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| Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke were as dynamic as ever, and Airto provided the world beat percussion.Was This Review Helpful?What Game Shall We Play Today
4.What a breath of fresh air this must have been to the moribund jazz scene of 1972.Joe Farrell, this quintet spun the elegiac webs of forward motion that lay at the core of RETURN TO FOREVER.The title track is absolutely amazing!The female vocal melodies along with the percussion,bass and electric piano melody is unearthly.One of Chick's best albums, light and airy, I especially liked the track " La Fiesta".This is a strong line up of journeymen (and a woman)jazz musicians that provided some very beautiful and sometimes hauntingly lyrical music.The Chick Corea compositions are strong.This is one of my most listened to jazz albums.This is Chick Coreas artpiece.PrintShare this page using one of the following services:Del.MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: "Transitional" may be a kind way to say it, A.HORWITZ: It's true and it's electric piano is not used in any way as a gimmick but really fits the musical mood of this CD.HORWITZ: In the early '70s, there was a lot going on in music.American percussionist Aerto Morera, and the Brazilian singer, Flora Purim.And from the United States, the saxophonist and flutist Joe Farell.What do people listen for here?The fact that in Chick Corea, there was a compositional sensibility that could pull all these things together, but always with a terrific rhythmic pulse.HORWITZ: For NPR Jazz, I'm Murray Horwitz.Related RSS FeedsMusicBasic Jazz Record LibraryA.Hours() * 3600 + newCurrentTime.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.Want it delivered Wednesday, March 19?Amazon MP3 Downloads store.Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Try our music sampler to hear song samples from this album."Embedding code will be displayed here."The soul of fusion lies not in the barrage of note clusters played through overdriven amplifiers but in the arresting beauty of Return to Forever's lucid vision of music without boundaries.Flora Purim's vocals and Airto Moreira's drums and percussion work discretely in service of the music's serenity.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?Corea, Farrell, and bassist Stanley Clarke all prove their mettle in long, lyrical passages in which they both play and respond to one another.For me, it's vastly superior to the fusion records Corea turned out later in the '70s.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."This is one of the best albums I've purchased in the last couple years.Underlying the shimmering tones and colors of the keyboards and soaring flights of the soprano saxophone and flute is the propulsive and virtuoso bass work of Stanley Clarke giving the perofrmances drive and conterpoint to the other instruments sometimes assuming the roll of lead improvisational instrument and enhancing the overall dynamics between the instruments; all of this moving along on a bed of joyous latin rythm.Simply gorgeous musicianship throughout.I'Ve ever heard from a truly jazz legend like Chick Corea.See all 26 customer reviews...Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.You have no recently viewed items or searches.After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.Minutes() * 60 + newCurrentTime.This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are.Available from these sellers.With a legacy of over 100 years of quality recordings, the Sony BMG Masterworks Store is the place to find the best in classical, Broadway, jazz, and movie soundtrack recordings.Visit our audio help page for more information.Buy the sheet music for Chick corea at Sheet Music Plus.Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
a9AdsViewNamespace.Corea, Farrell, and bassist Stanley Clarke all prove their mettle in long, lyrical passages in which they both play and respond to one another.Fine as well, although you might find Purim's vocals an acquired taste.Was this review helpful to you?"Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.For me, it's the Brazilian influences that make this such a resounding album.Stanley Clarke's stuff is a little more restrained than some of the more rock influenced stuff Return to Forever eventually went into, but his technical chops are still a vital part of this session.This has to rank as one of the two or three greatest fusion albums ever made, easily approaching an equal breadth of musical accomplishment as 'Bitches Brew' by Miles or 'Birds of Fire' by the Mahavishnu Orchestra.Circle, conveys an emotional sensitivity and latin sentimentality that is nothing short of wrenching and breathtaking.All of the songs build and breath and crescendo in an continually evolving apex of beautiful improvisation.Simply gorgeous musicianship throughout.Was this review helpful to you?Great mood jazz
Chick Corea at his best in my view.Simple yet complex, this is a wonderful relaxing album.Classic Electric Piano Sound(ah where has it gone?This album may not be for everyone, but it is a great album.The synthesized sounds may take a little getting used to, but the music is...The result was actually somewhere in the middle.What About Jazz Since 67?If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.Light as a Feather, initially made the Return to Forever name.Miles Davis, Tony Williams, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra were exploring, and far less rooted in funk or rock."La Fiesta," complete with castanets and flamenco modes.And the dreamy, meditative "Crystal Silence" is an underrated gem waiting to be rediscovered.Please help improve this article by adding reliable references.He continued to pursue other collaborations and explore various musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.Chick Corea Elektric Band
4.Growing up surrounded by jazz music, he was influenced at an early age by bebop stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver and Lester Young.Paris Concert as a Wayne Shorter composition.Salvatore Sullo for whom Corea started taking lectures at age eight, who introduced him to classical music, helping spark his interest in musical composition.Bugle Corp based in Chelsea.Given a black tuxedo by his father, he started doing gigs when in high school.He enjoyed listening to Herb Pomeroy's band at the time, and had a trio which would play Horace Silver's music at a local jazz club.Tito Puente's band and Machito's band.The Cuban dance music was a great kind of antidote to some of the more serious, heady jazz that I was into.Then I discovered Spanish Latin music, which is flamenco.One of the earliest recordings of his playing is with Blue Mitchell's quintet on The Thing To Do.Incidentally, the same tune features a drum solo by a very young Al Foster.In September 1968, Corea replaced Herbie Hancock in the piano chair in Davis' band and appeared on landmark albums such as Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.In live performance he often used ring modulation of the electric piano, producing overtones reminiscent of Karlheinz Stockhausen.Using this style, he appeared on multiple Davis albums, including Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West and Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East.His live performances with the Miles Davis band continued into 1970.Anthony Braxton, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul.This band was documented on Blue Note and ECM.Aside from soloing in an atonal style, Corea sometimes reached in the body of the piano and plucked the strings.Corea's compositions for this group often had a Brazilian tinge.In 1972, Corea played many of the early Return to Forever songs in a group he put together for Stan Getz; this group, with Stanley Clarke on bass and Tony Williams on drums, recorded the Columbia label album Captain Marvel under Getz's name.No one replaced vocalist Purim.Corea usually performs "Spain" with a prelude based on Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (1940), which earlier received a jazz orchestration on Miles Davis' and Gil Evans' "Sketches of Spain".Duet collaboration with Gary Burton
In the 1970s, Corea started working occasionally with vibraphonist Gary Burton, with whom he recorded several duet albums on ECM, including 1972's Crystal Silence.In 1992, he started his own record label, Stretch Records.The rest of the tunes are Corea originals.He also participated in 1998's Like Minds, which features Gary Burton on vibes, Pat Metheny on guitar, Dave Holland on bass and Roy Haynes on drums.Five years later he composed his first work not to feature any keyboards: His String Quartet No.The latter album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.Many of his songs contain explicit references to Scientology and various works by Hubbard.For example, "What Games Shall We Play Today?"Scientology that life consists of "games" in which the objective is to extract joy and satisfaction.His 2004 album To the Stars is a tone poem based on Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name.In 1998 Chick Corea and fellow entertainers Anne Archer, Isaac Hayes, and Haywood Nelson attended the 30th anniversary of Freedom Magazine, the Church of Scientology's investigative news journal, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, to honor 11 human rights activists.Reportedly, Joe Farrell once told him not to "lay that Scientology shit" on him.Corea also appears in the Scientology film Orientation, giving a testimonial on how Scientology has helped him.His 1968 album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.Solo and collaborative releases
Tones for Joan's Bones (1966)
Inner Space (1966)
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968)
Is (1969)
Sundance (1969)
The Song of Singing (1970)
Piano Improvisations Vol.Replies to visitors' questions
Jazzreview.Verve Records biography and discography
Interview with Chick Corea by Michael J Stewart
Herzig, Monika (October 1999)."Reissuing My Spanish Heart", My Spanish Heart CD booklet
Zwerin, Mike (February 2, 2000).Digital Interviews: Chick Corea (1999)
Talking to Les Tomkins in 1972.What does it do to your neighborhood?This page was last modified on 16 March 2008, at 04:46.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details. |
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