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The Sound of the Fender Rhodes, Part 2

by Len Davis
October 13, 2024

Continuing with part 2 of our show inspired by Chris May's article Ten Supreme Fender Rhodes Albums. Part 2 includes music by Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Brian Blade, Nik Bartsch and Donald Byrd. Listen to part 1, here. Playlist Stan Getz “Captain Marvel" from Feeling Swing (Verve) 00:00 Chick Corea & Return To Forever “500 Miles High" from Light As A Feather (Polydor) 10:23 Herbie Hancock" Vein Melter" from Head Hunters (Columbia) 20:46 Brian Blade Fellowship ...

Album Review

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck: Remembrance

Read "Remembrance" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 22, 2024

As much as master banjoist Bela Fleck loves to play, he loves to perform with other like-minded musicians virtually as much. Consequently, in addition to his long-standing role as leader of The Flecktones ensemble, he has continued to explore his love of the bluegrass music by which he first made a name for himself, My Bluegrass Heart (Renew, 2021), but also ventured far afield to collaborate with equally adventuresome creative partners like Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain for As We ...

Radio & Podcasts

Bassist Tom Kennedy, Chick Corea Elektrik Band, Oz Noy

by Len Davis
November 17, 2023

New music from bassist Tom Kennedy from New Start, Latin sounds from Tico Y Aguabajo, Chick Corea Elektrik Band The Future Is Now, Katsushito Trio with Tetsuo Sakurai, Italian guitarist Marco Sfogli, and Oz Noy from Triple Play. The Devine King Project Vol 1, guitarist Ron Bosse and a section on Japanese bands including Taku Yabuki with Modern World Symphony#3 Jizue with Biotop and Ear Candy Jazz Factory Tangerine Peel Jam. Playlist Tom Kennedy “Espiritu del Songo" from New Start (Self ...

Reassessing

The Electric Years Box Set

by Mike Jurkovic
November 9, 2023

In a year that has brought us a true bounty of previously unheard majesty including Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy (Impulse!), and Bill Evans; Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings from Denmark (1965-1969), (Elemental Music) it is only fitting that Miles Davis get his due. And in a very, very big way. Seared into modern memory, modern art, the music presented on the gloriously massive, eleven LP set Miles Davis: The Electric Years ...

Album Review

A.R.C.: A.R.C.

by Mike Jurkovic
September 18, 2023

Without the exploding theorems of multi-reedist/composer/alchemist Anthony Braxton, A.R.C., the multifarious rhythm trio of Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, continue the grand work of the short-lived (but most esteemed) quartet Circle on this 1971 reissue and remaster of the exploratory and free flying A.R.C. Corea, who, after a short solo turn would soon break the realm with Return To Forever is especially feisty here, as too is Holland, who would a year hence record Conference of ...

Album Review

Chick Corea: Sardinia

Read "Sardinia" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 2, 2023

Coming amid a flurry of Chick Corea titles set for release in 2023--Candid Records' 10-LP set, Chick Corea Electric Band: The Complete Studio Recordings 1986-1991; the previously unreleased, Corea curated, 2-CD live Electric Band The Future Is Now and ECM's re-release of the pianist's first session for the label as a leader with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, A.R.C. (1971)--it could be easy to overlook the exquisite music heard on Sardinia. But let's not. For there is something ...

Liner Notes

Jean-Luc Ponty: Open Mind

by Peter Rubie
April 20, 2023

If Individual Choice was the sketchbook of Jean-Luc Ponty's (JLP) decision to take his music in a new direction, Open Mind (1984), released the following year, was a deeper exploration of the emerging world of synthesizers and sequencers and their impact on live (studio) performance. Here, complex rhythmic patterns shift in the background while new sounds appear and disappear on the surface in colorful bursts, and outstanding jazz improvisors create familiar music in new settings. It's almost an audio version ...