Saudades (Trio Beyond album)
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| Live album by Trio Beyond | |
| Released | June 6, 2006 |
| Recorded | Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England, November 21, 2004 |
| Genre | Jazz fusion, jazz funk, free funk |
| Label | ECM |
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Saudades is the name of the debut double-disc album released by Trio Beyond in 2006 on ECM records. Saudades is a Portuguese word meaning sadness or longing for times past, or in a musical context, blues.
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Jack DeJohnette initiated a project to pay tribute to the late Tony Williams' Lifetime... The results on this double-disc album, Saudades, are explosive, dynamic, and utterly compelling... This is one of the finer moments in recent ECM history, and a fitting tribute to Williams and his contribution to a music that sharply divided "purists' (who still are a pain in the ass in trying to preserve jazz as a museum piece), and those more progressive thinking fans who were -- and are still -- looking for a music that could breathe, engage the culture, and continue to grow".
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Disc Two:
"If" is a 12 bar blues composed by Joe Henderson. The band takes this number at around 180 bpm. The head is played twice. John Scofield then plays a guitar solo for 13 choruses, 156 bars. Larry Goldings takes a solo which lasts for 10 choruses. The group then exchange solos for one chorus each, in the following sequence: Scofield, DeJohnette, Goldings, DeJohnette, Scofield, DeJohnette. The exchange of solos continues, then with each player taking just four bars. The sequence is essentially the same (guitar and organ solos alternating, interspersed with drums) but starts with the organ instead of guitar. This 16-bar long pattern repeats three times (48 bars), which of course equates to four choruses. The song is ended with two more repeats of the head. Total song length: 444 bars, at 180 bmp should be 9 mins 52 seconds long. Extra time due to audience and slight (only by 1 or 2 bpm) slowing of tempo.
"As One" has a much freer structure. Larry Goldings is credited with its creation, though one suspects this is a largely spontaneous composition. The first two minutes of the song are an organ solo, in which the mood of the whole song is dictated. Drums and Guitar then join in the fun, but the style remains free. The song grows in intensity to the end, where it leads cleverly into "Allah Be Praised"
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