2000 #6 David Sanchez ~ Melaza

Do tell dad, what, what sets this clip out to you amongst all the other great ones?

Well, one of the first things, and I wrote this down, it sounded almost playful, but given the title of this track, As Everything but playful.

Because this is a statement about slavery.

Slaves work in the cane fields without a choice.

With basically a master over them and demanding hard labor.

uh to uh to render the the pain uh syrup into melaza or um yeah molasses yep molasses

yeah

so i like i like the interaction of the bass you can hear the piano and how they're working together there was also uh but would it be a bell? I'm not sure it was a sound more like, yeah, yeah.

And of course then the sax coming in is powerful, powerful.

So that's the reason I chose this track.

It's an interesting term that you chose, playful, because I got that throughout the whole album.

I got playful throughout the whole album.

I think the playfulness between David Sanchez and Miguel Zenon, one on David on tenor and Miguel on alto, they play a lot.

And it seems like they're feeding off of each other, which in ratings goes back to the awareness.

Are we playing together? Yes.

I felt in that particular song, and I was trying to whittle down which section would be the best to play.

So when you guys both said it was your choice, I thought, my goodness, I spent 30 minutes listening to this song alone.

I could get a heaviness in it.

So I didn't feel the playfulness.

What I picked up on was a little bit more of the finding my voice part.

after all is said and done, it seems like the bass comes in solely.

That's it.

It does its thing, and then they jump in again.

And they banter back and forth as they build to their voice, and then there's a quietness.

And so I think that they are playing together, but I, again, at 450, they do it again where they play it up, and then they go to a quiet bass.