Wayne Shorter - Footprints - Live

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:31
Size: 146,4 MB
Art: Front

( 5:32) 1. Sanctuary
( 8:28) 2. Masquelero
( 7:59) 3. Valse Triste
( 5:01) 4. Go
( 9:29) 5. Aung San Suu Kyi
( 7:55) 6. Footprints
( 8:28) 7. Atlantis
(10:36) 8. Ju Ju

Could saxophonist Wayne Shorter have known that the songs he wrote and recorded back in the '60s would be fresher than ever over 30 years later? Of course not, but he cranks them out on his new disc Footprints Live! with confident, fresh, Scope-tinged breath. Perhaps the jazz icon didn't realize how timeless his tunes would be, but he knew he'd never lose his cool.

Last year Shorter put together a group of fine musicians pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade a group that resulted in Shorter's first-ever live recording. Give Footprints Live!a spin and get a taste of the juicy, ripe fruit of this acoustic quartet. Fearless leaps toward the next sonic apex keep the players in unconflicting paths to a metaphysical freedom. Blade can feel it and he's not afraid to express it with frequent whoops and "whoas," and percussive outbursts.

But Footprints Live!isn't all jubilance and joy. Shorter gets real solemn sometimes, in that soft, beau-tiful way he lets the notes linger like incense smoke in the sweet air. And the way Perez shimmers around the sax sounds, on moments like the end of "Footprints," is forlorn gorgeousness redefined. The creativity and spontaneous spirit of the group recalls the Miles Davis Quintet that Shorter played with in the late '60s. Polyphonic confluence on songs like "Masquelero" and "JuJu" level into sultry, gaze-inducing rhythms.

These songs are sensual in ways that only the taste buds would know. Shorter and Perez’ interplay is like seltzer clear and effervescent. Patitucci's dynamite bass solos ascend into sheer exuberance. With a naked, flung into the wind way, these musicians express themselves completely, and their unrestrained nature creates constant inspiration. Each moment on Footprints Live! seems new, and the genre known as jazz rejuvenates itself once again. This review first appeared in the June 2002 issue of All About Jazz. By Celeste Sunderland https://www.allaboutjazz.com/footprints-live-wayne-shorter-verve-music-group-review-by-celeste-sunderland

Personnel: Wayne Shorter: tenor and soprano saxophones; Danilo Perez: piano; John Patitucci: bass; Brian Blade: drums

Footprints - Live

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Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucci & Danilo Perez - Music We Are

Styles: Avant-Garde Jazz 
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:34
Size: 144,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:31)  1. Tango African
(7:12)  2. Earth Prayer
(5:36)  3. Seventh D, 1st Movement
(4:37)  4. Seventh D, 2nd Movement
(3:53)  5. Soulful Ballad
(5:02)  6. Earth Speaks
(6:22)  7. Cobilla
(5:03)  8. Panama Viejo
(5:45)  9. White
(9:37) 10. Ode To MJQ
(3:50) 11. Michael

Since the inception of his Golden Beams Productions imprint, Jack DeJohnette has been busy releasing music ranging from the meditational Music in the Key of Ohm (Golden Beams, 2005) and world music-inflected Music from the Hearts of the Masters (Golden Beams, 2005) to the more decidedly improvisational The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (Golden Beams, 2006). A freedom of spirit infuses all his releases, but it's been over a decade since the veteran drummer has released an album as a leader that fits squarely into the jazz category. Still, even more decidedly jazz-centric albums like the open-ended Oneness (ECM, 1997) and career-defining Special Edition (ECM, 1980) are far from predictable. Music We Are may appear, on the surface, to be yet another in a long line of piano trio records released every year not that there's anything wrong with that but in the hands of DeJohnette, pianist Danilo Pérez and bassist John Patitucci, the music not only transcends the expectations of the format, but stretches the boundaries of music, plain and simple. A combination of appealing writing, spare and dark-hued free-play, and an unmistakable sense of fun imbue Music We Are three qualities made even clearer on the 20-minute "making of" DVD that's included with the CD. The three have intersected on various projects over the years: DeJohnette played on Perez's 1992, eponymous Novus debut as a leader; DeJohnette and Patitucci have been Steve Khan's partners of choice dating from the guitarist's Got My Mental (Evidence, 1996) through to the outstanding Borrowed Time (Tone Center, 2007); and, of course, Perez and Patitucci have been one-half of saxophonist Wayne Shorter's empathic quartet since the turn of the century, heard on albums including the startlingly simpatico Beyond the Sound Barrier (Verve, 2005). The same chemistry that the various permutations have brought to other projects is only magnified when the three are brought together in the same room, at the same time. DeJohnette has recorded "Seventh D" before, but here it's divided into two movements that amplify the sheer abandon this trio is capable of, especially "2nd Movement," which is oblique and slightly aggressive, but functions at a deeply focused level of interaction. "Tango African" is, on the other hand, more approachable. DeJohnette and Patitucci overdub the melody, on melodica and electric bass respectively, over their loose but rock-solid foundation of drums and acoustic bass, gradually moving into a groove-laden trade-off between the two. Both demonstrate the considerable stylistic territory that Music We Are covers, without feeling overly considered. Eclectic and esoteric, it's an album that celebrates the cross-pollination of music from the earth's four corners while revering the jazz tradition that permits music to be made on such fertile ground, with abstract classicism, tinges of Gamelan and folkloric innocence intersecting and driving the music to unexpected and joyous places.  A combination of original music and one relatively obscure Latin cover, Music We Are brings three friends together for a recording that, hopefully, signifies the beginning of a longer-term partnership.~ John Kelman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/music-we-are-jack-dejohnette-golden-beams-review-by-john-kelman.php

Personnel: Jack DeJohnette: drums, melodica; John Patitucci: acoustic and electric bass; Danilo Perez: piano, keyboards.

Music We Are

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Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade - Children Of The Light

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:45
Size: 127.6 MB
Styles: Piano trio jazz
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[6:54] 1. Children Of The Light
[4:33] 2. Sunburn And Mosquito
[4:59] 3. Moonlight On Congo Square
[4:26] 4. Lumen
[3:21] 5. Within Everything
[3:38] 6. Milky Way
[9:47] 7. Light Echo Dolores
[4:30] 8. Ballad For A Noble Man (In Memory Of Doug Sommer)
[5:29] 9. Looking For Light
[2:38] 10. Luz Del Alma
[5:23] 11. African Wave

Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade have been three quarters of the extraordinary Wayne Shorter Quartet for more than a decade. Since, they’ve also continued their individual careers as leaders of their own projects and groups. Now, on Children of the Light, they step forward as a trio for the first time with an imagination and fearlessness in their approach that defies the roles and ways of a trio in both obvious and subtle ways.

“We can ‘comprovise’ (spontaneous composition) with dense harmonic and melodic forms, but we can also explore the beauty of a simple harmony,” says Pérez. “And you can see the care each one of us put into the songs we brought in.”

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