Chick Corea

To prepare for the 21st century, Chick formed Origin, whose members were not yet born when he first arrived in New York. All grew up on Chick's music and all have a flair for navigating the Spanish, South American and Cuban styles that Chick calls his spiritual home base. During three years of constant activity, Chick composed a formidable body of music for them to play featuring an array of rhythmic gambits crisp strings of eighth and sixteenth notes, rubato orchestral voicings, montunos. Bassist Avishai Cohen and Drummer Jeff Ballard are on top of him like white on rice. They don't just play the music they become it. Using a three-horn front line Steve Davis on trombone and Tim Garland and Steve Wilson on woodwind instruments Chick finds the appropriate textures for the lovely, floating rhythms and arching melody of Armando's Tango, a song dedicated to his father.
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Length: 57:00
Posted: 1/24/2008

Album: MOZART SESSIONS, THE; Label: Sony Classical
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Posted: 6/20/2008

The New Trio unites Corea with Origin's Avishai Cohen and Jeff Ballard, the rhythm section he has worked most with since 199. They inspired him to write a flood of new music. On Lifeline, which has the extroverted, light-as-a-feather quality of Chick's 70s recordings with Return to Forever, Ballard is allotted the space for a remarkable drum solo one brilliantly illustrating a range of texture and sound rarely heard from the standard jazz drum kit. Cohen's solo, which follows, is similarly enterprising, as Chick offers ample space for his young charges to stretch out. By doing so, Chick reveals yet another aspect of his maturity, of his understanding that, while mentorship is one of the intrinsic responsibilities of successful artistry, it also offers rewards of information and achievement that flow in both directions.
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Length: 53:00
Posted: 11/1/2008