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Try Silence
Try Silence
Date Posted: November 02 2011
Written By: Chicago Jazz
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Kelly Brand – Piano, compositions, arrangements
Geof Bradfield – Saxophone, flute
Art Davis – Trumpet, flugelhorn
Kelly Sill – Bass
Jon Deitemyer – Drums, percussion
(Mari Anne Jayme – Vocals)
(Naomi Sill – Cello)
0:04 It begins with a vamp.
0:11 I like the piano part because it’s not the same riff over and over again, but improvised.
0:23 The melody comes in after beat 1, which means that the phrasing is a rest around the first beat of each 11/4 bar.
0:27 The harmony comes in the middle of a line.
0:30 And chord stays the same, except for the last two beats in each bar.
0:32 The bridge starts with a melody note that hasn’t been used yet.
0:34 The bridge melody does come in on one.
0:43 Ah, and two beats of rest––silence actually.
(That’s how the song got its name––not knowing what she wanted the rhythm section to do at that moment, Kelly wrote “try silence” over the bar.)
0:47 Back to the first theme.
1:07 Sparser and sparser.
1:12 Now down to almost nothing.
1:19 A written slowdown, and then we’re left hanging.
1:22 One pick-up note from Jon, and the blowing starts.
1:26 Art starts with a simple theme.
1:33 And he keeps developing.
1:44 Nice phrasing––and now begins a triplet phrase.
1:56 Like a bumblebee.
2:08 And a hemiola followed by a flurry.
2:29 That’s almost his opening theme again.
2:34 And he ends with a hemiola.
2:39 And it’s picked up by Geof.
2:43 And continued.
2:46 And now he’s out of the key.
2:58 Still out, and now he twists it back in.
3:05 Now he starts a diatonic theme.
3:10 Minor to major, minor to major.
3:12 And again.
3:16 And more.
3:25 Double-time development.
3:30 And another hemiola.
3:38 He sets it down nicely.
3:40 Piano begins soloing.
3:47 Development of four- or five-note themes.
3:58 Sitting nicely in the 11/4.
4:02 She plays a hemiola.
4:10 Still sitting nicely in the 11/4.
4:25 Continuing good development.
4:34 Starting to comp.
4:40 Still comping into the bridge for the out-head.
4:51 And there’s the silence.
4:59 The song phrases very nicely in 11/4––in 12/4, the melody would have sat awkwardly.
5:07 There is the harmony sneaking in again.
5:14 It begins to wind down.
5:22 And the retard––to the final note.
5:33 Nice cut!
I’m married to Kelly Brand, and I’m also on this cut, but I decided to review it anyway.
Note: a hemiola is an evenly grouped repeated figure, in time, which does not line up with the pulse beats of the song.
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