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I was a charter member of the old fuze-zone, but what good did that do me?
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Post by millions on Dec 27, 2019 6:26:04 GMT -6
The albums I'm talking about include A.R.C, The Complete "IS" Sessions, Early Circle, and Trio Music. These represent Corea at his most adventurous, and also the most "avant garde" phase of his career. This music sounds almost twelve-tone, as if he'd been listening to Milton Babbitt and Schoenberg.
Why did he abandon this approach? For commercial reasons? Did Scientology tell him he needed to "communicate" more?
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Post by GeorgeX on Dec 27, 2019 7:15:19 GMT -6
I think that was right before he formed RTF. I know he was very excited about the burgeoning fusion movement.
I'm guessing he just wanted to get to that.
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I was a charter member of the old fuze-zone, but what good did that do me?
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Post by millions on Dec 27, 2019 11:54:09 GMT -6
I think you're right; and he saw what Miles Davis was doing. All these jazz guys just wanted gigs and an audience, and bigger places to play. Jazz was evolving out of its "chamber music in lounges" phase, into the new, bigger, "concert" phase of electric music and hippies.
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Post by teejay on Jan 10, 2020 14:56:32 GMT -6
I think you're right; and he saw what Miles Davis was doing. All these jazz guys just wanted gigs and an audience, and bigger places to play. Jazz was evolving out of its "chamber music in lounges" phase, into the new, bigger, "concert" phase of electric music and hippies. That seems a strange comment. Chick didn’t just see what Miles was doing; he was a member of the band from 1968 to 1970 playing on Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. He played with Miles, (fringed vests, velvet loon pants and headbands) at the Isle Wight festival for a crowd numbering 600,000 on August 29 1970. They were preceded by Joni Mitchell and Tiny Tim and followed by Ten Years After, ELP, the Doors and the Who. Only after this did he and Dave Holland leave to form Circle. My personal favourites of Chick Corea’s serious side are his Piano Improvisations Volumes 1 and 2 and the Crystal Silence Album with Gary Burton. |
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Post by GeorgeX on Jan 12, 2020 9:14:56 GMT -6
I think you're right; and he saw what Miles Davis was doing. All these jazz guys just wanted gigs and an audience, and bigger places to play. Jazz was evolving out of its "chamber music in lounges" phase, into the new, bigger, "concert" phase of electric music and hippies. My personal favourites of Chick Corea’s serious side are his Piano Improvisations Volumes 1 and 2 and the Crystal Silence Album with Gary Burton. Serious side? Does he have some stand-up comedy albums I don't know of? All of his stuff is pretty serious to me, despite some silly album covers thru the years. |
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