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Live Review

Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock at Zellerbach Hall

by Harry S. Pariser
March 30, 2015

Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock Duet Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA March 19, 2015 The two pianists needed no introduction. Taking the stage at Cal Performances, they turned to each other, old friends reuniting, and bantered about their various past visits to Berkeley, California. This was the fourth date in a tour which would culminate with four European engagements, but it was by no means their first onstage duet. The two first toured together as a ...

Album Review

Chick Corea: Trilogy

Read "Trilogy" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
March 18, 2015

Magnifico triplo CD registrato nel corso di alcune tournée in giro per il mondo, Trilogy documenta un Chick Corea in stato di grazia. Immergiamoci allora in questa limpida cascata di note, circonfusa da una lussureggiante vegetazione di gustose parafrasi. Non è ovviamente questa la sede per ripercorrere le caratteristiche di un pianismo ormai storicizzato. Varrà però la pena di sottolineare l'intatta abilità a scomporre gli standard interpretati, mimetizzando il nucleo melodico di base. Sin dagli iniziali “You're ...

Extended Analysis

Chick Corea Trio: Trilogy

by John Kelman
September 2, 2014

Remember when CDs were so expensive to make that record companies would release double albums and remove a track or two, just so that it could fit on a single CD? Well, there may be many negatives about the state of the music industry today---despite this being a time when so much music is being made that, like the glory days in the 1960s/70s, it seems like anything is possible...there's just no more industry support to help any of it ...

Live Review

Chick Corea al Parco della Musica, Roma

by Mario Calvitti
June 24, 2014

Parco della Musica Roma 10.05.2014 In occasione della recentissima pubblicazione del suo nuovo CD di solo piano, Portraits, il pianista Chick Corea ha intrapreso un tour mondiale che lo ha portato anche dalle nostre parti. Il suo concerto solistico è strutturato analogamente al CD, registrato dal vivo, con una prima parte che è una storia del piano jazz attraverso l'interpretazione di composizioni di alcuni tra i più importanti esponenti dello strumento, non soltanto in ...

Album Review

Chick Corea: The Ultimate Adventure: You Can't Return to Forever

Read "The Ultimate Adventure: You Can't Return to Forever" reviewed by Marc Davis

by Marc Davis
June 7, 2014

The Beatles are gone. I know that. But I keep thinking if I buy just one more Paul McCartney CD, maybe the old magic will return. Maybe. But it never does. Paul McCartney is like that. You know how great he was with the Beatles. You even know how great some of his solo records were. And even though you know he'll never write another “Band on the Run," and surely he'll never write another “Sgt. ...

Extended Analysis

Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

by Ian Patterson
May 21, 2014

It would have been inconceivable for Miles Davis in his post-sabbatical, 1980s reincarnation to have been billed as “an extra added attraction" on any festival or concert hall billing, but that's how it was when the trumpeter--already a legend--played his first ever gigs at the Filmore East, supporting Neil Young & Crazy Horse and the Steve Miller Band in March 1970. The initiative to stage Davis at the hallowed rock venue came from CBS President Clive Davis, no doubt with ...

Extended Analysis

Miles Davis: Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

by Doug Collette
May 19, 2014

Intensely intoxicating as much as it is wholly hypnotic, Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore becomes increasingly so through the course of its four compact discs. More than doubling the playing time of the original four-sided vinyl release, The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 posits an argument the band(s) of this era were among the finest ever led by the man with the horn. If that sounds hyperbolic, it's difficult not to rhapsodize about this archive series in general ...