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Chick Corea: Eye of the Beholder

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Artist: Chick Corea
Title: Eye of the Beholder
Released: 1988
Label: GPR Records
Time: 53:11
Producer(s): See Artists ...
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Category: Jazz
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.02.09
Price in €: 7,99
Web address: www.chickcorea.com

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[1] Home Universe (Ch.Corea) - 2:46
[2] Eternal Child (Ch.Corea) - 4:50
[3] Forgotten Past (Ch.Corea) - 3:00
[4] Passage (Ch.Corea) - 4:53
[5] Beauty (Ch.Corea) - 7:48
[6] Cascade, Pt. 1 (Ch.Corea) - 2:00
[7] Cascade, Pt. 2 (Ch.Corea) - 5:08
[8] Trance Dance (Ch.Corea) - 5:50
[9] Eye of the Beholder (Ch.Corea) - 6:32
[10] Ezinda (Ch.Corea) - 6:54
[11] Amnesia (Ch.Corea) - 3:30

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Chick Corea - Synthesizer, Piano, Arranger, Keyboards, Engineer, Performer, Liner Notes, Mixing, Producer
Frank Gambale - Guitar
John Patitucci - Bass
Eric Marienthal - Saxophone
Dave Weckl - Drums

John Novello - Synthesizer

Ron Moss - Executive Album Producer
Dave Grusin - Executive Producer
Larry Rosen - Executive Producer
Bernie Kirsh - Engineer, Mixing
Duncan Aldrich - Assistant Engineer
Mike Reese - Mastering
 

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1988 LP GRP 91053   
1990 LP GRP GR-1053   
1990 CS GRP GRC-1053   
1990 CD GRP 9564



Chick Corea "I compose in various ways - I never compose at the computer as it's too slow. I got really used to using the pencil (2B lead - .7) on score paper - it goes swiftly for me that way. But I very often work out ideas by improvising things at the piano - sometimes I dream melodies - like on 'Eye Of The Beholder' that theme was a dream."

www.chickcorea.com



During an era when the word "fusion" was applied to any mixture of jazz with pop or funk, Chick Corea's Elektric Band reinforced the word's original meaning: a combination of jazz improvisations with the power, rhythms and sound of rock. Eye of the Beholder, which found guitarist Frank Gambale, saxophonist Eric Marienthal and bassist John Patitucci displaying increasingly original solo voices, is one of this group's finest recordings and ranks with the best fusion of the latter half of the 1980s.

Scott Yanow, All-Music Guide



The best of the Elektric Band series! This album sums up the ingenuity and exceptional capabilities of one of the finest jazz-fusion bands ever. It can be heard again and again without dissapontment. Chick Corea's unlimited talent for bringing together classical composition with jazz, rock and latin has never been so clearly expressed in any of his albums, except for this one. This album tought me to love jazz, it opened my eyes for the wonderful world of improvisation, which life is. The album is almost a journey into the mind of Corea, told by a bunch of people who truly unites their virtuous capabilities into a blend of sometimes humorous, sometimes deeply serious and technically baffling orchestration. A masterpiece of what music also can be.

Massimo Fiorentino, Copenhagen



Chick Corea Elektric Band: Chick Corea (piano, synthesizers); Eric Marienthal (saxophone); Frank Gambale (guitar); John Patitucci (bass); Dave Weckl (drums). Recorded at Mad Hatter Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California. Includes liner notes by Chick Corea. After a highly impressive debut album and a stylistically simpler sophomore release, the Chick Corea Elektric Band proceeded to produce an album that was musically more advanced than anything they had accomplished before. The result, EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, is arguably the best record the band produced in their seven-year existence. With saxophonist Eric Marienthal and guitarist Frank Gambale on board to enhance the core trio of Corea, Dave Weckl (drums) and John Patitucci (bass), EYE is the perfect balance of the group's stunning technical chops, musical artistry and technological wizardry.

The most obvious difference on this record is the incorporation of more natural, acoustic sounds into the "electric" format. Corea's use of acoustic piano (enhanced by synthesizers), Weckl's natural drum and percussion sounds, Marienthal's sax and even Gambale's use of some acoustic guitar lend a much warmer vibe to EYE than previous efforts. What's more, many compositions, including "Home Universe," "Eternal Child," "Beauty" and "Ezinda" have a very chamber-ensemble feel with many varied textures and dynamics. Finally, the title track is a spectacular Spanish-flavored barnburner in the style of Corea's "Spain" that showcases each member's strengths to the fullest.

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