Alfredo Remus - 1968 - Trauma

Alfredo Remus

1968

Trauma

01. So What

02. Las Hojas Muertas

03. Manteca

04. Milestones

05. For Carl

06. Trauma

Double Bass – Alfredo Remus

Drums – Osvaldo López

Tenor Saxophone – Jorge Anders

Guests:

Percussion – Cacho Gómez

Percussion – Domingo Cura

Dedicated to Lalo Schifrin

Trauma is a 1968 recording by the great Argentine musician who, twelve months later, the famous Down Beat magazine would describe as "bass player of the year." This, their first album, starts with nothing more and nothing less than a free version of the superclassic “So what”, followed a little later by “Milestones”, as if to make it clear what was one of the decisive influences in those years for the Creole jazzers and how far the shadow of Miles Davis reached. There are also versions of more standard classics: “Autumn Leaves” and “Greensleves”. The arrangement and interpretation of the Latin “Manteca” is also very attractive.

Jorge Anders' saxophone and Osvaldo López's drums complete 3 and stand out together with the thick, heavy bass that Alfredo Remus leads firmly at his side. The album is dedicated to Lalo Schiffrin and the percussion of Domingo Cura also appears there. A beautiful period document, which, perhaps, can be criticized, and this would be its weakest point, a certain acceleration, as if anxiety reigned among the people of the River Plate to show that one knows (something that is also observed in the closing of few and complacent seconds dedicated to “Greensleves”).