Natalio Sued | Jazzqued

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Jardin de Estrellas is one of the fresh releases of ears & eyes Records this year, but the album itself was recorded eleven years ago in Lisbon. It is a mystery to me why this record lay motionless for so long, but the fact that it was released is nice - the music is worth it. It was written by the Argentine tenor saxophonist Natalio Sued, who lives in the Netherlands, but she found true life with the active participation of his fellow Argentinean compatriots who also live in Europe, only in Portugal, bassist Demian Cabo and Portuguese drummer Luis Candeyas, once a fellow practitioner. Natalio is at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and a friend of Demian's already from Portuguese meetings.

It is curious that the musicians have never played together before. Their trio looks rather unusual: tenor saxophone and rhythm band, no piano or guitar. This combination threatens certain difficulties for the spirit leader, but also provides more freedom. I must say that Natalio Soued and his colleagues used this freedom skillfully. As the author of the liner notes of the album Guillermo Bazzola writes, "... I have always been amazed at Natalio's ability to express deep and complex musical ideas in a very clear and simple way."

Already in the opening composition Angeles, built on the harmonious progression of Duke Ellington's Angelica, Suad uses the call-response technique, well known in gospel music, where the role of the chorus of believers is assigned to a rhythm group. Another appeal to the shadows of the greats is associated with the play Zamba Satie, in which the name already connects traditional Argentinean zamba music with the name of the famous French impressionist composer Eric Satie. I must say that in no way Cabo and Candeias are not limited to purely rhythmic tasks. Both of them solo a lot, and their role in the trio is no less important than Sued himself. And one of the compositions on the album, Átomos y Moléculas, is generally the fruit of collective improvisation in the spirit of free jazz. The whole Jardin de Estrellas is, rather, an example of modern jazz, although it is associated in many respects with the ideas of the avant-garde - just as productive a combination as the Argentino-Portuguese trio itself.

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10 tks / 61 mins

(Natalio Sued - ts; Demian Cabaud - b; Luis Candeias - dr;)

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