Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade have been three quarters of the extraordinary Wayne Shorter Quartet for more than a decade. Since, they’ve also continued their individual careers as leaders of their own projects and groups. Now, on Children of the Light, they step forward as a trio for the first time with an imagination and fearlessness in their approach that defies the roles and ways of a trio in both obvious and subtle ways. Some of this music was previewed during the London visit of sax giant Wayne Shorter’s regular partners Danilo Pérez (piano), John Patitucci (bass) and Brian Blade (drums) as a trio last year, and the album likewise emphasises the immense jazz experience and the effortless hipness with which they deploy it all. Inspired by the Lionel Messi-like ease with which Shorter can switch direction, the band do a lot of that without him – as in the title track, with its skippy theme, prodding Latin countermelody and loosely collective free-swing; or in the rhythm-games and contrapuntalisms of Sunburn and Mosquito and the closing number, African Wave. The stealthy, spacey Moonlight in Congo Square is like a very slow Thelonious Monk, Lumen is a Latin-funky Fender Rhodes groover, and the gospel-inflected Within Everything could be a Tord Gustavsen meditation. It’s very classy contemporary jazz from a trio who have learned to listen to each other in the most exacting context, though their relish for tricksy musical puzzles still occasionally gets in the way.
Thanks Magal
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