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Return to Forever IV / Zappa Plays Zappa: Denver, August 27, 2011
by Geoff Anderson
Return to Forever IV with Zappa Plays ZappaParamount TheaterDenver, COAugust 27, 2011 With Return to Forever IV and Zappa Plays Zappa on the same bill, the Paramount Theater heard more notes per cubic inch than ever before. To say that these two bands play fast is like saying the Yankees ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 4-6: June 26-28, 2011
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 T D Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-July 3, 2011 Well, the numbers are in, and the opening weekend of the 2011 TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival has broken all previous records, despite a day of heavy rain severely impacting attendance for ...
Chick Corea: Creative Giant
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
Virtuosity is a beautiful thing. One would somehow like to believe that anybody can learn how to play any given instrument with delicate, enchanting energy; but truth be told, some are simply born with a gift that most can only dream of. The ability to amaze others through music, enriching the hearts and widening the creative ...
Corea, Clark & White: Forever
by C. Michael Bailey
This Concord Music Group release is identical to that reviewed by John Kelman, previously released on Universal Music Japan. A two-CD set, the first disc is an acoustic piano trio recital from the original rhythm section of the 1970s fusion band Return to Forever, recorded during the 2009 RTF-Unplugged Tour, while the second is an electric ...
Corea, Clarke & White: Forever
by John Kelman
As successful as its massive 2008 world tour was--stopping at the Ottawa Jazz Festival, and yielding both a live CD (Returns) and DVD (Returns: Live at Montreux 2008) from Eagle Entertainment the following year--it was patently clear that Return to Forever couldn't continue with guitarist Al Di Meola. It was, however, equally certain that RTF's remaining ...
Of Mist and Melting (ECM 1120)
Bill Connors Of Mist And Melting Bill Connors guitar Jan Garbarek saxophones Gary Peacock bass Jack DeJohnette drums Recorded December 1977, Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher Three years after his astonishing acoustic turn on Theme To ...
Lenny White: Jazz/Rock Collides Again
by Carl L. Hager
When that cool, overcast dawn arrived in Bethel, New York, neither the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair's expired permit, nor the rain, mud, and technical problems could have kept Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys from playing. It was destiny. Believe it. A hundred miles south on that same morning of August ...
John Moulder: Bifrost
by John Kelman
A longtime member of ex-Pat Metheny Group drummer Paul Wertico's trio, enough has already been written about John Moulder's double life as jazz guitarist and ordained priest. Bifröst is Moulder's follow-up to the ambitious and eclectic Trinity (Origin, 2006), where the guitarist's spirituality became a touchstone for music ranging from the ethereal to the grounded, and ...
Bill Connors to Join Corea, Clarke & White for September 2nd Hollywood Bowl Concert
It's official: pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White will be joined September 2nd by guest guitarist Bill Connors at the Hollywood Bowl kick-off gig of their fall tour. The band, now billed as Corea, Clarke & White, will also be joined by legendary violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and song stylist Chaka Khan. Inspired ...
The Anthology
Label: Sony Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy; After the Cosmic Rain; Captain Senor Mouse; Theme to the
Mothership; Space Circus (Part I & II); The Game Maker; Vulcan Worlds; The Shadow of Lo;
Return to the Seventh Galaxy; Song to the Pharoah Kings. CD2: Dayride; Sofistifunk; No Mystery;
Celebration Suite Part I & II; Medieval Overture; Sorceress; The Romantic Warrior; Majestic
Dance; The Magician; Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant Part I & II.