# CD review: Randy Brecker & Ada Rovatti – Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond 2019: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/11/25/cd-review-randy-brecker-ada-rovatti-brecker-plays-rovatti-sacred-bond-2019-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-11-25T19:22:38+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

_**Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond**_, **features the husband and wife team of
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and fusion pioneer Randy Brecker and saxophonist-
composer Ada Rovatti but also includes their 10-year-old daughter Stella in a vocal
cameo appearance on one track. **

Backed by a versatile core group of pianist David Kikoski, bassist Alex Claffy and
drummer Rodney Holmes, with guest appearances by keyboardist Jim Beard, guitarist
Adam Rogers and Brazilian percussionist Café, the married couple forges an easy 
chemistry together on the 10 tracks here, all composed by Rovatti. The collection
kicks off with the upbeat “Sacred Bond,” which has mother and daughter doubling 
wordless vocals on the melodic head alongside trumpet and tenor sax, Kikoski’s electric
piano comping, Claffy’s funky baselines and Holmes’ insistent backbeat. Rovatti 
solos first, demonstrating her deeply impactful tone, easy rhythmic assuredness 
and remarkable facility as she builds to double-timed flurries and a magnificent
crescendo. Brecker follows with a typically bright, bristling and eminently melodic
trumpet solo – the kind he has been documenting on record for 50 years, beginning
with his own debut as a leader, 1969’s Score – before mother and daughter return
to sing the melodious refrain together.

**Tracks**

1. Sacred Bond (7:20)
 2. Helping Hands (8:39) 3. Reverence (8:36) 4. The Baggae(
10:32) 5. The Queen of Bibelot (5:20) 6. Britches Blue (8:31) 7. Brainwashed (5:
25) 8. Mirror (5:42) 9. The Other Side of the Coin (7:04) 10. Quietly Me (6:47)

**Ada Rovatti – Sax Soprano, Sax Tenor, Vocals**
 **Randy Brecker – Flugelhorn, 
Trumpet** **Dave Kikoski – Fender Rhodes, Piano** **Jim Beard – Keyboards, Organ
Hammond** **Adam Rogers – Guitar** **Stella Brecker – Vocals** **Alexander Claffy–
Bass Acoustic, Bass Electric** **Rodney Holmes – Drums** **Cafe Da Silva – Percussion**

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