Music Review // Patrick Smith "Endless Construction"

 

Patrick Smith has brought together a group of musicians to create an instrumental song which can feel like it is singing louder than some songs with lyrics.   The saxophone itself can feel like it is singing at times, as this one picks up after the first few moments and those heavenly sounding organs also come in.  This starts slow and smooth but wastes no time in delivering the goods.  

The piano takes a solo with the percussion and that makes it begin to feel more like a jazz piano than those organ keys from the beginning.  The sax returns and just feels like it's crooning as it's setting the pace for the entire song.   Depending upon your mood it could be a love song or a sci-fi epic, but it definitely is the type of sound where you can close your eyes and see something happening.

With a brief drum solo everything picks up at the end and comes together nicely where it goes out not with a whimper but with a bang.  In a lot of ways this song does feel like the marathon runner who hits the finish line with that last sprint, that last burst of energy, and it really just feels like it leaves the entire song ending on a high note.

This music video was recorded live and I don't feel like jazz was meant to be recorded any other way.   I realize artists do it and it's good, but even if you can't go into a club somewhere and hear the music live yourself, just to have a video like this- or the audio from it- so you can just feel it in one take, in that singular moment, as opposed to something more rehearsed within a studio.  Yeah, this is how jazz was meant to be.