12 April 2008
Antonio Sanchez
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Antonio Sanchez is on many notable albums, but Migration is his debut as leader. The phenomenal drummer from Mexico City is ‘quiet-spoken, yet intense’; he often plays that way, too. All four of his limbs - and their independence/inter-dependence - beggar belief. But Sanchez always serves the music, never batters it. The most in-demand drummer in New York is wide-open, surprising, yet superbly controlled. Migration’s core band is a piano-less quartet, with two saxes. It also has a ‘piano trio’ number, especially penned by its pianist - Chick Corea. The other guest also provides a new original; he - Pat Metheny - is the guitarist on an incredible duo treatment of the CD’s one old (Miles Davis) tune.
Antonio Sanchez site:
www.antoniosanchez.net
To really get a sense of how Sanchez approaches the drums, click the ‘Modern Drummer’ article link, here:
www.antoniosanchez.net/press.html
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Details of each track are presented in the following order:
BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
( distributor/ source details, in brackets like this, in lower-case)
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
Description of track, in lower-case.
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs
’THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SAT 12.4 08
2205
THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’ Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’ Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )
CD CUT 1, ’ JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’ SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’ s kora, Danny Thompson’ s beautiful double bass and Ketama’ s flamenco guitars )
2208
CD CUT 1, ’ONE FOR ANTONIO’
CHICK COREA
CRYSTAL SILENCE MUSIC, ADMIN BY HENDON MUSIC - A BOOSEY AND HAWKES COMPANY (BMI)
CAMJAZZ CAM 5026
(In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.camjazz.com )
ANTONIO SANCHEZ - ’MIGRATION’
9: 01
( Chick’s piano, Scott Colley’s ac bass and Antonio’s drums on a lively-Latin jazz piece. The drumming is mind-boggling. Hats off to sound engineer Joe Ferla: rarely - if ever - has a drum-kit been better ’captured’ than on this CD )
SEGUE
2217
CD CUT 6, ’ IS THIS AMERICA?’ ( KATRINA 2005 )
PAT METHENY
PAT-METH MUSIC CORP (BMI)
NONESUCH 7559-79956-1
(in Australia, through Warner Music: www.warnermusic.com.au
worldwide: www.nonesuch.com )
PAT METHENY WITH CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE AND ANTONIO SANCHEZ - ’ DAY TRIP’
4: 28
( pensive and poignant. Metheny’ s nylon-stringed ac guitar , Sanchez’ s subtle brushes and cymbals, McBride’ s plucked and bowed ac bass, including a beautiful, melodic, arco solo. Metheny regards the USA as ’ still very much a work in progress. ’ He was horrified and ashamed by the national government’s ’unbelievable irresponsibility and neglect’ when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans )
2223
CD CUT 6, ’GREEDY SILENCE’
ANTONIO SANCHEZ
C.A.M. S. r.l.
CAMJAZZ CAM 5026
(In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.camjazz.com )
ANTONIO SANCHEZ - ’MIGRATION’
10: 51
(powerful, robust, no-keyboard, modern jazz quartet. This has space as well as tremendous oomph - the leader’s drumming simply defies belief. Chris Potter and David Sanchez are the entwining tenor saxophonists; each also takes a solo - Potter, first. Scott Colley is the strong ac bassist )
SEGUE
2234
CD CUT 8, ’THE PAVILION OF CRYSTALLIZED ALLURE’
THE MUSIC IS COMPOSED BY HUONGH THANH, MIEKO MIYAZAKI AND NGUYÊN LÊ. THE TEXT COMES FROM VERSE 1033 OF ’KIM VAN KIEU’ WRITTEN IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY BY NGUYÊN DU
PRESUMABLY, THE TEXT IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. MUSIC PUB IS NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9451-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
HUONGH THANH AND NGUYÊN LÊ - ’FRAGILE BEAUTY’
4: 51
(Vietnamese. A yearning, spacious, dramatic, new setting of part of ’the Vietnamese national poem.’ Translated, some of its words say ’Distant mountains, the moon so close were her day and night companions’. Huong Thanh’s female voice, Nguyên Lê’s elec guitar and guitar-synth, and Mieko Miyazaki’s koto. The Japanese plucked, long-board zither is a cousin to the Vietnamese dàn tranh; elsewhere on this CD koto and danh tranh can be heard, together}
ABC RADIO NATIONAL HUONGH THANH AND NGUYÊN LÊ ALERT
We explore this album, next Saturday, April 19th
More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )
2241
CD CUT 2, ’TEMPLE’
CAMERON UNDY
C 1996 DANCING LAUGHING RECORDS
DANCING LAUGHING DLR 001
( if this is available, still:
Through Birdland www.birdland.com.au )
CAMERON UNDY WITH MIKE NOCK - ’TEMPLE’
9: 40
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: plucked double bass and piano duo - respectively, Cameron and Mike)
SEGUE
2251
CD CUT 2, ’DEEPWATER’
WORDS BY TANYA SPARKE, MUSIC BY HER AND LLOYD SWANTON
COPYRIGHT CONTROL
TSDR001
( www.myspace.com/tanyasparke )
TANYA SPARKE - ’DARKWOOD ROAD’
3: 29
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Tanya’s voice in duet with Lloyd Swanton’s double bass - beautiful, sensuous and adult - not twee ’girly-girly’.
TANYA SPARKE GIG ALERT ( Sydney )
Wednesday April 16
8pm.@ The Sound Lounge
Seymour Centre, cnr City Rd and Cleveland St.
Bookings/details:
www.seymour.usyd.edu.au/boxoffice/soundlounge_program.shtml
or tel 02 93517940
Tanya will sing, with Peter Dasent - piano, Lloyd Swanton - bass, Andrew Robson - saxophone, Bruce Reid - guitars and Toby Hall - drums )
2256
CD CUT 5, ’QUE RESTE-T-IL DO NOS AMOURS?’
CHARLES TRÉNET
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
2: 30 (excerpt)
( wistful-romantic, instrumental treatment of a ditto French song. Fresu’s flugelhorn {the trumpet’s more-buttery sibling}, Galliano’s accordion, Lundgren’s piano. The title translates as ’what remains of our love?’)
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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 8, ’SOLAR’
MILES DAVIS
PRESTIGE MUSIC CO
CAMJAZZ CAM 5026
(In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.camjazz.com )
ANTONIO SANCHEZ - ’MIGRATION’
4: 36
( post-boppish duet for the leader’s drums and Pat Metheny’s elec guitar. As it proceeds, this becomes more and more amazing )
2311
CD CUT 3, ’ANOTHER LIFE’
PAT METHENY
PAT METH MUSIC CORP
WARNER BROS 9362480252
PAT METHENY GROUP - ’WHEREVER YOU GO’
7: 06
(sweetly-voiced, reverent male choral vocals introduce a lyrical, bittersweet melodious piece. Voices occasionally recur, but the focus moves more to the leader’s nylon-string guitar and it moves up to mid-tempo - with ac bass, piano, discreet percussion, electronics. Antonio Sanchez is the drummer )
SEGUE
2318
CD CUT 2, ’DID YOU GET IT?’
ANTONIO SANCHEZ
C.A.M. S. r.l.
CAMJAZZ CAM 5026
(In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.camjazz.com )
ANTONIO SANCHEZ - ’MIGRATION’
7: 21
(Limber, post-boppish { Charlie Parker-referencing, I think } no-keyboard modern jazz quartet. The leader’s drums, with Chris Potter and David Sanchez’s tenor saxes {Potter is first soloist} , Scott Colley’s ac bass )
2329
CD CUT 3, ’ARENA’ ( SAND )
PAT METHENY
PAT METH MUSIC CORPORATION
CAMJAZZ CAM 5026
(In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.camjazz.com )
ANTONIO SANCHEZ - ’MIGRATION’
9: 27
( has more than one mood and tempo, but essentially lyrical-melodious, bittersweet, with a Latin accent. Features its composer’s electric guitar. Sanchez’s quartet-proper: himself on drums, with Chris Potter and David Sanchez’s tenor saxes {Potter is first soloist} and Scott Colley’s ac bass )
2340
CD CUT 3, ’MOTHER’
MUSIC BY MARCEL KHALIFE, WORDS BY MAHMOUD DARWISH
PUB NOT SPEC
NAGAM RECORDS NR 1010 CD
( no Australian distributor, but readily available direct
Worldwide: www.marcelkhalife.com/httpdocs/htmls/mkdisco.html )
MARCEL KHALIFÉ - ’PROMISES OF THE STORM’
9: 37
( Yearning-mellifluous vocal from the Lebanese singer-composer, who is also the lutenist, playing oud. The small ensemble includes a mandolin/banjo hybrid. Everything on this re-mastered CD re-issue of a 1976 album is a setting of a poem by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. He and Marcel are long-time friends and mutual admirers. This poem’s opening line translates as ,’I yearn for my mother’s bread.’ Part of its last verse says this:
’Put me, if I return,
As firewood in your stove,
As a clothesline on your rooftop,
For I have lost resolve
Without your daily prayer.
I have grown decrepit’.
MARCEL KHALIFE CONCERTS ALERT ( Sydney, Melbourne)
Thursday, April 24 @ 8pm: Sydney Opera House
Full details here: www.sydneyoperahouse.com/Whatson/MarcelKhalife.aspx
Sunday April 27 @ 7.30 pm, Melbourne
Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre. 100 St Kilda Road
Full details here: www.theartscentre.com.au/what’s-on/event.aspx?id=1066
Marcel Khalife: Composer, oud and vocals
Peter Herbert: Double Bass
Rami Khalife: Piano
Bachar Khalife: Percussion
www.marcelkhalife.com
Discover more about Mahmoud Darwish here:
www.mahmouddarwish.com )
SEGUE
2350
CD CUT 5, ’BALLADE’
ANTONIO SANCHEZ
C.A.M. S. r.l.
CAMJAZZ CAM 5026
(In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
worldwide: www.camjazz.com )
ANTONIO SANCHEZ - ’MIGRATION’
6: 24
( spare, spacious, intimate jazz ballad, which becomes more edgy/intense in its latter part. The leader-composer’s brushes, mallets and cymbals, Scott Colley’s ac bass and Chris Potter’s soprano saxophone )
2358
CD CUT 2, ’PART TWO’
MARCEL KHALIFÉ
CONNECTING CULTURES RECORDS AND PUBLISHING
NAGAM RECORDS/ CONNECTING CULTURES RECORDS CC 50034
( no Australian distributor
Available direct from www.choicemusic.nl
Or via Marcel’s site: www.marcelkhalife.com )
MARCEL KHALIFE - ’TAQASIM’
1: 15 (excerpt)
(The bright conclusion to the mid-section of an impressionistic suite which is primarily ’Arabic’, but has western elements. The Lebanese leader-composer’s oud, Peter Herbert’s plucked and bowed bass, with percussionist Bachar Khalifé - Marcel’s son. They’re the only players, but do overdub more than one of themselves. Beautiful interplay between Marcel and Peter. Superbly recorded, too.
MARCEL KHALIFE CONCERTS ALERT ( Sydney, Melbourne)
Thursday, April 24 @ 8pm: Sydney Opera House
Full details here: www.sydneyoperahouse.com/Whatson/MarcelKhalife.aspx
Sunday April 27 @ 7.30 pm, Melbourne
Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre. 100 St Kilda Road
Full details here: www.theartscentre.com.au/what’s-on/event.aspx?id=1066
Marcel Khalife: Composer, oud and vocals
Peter Herbert: Double Bass
Rami Khalife: Piano
Bachar Khalife: Percussion )
Presenter
Doug Spencer
Producer
Doug Spencer
