A remark you made
(Zawinul)
One of the most beautiful ballads zawinul has ever
penned. In a 1988 interview, woodard commented
to zawinul that "in a tune Like 'a remark you made,'
the very tone of the bass makes the melody sing."
"i'm a composer who works with sound," replied
Zawinul. "if you drop a dime, i can write a song
based on the tone. When i heard jaco's tone, i
immediately began to write a song, Based on him
and the saxophone and my little jive. That's where
i'm coming from. I dial myself up a sound on my
synthesizer and Turn on my tape recorder and that's
for sure a song. I live from sound, and he had a
sound for all time. Nobody had a better, Cleaner
sound." Zawinul explained to milkowski, "that boy
had a sound that was so easy to write for, especially
ballads. There were many strengths that alphonso
brought to the band, but tone-wise he was in
another category. What i wrote for jaco, i Could
never have written for alphonso." Jaco's own
comments about his sound can be found in the
description of "cannon ball" on the black market
page.
In his zawinul interview, sy johnson told zawinul the
tune reminded him of "one of those ballad features
for the tenor player that Every big band had in the
book."
"the first day i got the oberheim, i sat down to try it,"
zawinul responded. "it had a string setup on it. I just
played it. Every note Wayne played was there. I
wrote it down and we did it in one or two takes. All i
did was overdub a little harmony. It was all there in
One time through from the music. People love it
when we play it in person."
That little harmonic and melodic turn in there
sounds like the kind of thing guys used to know how
to do that everybody today seems To have
forgotten.
"ain't it the truth. It's what we were working for on
this record. I was taking it home every night to
check it out with earphones. See What you do next.
How to make it better. It really sounds clean. When
you hear with earphones, it's such a fine recording
job we did."
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