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Saudades (Trio Beyond album)

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Saudades
Live album by
ReleasedJune 6, 2006
RecordedNovember 21, 2004
VenueQueen Elizabeth Hall
London, England
Genre
LabelECM
ECM 1972/73
Jack DeJohnette chronology
The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
(2006)
Saudades
(2006)
Peace Time
(2007)

Saudades (Portuguese: "The Blues") is a live double-album by Jack DeJohnette's Trio Beyond recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on November 21, 2004 and released on ECM June 2006, marking their debut recording. Saudade is a Portuguese word meaning sadness or longing for times past, or in a musical context, blues.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]

A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums, and wrote that it "might be his most incendiary showcase of sheer drumming prowess."[3]

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."[1]

Track listing

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Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."If"Joe Henderson10:07
2."As One"Larry Goldings4:36
3."Allah Be Praised"Larry Young0:43
4."Saudades"
  • Jack DeJohnette
  • Larry Goldings
  • John Scofield
10:46
5."Pee Wee"Tony Williams12:13
6."Spectrum"John McLaughlin16:11
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Seven Steps to Heaven"12:54
2."I Fall in Love Too Easily"10:13
3."Love in Blues"
  • DeJohnette
  • Goldings
  • Scofield
4:45
4."Big Nick"John Coltrane17:08
5."Emergency"Williams11:19

Personnel

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Trio Beyond

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Production

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  • Patrick Murray – engineer
  • Manfred Eicher – mixing, mastering
  • Jan Erik Kongshaug – mixing, mastering
    • mixed and mastered at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, Norway
  • Sascha Kleis – design
  • Lydia DeJohnette – liner photography
  • Roberto Masoti – liner photography

References

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  1. ^ a b Jurek, Thom Allmusic Review accessed August 18, 2011
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1417. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Milkowski, Bill (April 6, 2012). "DeJohnography". JazzTimes. Retrieved May 30, 2020.