play it like Keith Jarrett. It's a good analogy for what is a true masterpiece in Jarrett's oeuvre. The pianist certainly feels that this is his strongest playing since Radiance – in fact, he felt maybe more so. From the opening ‘For All We Know,’ there is something compelling about the way the music unfolds, a mixture of intensity, yearning and lucid melodic development that demands you follow every nuance. In all, eight unrelated songs somehow cohere logically, one to the other, like a suite that moves through subtly changing moods until it finally makes its point. ‘Body and Soul’ emerges fresh and newly minted, while lesser known songs – such as ‘I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life’ – beguile until it finally dawns on you that here is the first bonna fide jazz classic of the 21st century.