Double Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Double Rainbow:
The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim
Studio album by Joe Henderson

Publication
(s)

1995

Label (s) Verve Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

12

running time

62:41

occupation

production

Oscar Castro-Neves , Richard Seidel

Studio (s)

Clinton Recording Studios, New York City (1–5), Oceanway Recording, Los Angeles (6–12)

chronology
So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)
(1993)
Double Rainbow:
The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim
Joe Henderson Big Band
(1996)

Double Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim is a jazz album by Joe Henderson , recorded in two sessions with different line-ups on September 19 and 20, 1994 in Los Angeles and on November 5 and 6, 1994 in New York City. The recordings were released in 1995 on the Verve Records label.

The music of the album

After Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1991) and So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles) (1992), Double Rainbow was Joe Henderson's third album for Verve Records. Like the previous albums, these sessions were designed to be released as a tribute album. Henderson recorded twelve compositions by Antônio Carlos Jobim with two different bands, one from the US (in Los Angeles) and one from Brazil (in New York) . Henderson met the composer in 1993 at two concerts in his honor in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ; In April 1994 the two musicians met again in New York at a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of Verve Records. It was originally planned to hold one of the two sessions together with the composer in Rio, but this could no longer be realized because Jobim became seriously ill; he finally died on December 8, 1994.

Henderson had already recorded a heavily bossa nova- influenced title on his Blue Note debut album Page One (1963), Recorda Me . The recordings were made with two different line-ups; with a Brazilian quartet, consisting of the pianist Eliane Elias , the bassist Nico Assumpção and the drummer Paulo Braga as well as the guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves , who also acted as co-producer, as well as an American jazz trio made up of the pianist Herbie Hancock , the bassist Christian McBride and the drummer Jack DeJohnette .

The tracks are arranged on the album in the form of two suites - Suite 1 - Joe / Braz / Jobim and Suite 2 - Joe / Jazz / Jobim . The album begins with the title (A) Felicidade , which came from the film soundtrack by Orfeu Negro (director: Marcel Camus , 1959) and made Jobim famous worldwide. Dreamer (also Vivo Sonhando , 1963) was used for the Stan Getz album Getz / Gilberto (1964); Jobim recorded Boto (dt .: dolphin ) on his album Urubu in 1976. Ligia was also known in the USA for the Stan Getz / João Gilberto version from 1975 ( The Best of Two Worlds ). Once I Loved ( Amor em Paz ), which Henderson played here as a duo with Castro-Neves, Gilberto had recorded Jobims with an arrangement in 1961. It's also the only Jobim song Henderson had previously recorded ( The Kicker , 1967). Triste comes from Jobim's Wave album (1974); Photograph and Portrait in Black and White from his album A Certain Mr Jobim from 1965. Happy Madness had recorded Jobim in 1971 together with Frank Sinatra ; Pasarim is a composition by Jobim from 1987. Joe Henderson played the last track on the album as a soloist; it was first recorded in Brazil in 1958 by Elizete Cardoso with an arrangement by Jobim.

Performances of album music

On June 23, 1995, Henderson performed the Jobim compositions, accompanied by the Brazilian musicians, at the New York JVC Jazz Festival. He did not follow the opulent melodies from Jobim's songbook, but transferred them into a modern context: "Henderson is an increasingly introverted musician who deliberately softens phrases and reduces harmonies [...]." He provided the titles in the quintet around Castro-Neves also to the European audience (in July 1995 at the North Sea Jazz Festival and at the Montreux Jazz Festival ).

review

Scott Yanow gave the album 4½ (out of five) stars in Allmusic and commented on the recordings: “In general, instead of Jobim's successful title, Henderson preferred his forgotten compositions, and in some cases - as in the No More Blues played straight ahead - the results are surprising. ”Yanow describes Felicidade , Triste , Zingaro and the duet with guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves in Once I Loved as the highlights of the“ highly recommended ”album .

Richard Cook and Brian Morton rated the album with 3 (out of four) stars and described it as " lush, charming, [...] essential high-caliber light-jazz ". Although everyone played well and Henderson sounds extremely relaxed, you occasionally miss a really extraordinary solo or something that penetrates the general serenity of this music.

List of titles

  • Joe Henderson - Double Rainbow: Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (Verve 314 527 222-2)
  1. Felicidade - 4:44
  2. Dreamer ( Vivo Sonhando ) - 5:24
  3. Boto - 6:34
  4. Ligia - 4:31
  5. Once I Loved ( Amore Em Paz ) - 5:22
  6. Triste - 5:28
  7. Photographer - 5:01
  8. Portrait in Black and White ( Zingaro ) - 5:17
  9. No More Blues ( Chega De Saudade ) - 6:39
  10. Happy Madness - 3:12
  11. Passarim - 5:38
  12. Modinha - 4:33
  • All compositions are by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Web links

swell

  • Joe Henderson interviewed by Dick Conte - February 12, 1995 in San Francisco. Edited by Mitch Goldman at Knitting Factory Studios (Verve SACD 1027)

Remarks

  1. In an interview in 1995, Henderson stated that he had already written the song when he was fourteen, well before the bossa nova wave in the USA in the early 1960s.
  2. In the original: "Henderson has become an increaingly introverted player, understating phrases and reducing harmony to succession of discrete ports, at each of which he ruminates with supple - sometimes silken, sometimes wooly - arpeggios. No romantic, he probes Jobim's book for modern mutations rather than wallowing in its opulant melodies. Even the most popular melody of the set, Felicidade, proceeded from a jubilant exposition to a series of tangled arpeggios - from melody into pure abstraction " .
  3. In the original: “ In general, Henderson avoids Jobim's best-known songs in favor of some of his more obscure (but equally rewarding) melodies and in some cases (such as a very straight-ahead 'No More Blues') the treatments are surprising. Highlights of this very accessible yet unpredictable CD include 'Felicidade', 'Triste', 'Zingaro' and a duet with guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves on 'Once I Loved', although all of the performances are quite enjoyable. Highly recommended. "

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Joe Henderson Discography at jazzdiscography.org
  2. a b Review of Scott Yanow's Double Rainbow album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  3. All information about the pieces cf. Liner Notes.
  4. ^ Gary Giddins : Festival Blues (JVC 1995) . In: Weather Bird: Jazz on the Dawn of its Second Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, etc. 2004, ISBN 0195304497 , p. 117
  5. Cook & Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz, 6th Edition, 2003. P. 705