| Saudades | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Trio Beyond |
| Cover: | Trio Beyond - Saudades cover.jpg |
| Released: | June 6, 2006 |
| Recorded: | November 21, 2004 |
| Venue: | Queen Elizabeth Hall London, England |
| Label: | ECM |
| Chronology: | Jack DeJohnette |
| Prev Title: | The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Peace Time |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
Saudades (Portuguese: "The Blues") is a live double-album by Jack DeJohnette's Trio Beyond recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on November 21, 2004 and released on ECM June 2006, marking their debut recording. Saudade is a Portuguese word meaning sadness or longing for times past, or in a musical context, blues.
A JazzTimes reviewer selected it in 2012 as one of DeJohnette's key albums, and wrote that it "might be his most incendiary showcase of sheer drumming prowess."[1]
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars, stating, "Jack DeJohnette initiated a project to pay tribute to the late Tony Williams' Lifetime... The results on this double-disc album, Saudades, are explosive, dynamic, and utterly compelling... This is one of the finer moments in recent ECM history, and a fitting tribute to Williams and his contribution to a music that sharply divided "purists' (who still are a pain in the ass in trying to preserve jazz as a museum piece), and those more progressive thinking fans who were—and are still—looking for a music that could breathe, engage the culture, and continue to grow."[2]