‘Like Someone In Love’, de Art Blakey

Do álbum ‘Art Blakey – A Night in Tunisia / Like Someone in Love’ [1960], o tema ‘Like Someone In Love’, gravado nos Estúdios de Rudy Van Gelder em 14 Agosto 1960.

Lee Morgan, Trompete | Wayne Shorter, Sax Tenor | Bobby Timmons, Piano
Jymie Merritt, Contrabaixo | Art Blakey, Bateria

Sonatas do Rosário de Biber, por Lina Tur Bonet

Em 1676, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber [1644-1704] escreveu sobre a sua “fé em instrumentos de cordas”, expressão que adquiriu maior evidência nas Sonatas do Mistério ou do Rosário.

Sonata X – Crucificação
MUSIca ALcheMIca – Lina Tur Bonet, Enrike Solinís, Patxi Montero, Daniel Oyarzábal

‘Sueña La Alhambra’ – Enrique Morente, Pat Metheny, Juan Habichuela

Em Morente ‎– Sueña La Alhambra [2005], Enrique Morente, um dos grandes de Espanha, canta ‘Donde Habite El Olvido’ do poeta Luís Cernuda, acompanhado pela filha Estrella Morente e pela guitarra de Pat Metheny, que hoje completa 65 anos.
É um tema maravilhoso!


Juan Habichuela [Granada, 12 Agosto 1933 – Madrid, 30 Junho 2016], oriundo de uma família de notáveis guitarristas de flamenco, participa no tema ‘Taranto Veneno’.

‘Nouas terras, nouos mares, e o que mays he: nouo ceo nouas estrellas’

«Os portugueses ousaram cometer o grande mar oceano, descobriram novas ilhas, novas terras, novos mares, novos povos, e o que mais é: novo céu, novas estrelas.»

Pedro Nunes [Alcácer do Sal, 1502 — Coimbra, 11 de Agosto de 1578]

‘Four for Trane’, de Archie Shepp

O primeiro trabalho em nome próprio de Archie Shepp “Four for Trane”, foi gravado em 10 Agosto 1964 (Impulse). Dos cinco temas que compõem o álbum, apenas “Rufus” tem a autoria de Shepp, tendo os restantes quatro sido compostos por John Coltrane.

Alan Shorter – flugelhorn | John Tchicai – alto saxophone | Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone
Roswell Rudd – trombone, arranger | Reggie Workman – double bass | Charles Moffett – drums

‘Praia de Trouville’, de Eugène Boudin

Eugène Boudin [12 Julho 1824 – 8 Agosto 1898], que exerceu influência sobre Claude Monet [1840-1926], trabalhou também o plein air sob influência do mestre do Impressionismo, como neste ‘Praia de Trouville’, pintado na Costa da Normandia.

Eugène Boudin – Beach at Trouville, 1893
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

In Memoriam – Nicholas Ray [7 Agosto 1911 – 16 Junho 1979]

Homenagem a Nicholas Ray [7 Agosto 1911 – 16 Junho 1979]
Martin Scorsese apresenta uma introdução ao western ‘Johnny Guitar’, de 1954.


ECOS, DESCENDÊNCIAS E PROLONGAMENTOS
Os filmes de Nicholas Ray despertaram paixões e ele próprio, a sua figura, pelo seu percurso, pelo seu carisma, despertou paixões. Muitos cineastas (europeus, sobretudo) o citaram expressamente. Houve mesmo quem fosse ao encontro dele, caso do consagrado Wim Wenders, que o filmou por duas vezes. E em vários, de Jarmusch a Godard, de Fassbinder a Almodóvar, a influência de Ray fez-se sentir de variadas maneiras, mais declarada ou mais sub-repticiamente, enquanto homenagem directa ou enquanto inspiração longínqua.
in Retrospectiva 2011 na Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema.


In Memoriam Charlie Haden [6 Ago 1937 – 11 Jul 2014]

“Every Day (I Thank You)”
Pat Metheny, guitar | Charlie Haden, bass | Jack DeJohnette drums
Dewey Redman tenor saxophone | Michael Brecker tenor saxophone
From Pat Metheny 80/81 | recorded May 1980, Oslo | 2004 ECM :rarum IX

Somewhere around in here it occurred to me that I had made four or five records and was so concerned with developing a band and a way of thinking and playing that was attempting to offer alternative views to the implications of the larger jazz tradition that I had somewhat neglected to address in a recording environment the music that I had played the most and longest in its more conventional setting.

I had always loved the playing of both Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman and had gotten to know both of them from the days when I was playing with Gary Burton and they were playing with Keith Jarrett and the two bands would occasionally do gigs together around the States. I had recently met and played with the amazingly gifted Mike Brecker who seemed to be an underutilized musical force at that time, and I had known Jack Dejohnette for a few years by then and had always hoped to do something with him.

Jack and Charlie had never played together before this session, nor had Dewey and Mike, but part of the idea was to set up these new connections between people who were real favorites to me and to see if what I thought could happen between all of us might work.

This piece “Everyday (I Thank You)” was written for this session in a hotel room in Bremen, Germany late one night after a gig. Mike Brecker has often talked about how he felt this record was a turning point for him, that he discovered something on this date about the way he played that affected things that he did later. To me, this is one of his finest recordings and the way he played this piece was really special and beyond anything I had hoped for. Charlie and Jack proved to be a magic combination, later utilized as a rhythm section by lots of people. And this record began a recording association and a deepened friendship between Charlie and I that has proven to be one of the most important relationships in my life. And one the best parts of this date was how much fun we all had making it – it was probably the most pleasant experience of all of the recording sessions I had during the ECM days.
Pat Metheny’s notes for the 2004 ECM :rarum IX

‘Stompin’ At The Savoy’, de Clifford Brown/Max Roach

Do álbum Clifford Brown/Max Roach – Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954), gravado nos Capitol Studios em Los Angeles entre os dias 2 e 10 Agosto 1954, o tema Stompin’ At The Savoy, geralmente atribuído a Benny Goodman mas que na realidade foi escrito pelo compositor e saxofonista Edgar Sampson [1907-1973].

George Morrow (b); Max Roach (dr); Richie Powell (p); Harold Land (ts); Clifford Brown (t)

‘Silhouettes’, de Klaus Schulze

Foi no centro da explosão da electrónica Krautrock, onde pontificavam nomes como Kraftwerk, Neu! e Can, que surgiu a banda Tangerine Dream, em 1967.
Entre 1969 e 1970, Klaus Schulze, que neste dia 4 Agosto 2019 completa 72 anos, fez parte da formação liderada por Edgar Froese.
Em 1971, com o guitarrista Manuel Göttsching, formou a banda Ash Ra Tempel, colaborou ao longo da década de setenta com os grupo The Cosmic Jokers e Go.
Da carreira a solo de Schulze, que conta com mais de seis dezenas de trabalhos, o álbum “Silhouettes” (2018) tem um tema de que gosto particularmente, o segundo movimento Der lange Blick zurück.