The second posthumous duo album featuring Charlie Haden to be released since the great bassist’s death last year is to be released next month.

The first last year was with Jim Hall recorded in Montreal in 1990. This latest one, also released on the Impulse label, poetically titled as Tokyo Adagio, is more recent, Haden duetting with the Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and dates back to a 2005 Tokyo club recording at the Japanese capital’s Blue Note club.

Haden and Rubalcaba had often recorded together, on albums such as Nocturne (released in 2001) and the Grammy-winning Land of the Sun released in 2004, and here delve deep on six selections: ‘En La Orilla Del Mundo’; the long 11-minute-plus version of ‘My Love And I’; Ornette Coleman tune ‘When Will The Blues Leave’ which featured on the classic 1958 release Something Else; ‘Sandino’; ‘Solamente Una Vez (You Belong To My Heart)’; and ‘Transparence.’

Release date is 8 June. SG