Trio Da Paz & Joe Locke - Live At JazzBaltica

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 57:48
Size: 132.3 MB
Styles: Brazilian jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[7:38] 1. Dona Maria
[4:45] 2. Copacabana
[8:34] 3. Pro Flavio
[6:50] 4. Sword Of Whispers
[9:25] 5. Bachao
[5:44] 6. Wave
[8:40] 7. All The Things You Are
[6:09] 8. Look To The Sky

The exciting Brazilian jazz group Trio da Paz -- guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Nilson Matta, and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca -- are joined by vibraphonist Joe Locke for this 2007 concert at JazzBaltica in Salzau, Germany. Lubambo's lyrical acoustic guitar makes him the logical heir to earlier Brazilian greats like Laurindo Almeida. Each of the bandmembers contributes enticing originals. The drummer's intense cooker "Dona Maria" showcases Locke in a furious solo, though the guitarist's percolating solo that follows is hardly anticlimactic. Matta's "Copacabana" is a relaxing bossa nova ballad, while Lubambo's driving "Bachiao" is the highlight of their set. Locke's soft ballad "Sword of Whispers" also blends in perfectly. One could hardly expect a Brazilian group to overlook the works of the masterful Antonio Carlos Jobim, and intimate renditions of "Wave" and "Look to the Sky," with Locke sitting out on both, are the Jobim numbers featured on Live at JazzBaltica. A follow-up recording to this enjoyable concert is clearly merited. ~ Ken Dryden

Recording information: Jazzbaltica, Salzau, Germany (07/01/2007).

Romero Lubambo (guitar); Joe Locke (vibraphone); Nilson Matta (bass instrument); Duduka Da Fonseca (drums).

Live At JazzBaltica

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Trio Da Paz - Somewhere

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 60:25
Size: 138.3 MB
Styles: Brazilian jazz
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[3:46] 1. Seven Steps To Heaven
[5:49] 2. Partido Alto
[5:05] 3. Look To The Sky
[3:18] 4. Babel (Samba Novo)
[5:08] 5. Winelight
[3:53] 6. Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
[4:27] 7. Brazilian National Anthem
[5:19] 8. Take Five
[4:14] 9. Batida Diferente
[2:57] 10. O Astronauta
[6:09] 11. Somewhere
[4:46] 12. Loro
[5:28] 13. Corcovado

The well-traveled musicians who make up Trio da Paz (guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Nilson Matta, and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca) have eclectic tastes that range well beyond their native Brazil -- and they choose to exercise them without restraint on this album. Starting out with Miles Davis' "Seven Step to Heaven," the trio swings back and forth between Brazil and the U.S. without a care, filtering almost everything through the bossa nova and samba idioms. The Grover Washington, Jr. hit "Winelight" takes very well to a medium-tempo bossa nova treatment. Even, so help us, "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" is within their range, transformed into a swift samba. However Trio da Paz give Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" a straightforward, American pop standard rhythm, perhaps because they couldn't figure out how to Brazilian-ize it, and the off-kilter three-quarter meter take on the five-four meter "Take Five" nearly stumbles on itself. Among the Brazilian-made tunes, there is some exquisite out-of-the-way Antonio Carlos Jobim ("Look to the Sky") as well as standard-issue Jobim "Corcovado"), rapid-fire Baden Powell in "Babel (Samba Novo)" and "O Astronauta," and a marvelous treatment of Durval Ferreira's "Batida Diferente." Whatever the sources of the material, this trio generates combustible fission that many of today's post-bossa nova recordings don't have. ~Richard S. Ginnell

Somewhere

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