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Chick Corea:
The Continents - Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Released: 2012.02.07
Time:
 71:42/67:36
Category: Classical
Producer(s): Steven Epstein
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD-Double
Web address: www.chickcorea.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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CD 1 - Piano Concerto No.2 "The Continents"

[1] Africa (Ch.Corea) - 8:22
[2] Europe (Ch.Corea) - 20:28
[3] Australia (Ch.Corea) - 6:26
[4] America (Ch.Corea) - 12:32
[5] Asia (Ch.Corea) - 11:09
[6] Antarctica (Ch.Corea) - 12:45


CD 2

[1] Lotus Blossom (K.Dorham) - 14:31
[2] Blue Bossa (K.Dorham) - 6:17
[3] What's This (Ch.Corea) - 5:15
[4] Just Friends (J.Klenner/S.M.Lewis) - 9:15

Continuum:
[5] Solo Continuum 31 (Ch.Corea) - 1:06
[6] Solo Continuum 42 (Ch.Corea) - 2:06
[7] Solo Continuum 53 (Ch.Corea) - 1:15
[8] Solo Continuum 64 (Ch.Corea) - 2:45
[9] Solo Continuum 75 (Ch.Corea) - 7:25
[10] Solo Continuum 86 (Ch.Corea) - 2:52
[11] Solo Continuum 97 (Ch.Corea) - 1:28
[12] Solo Continuum 108 (Ch.Corea) - 2:56
[13] Solo Continuum 119 (Ch.Corea) - 3:10
[14] Solo Continuum 1310 (Ch.Corea) - 3:46
[15] Solo Continuum 1411 (Ch.Corea) - 3:29


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Chick Corea - Composer, Executive Producer, Liner Notes, Piano, Producer

Tim Garland - Flute, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Steve Davis - Trombone
Marcus Gilmore - Drums

Mariam Adam - Clarinet
Cyrus Berokhim - Viola
Cyrus Beroukhim - Viola
David Bowlin - Violin
David Byrd-Marrow - Horn
Valerie Coleman - Flute
Steve Davis - Trombone
Monica Ellis - Bassoon
David Fulmer - Viola
Ilmar Gavilan - Violin
Gregg August - Bass
Hans Glawischnig - Bass
David Grossman - Bass
Louis Hanzlik - Trumpet
Juan-Miguel Hernandez - Viola
Katie Hyun - Violin
Ariana Kim - Violin
Jacqueline Leclair - Oboe
Jesse Mills - Violin
Tai Murray - Violin
Doori Na - Violin
Michael Nicolas - Cello
Jeff Scott - Horn
Fred Sherry - Cello, Concert Master
Toyin Spellman-Diaz - Oboe
Richard Stoltzman - Clarinet
Arnaud Sussmann - Violin
Melissa White - Violin
Paul Wiancko - Cello

Steven Epstein - Producer
Bill Rooney - Executive Producer, Management
Bernie Kirsh - Engineer, Mixing, Recording
Ted Tuthill - Assistant Engineer
Todd Whitelock - Editing, Mixing
Brett Mayer - Mixing Assistant, Mixing Engineer
Steven Mercurio - Conductor
Marc Bessant - Art Direction, Design
Evelyn Brechtlein - Production Coordination
Greg Calbi - Mastering
Darren Moore - Technical Engineer
Halsey Quemere - Pro-Tools
John Rogers - Photography
Maki Suzuki - Assistant
Sheldon Yellowhair - Assistant
Kaz Tsujio - Piano Tuner
Andrew Elliott - Assistant, Composer's Assistant
Stefan Fransson - Cover Sculpture, Sculpture
Julie Rooney - Art Coordinator
Joel Scheuneman - Technical Advisor
Dan Muse - Liner Note Coordination

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As it took this great team to make it happen, my heartfelt thanks go to: Bill Rooney for helping me realize this concerto by managing my ideas through to realities. Tim Garland, Marcus Gilmore, Hans Glawischnig and Steve Davis for their friendship and brilliant performances. Fred Sherry for helping me assemble the perfect set of musicians for this project. And to Steve Mercurio for his warmth and care in helping me bring the details of my score into focus. The Harlem String Quartet and Imani Winds for bringing their uplifting spirit to this music. And to Richard Stoltzman for his encouragement and transcendent clarinet sound. All the musicians of the orchestra for their high-spirited performances. Steve Epstein for his expert handling of the complexities of the sonic environment - and the recording and editing aspects of this project. Bernie Kirsh for his friendship and artistic recording - and Todd Whitelock for his masterful editing and mixing. My personal thanks to my wife Gayle Moran Corea for her love and support. And to L. Ron Hubbard for being a continual source of inspiration.

Chick Corea



Making music for a combination of orchestral musicians and jazz musicians has end-less possibilities. Appreciation for the abilities each has for the other makes for an atmosphere charged with high interest, creative communication and new ideas. This was the setting for the composing and recording of The Continents for me, a dream come true. The process of making the recording was magical. The morale of the mu-sicians plus the recording team was so high that we finished recording the six move-ments of the concerto a day and a half under schedule. After saying goodbyes to the orchestra musicians, the Quintet had an impromptu jam just for fun. Of course, the recorder was on. I then had the next evening to record some piano solo bits that I thought would fit the cadenza sections of the concerto. After recording those, I felt there was still something incomplete about The Continents recording. So I decided to try to get to what it was by improvising on the piano by myself I felt that the basic material was somehow lacking something was missing.

That last evening, while I was waiting for Bernie to set things up and turn on the re-corder, I played the piano, starting my exploration to find what was missing. As you will hear, after playing several little pieces, I asked Bernie if he was ready to record to which Bernie answered that he had been recording all the time but didn t want to interrupt me. So we continued recording from there until I felt I was finished. After listening to the Quintet s jam and the piano soliloquies, I now feel that the recording of The Continents is complete (at least for the moment). The music may have its technical flaws, as perfection was never the goal but I m pleased that the music was made in the Spirit Of Play, which was the initial intent of the composition after being invited to write a piano concerto in the spirit of Mozart by the Wiener Mozartjahr.

Chick Corea



The two-disc Corea: The Continents Concerto for Jazz Quintet and Chamber Orchestra features pianist Chick Corea performing with his combo and orchestra Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra album. The first disc features Corea's six-part composition conceptualized around Africa, the Americas, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, and Europe. While Corea's small group features such players as trombonist Steve Davis, saxophonist Tim Garland, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, Corea is also backed by a handpicked orchestra conducted by Steve Mercurio and including members of the Harlem String Quartet and Imani Winds. This is truly a forward-thinking ensemble that can deftly fuse intricately arranged orchestral passages with more improvisatory jazz sections. The second disc features an extended solo piano series as well as several standards featuring Corea and his small group.

Matt Collar - All Music Guide

  

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