Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Duet
The Blue Note
New York City, NY
2016-12-07
Set 1

Source-audience capture on Roland Edirol R-05 16 Bit, 44.1 WAV files (internal mics)> WAV files split in Audacity> WAV to Flac conversion TLH> Torrent creation in TLH> TTD

Chick Corea- piano
John McLaughlin-electric guitar

01- Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Opening remarks
02-My Romance
03-Bemsha Swing
04-A Lotus on Irish Streams
05-Round Midnight
06-Waltz for Debby
07-Blue Monk
08-Solar
09-Someday My Prince Will Come (with Gayle Moran Corea)

Historic. What else can you say. Not too many times that these 2 icons play together publicly in this duo format. Here they were to mark Chick's 75th birthday.
This was a one night event (2 sets-so if anyone got set 2, please share it!) before 4 nights of RTF meets Mahavishnu with presumably more electric keys from Chick and a rhythm section of Victor Wooten and Lenny White (Lenny was seated nearby at this show).Same sharing request goes out to anyone with a recording of these 4 nights.
These guys obviously have an amazing amount of regard and affection for each other and, as previously mentioned, a shared history. Therefore, the emphasis here was on fun and creation. You'll hear Chick say "Welcome to our living room.", and that was the feeling. The audience were guests at a private jam between 2 amazing artists.
This was a tough show to record due to the packed to the rafters house and close quarters with others. Therefore, you'll hear occasional coughs, catcalls, tableware clinks, and waitresses. Despite all of that, it's a great listen. I've split the flac files in such a way that you can eventually edit out the applause and artist comments between tracks if you'd choose to just hear the performances.
Chick said he was giving himself a birthday present with Someday My Prince Will Come by having his wife sing with him and John (jokes of course about them both being her former employers). Gayle has always been an aquired taste for some. She's obviously not, to my knowledge, a current performer. I'm relating that because she gamely "goes for it" in the verses of Prince, but her chops are not what they once might have been. If that's a problem for anyone, John and Chick more than make up in their comping and soloing for anything. Chick was very happy with this, at any rate.
It seems there may eventually be some official releases coming from this lengthy Blue Note residency, so please support the artists by purchasing them and their other commercially released material.