Chick Corea and Circle
Chick Corea- piano
Anthony Braxton- reeds
Dave Holland- bass
Barry Altschul- drums
Hamburg, Germany
March 4, 1971
performance quality: A
recording quality: A-
source: 1st generation FM broadcast tape
runtime: 108:40
setlist:
disc 1 67:48
1: radio announcer intro 1:01
2: 508NK (Braxton) 30:39
3: rhymes 9:52
4: no greater love 26:15
disc 2 40:51
5: 18:20
6: 22:31
comments:
another from the concerts, tours and bands not heard in etree dept.
In the extremely busy and active career of Chick Corea, this was
one of the last bands he played in (maybe even the last) before he
found and stuck with an obscure little band called "Return to Forever".
Actually, Corea hasn't played in many "obscure" bands at all, this may
be his most obscure of all, since it was only together for one tour,
and not a very long one. I think this is also Chick's first band where
he was bandleader, since a year earlier he was keyboard player/sideman
for the God of Jazz himself, Miles Davis. This is probably the most
"avant-garde" Corea I've ever heard, and the Miles influence is rather
hefty even without a trumpet in this group. This couldn't be more
different music than the carefully structured music of RTF. It's also
to help celebrate one of the greatest 40 year careers anyone's ever had.
If Chick Corea isn't in the jazz hall of fame, they need to rebuild it.
He is clearly right up there with Miles and Coltrane as a musical pioneer
and legendary concert performer, selling out concerts in 1969 and 2008
and not doing it with very much cheese jazz. Chick does play some of that,
but not in here or any of my many Chick posts. He does like to use alot of
synthesizer with RTF, but not here, this is piano Chick, much like my
1972 RTF post. Nothing with Anthony Braxton in it sounds like RTF, including
this show.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
You can't sell Holland anyway.
The Dutch would never stand for it.