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Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Hot House

Read "Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Hot House" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 9, 2012

The creative connection upon which vibraphonist Gary Burton ruminates to such length, in his essay for Hot House, is evident from the first instrumental exchanges with longtime collaborator, pianist Chick Corea. Burton and Corea complete each others' thoughts throughout “Can't We Be Friends," sounding as effortless and natural--arguably more so--as the seamless improvisations that earmarked their very first recorded project together forty years ago, Crystal Silence (ECM, 1972).The symbiosis recurs throughout the ten tracks here, which span standards ...

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The Mothership Returns

by John Kelman
June 19, 2012

When keyboardist Chick Corea announced--following a successful world tour of his reunited 1970s-era fusion juggernaut Return to Forever, which, featuring guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White, included a high octane 2008 performance that was one of the best-attended in the Ottawa International Jazz Festival's three-decade history--that he'd be reuniting the earlier incarnation of the group responsible for Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor, 1973), there was plenty of buzz. He ultimately became the ...

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Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Hot House

Read "Hot House" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 28, 2012

With a partnership lasting longer than most marriages, pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton know what it takes to keep things fresh. Since the release of Crystal Silence (ECM, 1973), they have toured virtually every year, but record far less frequently, with only six albums to their credit, most recently The New Crystal Silence (Concord, 2008). With the pianist especially busy these days--his The Continents: Music for Jazz Quartet & Chamber Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon, 2012) just out and a ...

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Chick Corea - Stefano Bollani: Orvieto

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 8, 2012

Questo CD, registrato ad Orvieto il 30 dicembre 2010 nell'ambito di Umbria Jazz Winter, ci riporta un duo senza dubbio indovinato e un concerto memorabile. Non so a chi sia da attribuire l'idea di far suonare assieme Bollani e Corea (e quello umbro non è stato il loro unico incontro); sta di fatto che se l'operazione è pienamente riuscita, ciò è dovuto a molte ragioni concomitanti, a cominciare da un inevitabile e accurato lavoro di management. Probabilmente alla buona riuscita ...

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Chick Corea / Stefano Bollani: Orvieto

Read "Orvieto" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 14, 2011

Though Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani hail from opposite sides of the Atlantic they're kindred spirits in many ways. Two of jazz's more prolific musicians, both have explored music in any number of settings. Both embrace the roots and traditions of jazz yet refuse to be shackled. A love of Latin melodies is also common ground, but perhaps what binds them most are their boundless curiosity and an inherent desire to be at play. Corea recorded Play (Blue Note, 1992) ...

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Chick Corea / Stefano Bollani: Orvieto

by John Kelman
September 26, 2011

If the combination of two chordal instruments--guitar with piano, or vibraphone with guitar, say--can prove a significant challenge in improvised music, then surely the piano duo is the most demanding of all. No other instrument has a seven-and-a-quarter octave range, played with eight fingers and two thumbs, creating far greater risk of harmonic, melodic and rhythmic train wrecks. Pianist Chick Corea has been mining the vast harmonic potential of the piano duo more than most, beginning with ...

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Chick Corea / Eddie Gomez / Paul Motian: Further Explorations

by John Kelman
September 21, 2011

Chick Corea / Eddie Gomez / Paul Motian Further Explorations Universal Classics and Jazz Japan 2011 Three still-living jazz icons team up on Further Explorations, an album inspired by another legend whose influence remains unequivocal, 30 years after passing away, age 51, in 1980. Gaining initial exposure as a member of Bill Evans' first trio on New Jazz Conceptions (Riverside, 1956), drummer Paul Motian left the group nearly four years before bassist Eddie Gomez would ...