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Caribe is a jazz album by saxophonist David Sánchez . The recordings were released on Ropeadope / Groove Attack in 2019.
background
On the new album, Sánchez shifts his focus to Haitian music, especially rhythms like Petwo and Kita, wrote John Murph on the Down Beat , and connects the points in between with rhythms from other Caribbean countries like Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia and other places in the United States, such as New Orleans and the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. He sees Carib as a contemporary pan-African project consisting of original modern jazz compositions.
While Sánchez was working on Carib , the musician suffered a personal tragedy: both his wife and father Dimas fell ill around the same time; his wife died in August 2017, and his father died in July 2018. The effects of losing these two people affected the intake. “The project wouldn't have been the same if we hadn't gone through that,” said Sánchez. “But even as you struggle through some of the challenges and changes in life, music is always your refuge. I am still in the process of losing my father and wife. We carry this grief into our last days. The grief just changes. But I feel in a really good place. I have people and family who are still here and love me. So I bet more on that than on loss. "
Two tracks from the album, Canto and Fernando's Theme , were used in the soundtrack for the feature film Windows on the World by Robert Mailer Anderson .
Track list
- Morning crap
- Wave under silk
- Madriga
- Fernando's theme
- Mirage
- Prelude to Canto
- Canto
- The Land of Hills
- Iwa (contemplation)
- Iwa (Spirit Going Back Home)
- A thousand yesterdays
reception
The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album in 2019 ; this is Sánchez's fifth Grammy nomination since 1997.
According to Mike Hobart ( Financial Times ), Sanchez blends mainstream modernism with the vibrant rhythms of Haiti and his native Puerto Rico. It is the ubiquitous cushion of sagging and flowing drums that make the album stand out.
Olaf Maikopf said in Jazz thing that Sánchez was investigating in the present production "in a jazzy context the relationship between West African drum rhythms and the traditional melodies of Haiti and his homeland Puerto Rico." In this sound history, the colors and textures of the Caribbean, the African rhythms and the soul of jazz, for Sánchez lies the key component with which the cultures of America are linked. His music flows together as a kind of world fusion, in which his tenor saxophone in interaction with the electric guitar and the electric piano reminds of a combination of Weather Report and the early Return to Forever . According to the author, however, Sánchez's compositions have their own signature, more diverse in moods and melodies.
Friedrich Kunzmann gave the album in All About Jazz only 3½ (out of 5) stars and said that the two different musical approaches (Puerto Rico and Haiti) are assigned to two different musical subgroups: The rhythmic group, mainly from Obed Calvaire and Jhan Lee Aponte on drums / percussion and Bomba Barril and Martin Schwartz on Haitian drums; and then the melodic / harmonic level, in which the band leader himself is supported by Lage Lund on guitar and Luis Perdomo on piano and Fender Rhodes; Bassist Ricky Rodgriguez build a bridge between the two divisions. Part of the melodic language also channels a Caribbean taste, but the bop tradition is by far the most prominent point that Lund and Sanchez have in common and where they cultivated together. Opener “Morning Mist”, Sanchez takes a good portion of the intensely rhythmic jam for a well constructed solo, to which the final crescendo reminds of the serenity and language of his colleague Joshua Redman .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b David Sánchez Connects the Dots on New Disc, 'Carib'. Down Beat, July 17, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ David Sánchez at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2019): Nominations: Best Latin Jazz Album Carib
- ^ Mike Hobart: David Sánchez: Carib - a blend of the rhythms of Haiti and Puerto Rico. Financial Times, June 7, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Olaf Maikopf: David Sánchez: Caribe. Jazz thing, September 1, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
- ^ Friedrich Kunzmann: David Sanchez: Carib. All About Jazz, July 29, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .