Charlie Haden & Hank Jones - Steal Away (1995)

Tracklist

01. It's Me, O Lord (Standin' In The Need Of Prayer)
02. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
03. Spiritual
04. Wade In The Water
05. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
06. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
07. L'Amour De Moy
08. Danny Boy
09. I've Got A Robe, You Got A Robe
10. Steal Away
11. We Shall Overcome
12. Go Down, Moses
13. My Lord, What A Mornin'
14. Hymn Medley: Abide With Me/Just As I Am...


personnel:

Charlie Haden - bass
Hank Jones - piano

Charlie Haden has always had a penchant for roots music, including folk songs from varied traditions in the repertoire of his Liberation Music Orchestra. It's more than affectation; the bassist's musical roots are in Oklahoma, and his career began in early childhood with his family's country-music group. Those sources loom large in this inspired meeting with pianist Hank Jones over a program devoted largely to spirituals, with a few secular folk songs added in. The feelings communicated here arise from no simple reading of traditional material. It's Jones's unmatched harmonic sensitivity that often works the transformation, his close-voiced chords adding new resonance to summon the depths at which this material communicates. Haden, for his part, is as effective a soloist as he is an accompanist, spare and exacting and making full use of his huge, dark sound and powerful lower register. This is music by two masters, immersing themselves in a profound stream of American music. --Stuart Broomer