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Manhattan Transfer: The Chick Corea Songbook

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Label: Four Quarters Entertainment
Released: 2009.09.29
Time:
 55:23
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): See Artists
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.manhattantransfer.org
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Purchase date: 2009.12.18
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Free Samba/Spain [I Can Recall] (Corea/Jarreau/Maren/Rodrigo) - 5:15
[2] Prelude (Francisco Javier Galego) - 3:10
[3] Spain [I Can Recall] (Corea/Jarreau/Maren/Rodrigo) - 6:37
[4] One Step Closer [The One Step] (Corea/Hauser/Parks) - 5:16
[5] Children's Song #15 (Corea) - 1:16
[6] 500 Miles High (Corea/Potter) - 6:52
[7] Another Roadside Attraction (Space Circus) (Corea/Hauser/Hauser/Parks) - 4:21
[8] Time's Lie (Corea/Potter) - 3:54
[9] La Chanson du Bébé [Children's Song No.1]) - Bentyne/Corea/Siegel) - 2:32
[10] Ragtime in Pixiland [Pixiland Rag] (Corea/Paul) - 1:46
[11] The Story of Anna & Armando [Armando's Rhumba] (Corea/Rabbi Harry Levin/Siegel) - 6:15
[12] Free Samba [Extended Version] (Corea/Jarreau/Maren/Rodrigo) - 8:16

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Janis Siegel - Vocals, Finger Snapping, Liner Notes, Vocal Arrangements, Producer
Tim Hauser - Vocals, Finger Snapping, Liner Notes, Producer
Cheryl Bentyne - Vocals, Liner Notes, Producer
Alan Paul - Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes, Vocal Arrangements

Ronnie Cuber - Baritone Saxophone
Fred Hersch - Piano
Billy Drummond - Drums
Alex Acuña - Percussion
John Benítez - Electric Bass, Vocals, Coro
Jack Bryant - Handbells
Yaron Gershovsky - Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, fender rhodes
Conrad Herwig - Trombone
Scott Kinsey - Keyboards
Lou Marini - Flute, Alto Flute
Christian McBride - Acoustic Bass
Gary Novak - Drums
Mike Panella - Trumpet
Joe Passaro - Marimbas
Don Shelton - Human Whistle, Soloist
Ramon Stagnaro - Acoustic Guitar
Steve Tavaglione - Soprano Saxophone, EWI
Vince Cherico - Drums
Jimmy Earl - Electric Bass
Luis Quintero - Percussion, Conga, Timbales
Basie Hauser - Finger Snapping
Edsel Gomez - Piano
John Herbert - Acoustic Bass
Airto - Percussion
Laurie Green - Finger Snapping
Steve Hass - Drums, Finger Snapping
Gary Wicks - Electric Bass, Fretless Bass Guitar, Acoustic Bass
Scott Gilmore - Handbells
Michele Weir - Finger Snapping
Robert Rodriguez - Trumpet
Barb Sennet Wilson - Finger Snapping
Bais Haus - Synthesizer
Janet Vrudney - Handbells

Corey Allen - Arranger, Producer
Bais Haus - Arranger, Producer, Drum Programming
Michele Weir - Vocal Arrangements, Vocal Producer, Instrument Arrangement
Yusuf Gandhi - Executive Producer, Concept
Scott Kinsey - Arranger
Edsel Gomez - Arranger
Fred Hersch - Vocal Arrangements, Instrument Arrangement
Chick Corea - Vocal Arrangements
Yaron Gershovsky - Arranger, Programming, Vocal Arrangements, Instrument Arrangement
Scott Noll - Engineer
Bill Airey Smith - Engineer
Mark Wilder - Mastering
Pamela Springsteen - Portrait Photography
Burton Yount - Art Direction
Beth Coller - Photo Assistance
Paul Goldman - Booking
Francisco Javier Galego - Lyricist

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2009 CD Four Quarters Entertainment

Recorded at teh  Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ; Broken Wave Studios, Glendale, CA; Conway Studios, Hollywood, CA; Moonpeople Studios, Northridge, CA.

Grammy-Award winning jazz/pop vocal group, The Manhattan Transfer celebrate their 40th Anniversary by releasing a superb new CD inspired by the classic work of jazz great Chick Corea. 'The Chick Corea Songbook' is this highly innovative vocal quartet's first new record in five years and features fresh and exciting vocal interpretations of many of his popular compositions, including "Spain" and "500 Miles High". Corea, who plays on the CD, has also contributed an original composition entitled "Free Samba" especially for this album. The recording also features special guest appearances by some of today's finest musicians including Christian McBride, Airto, Alex Acuña, Fred Hersch, Edsel Gomez and Lou Marini and others.



OK...as I still remain somewhat speechless over how to express my overwhelming feelings surrounding this project...I am led to believe this is the feeling itself! Stark, new, uncharted. In a time where music is fast disintegrating before our very ears comes a genuine surprise in our nearly 40-year career! Something, I feel is brand new for us! Yes, Chick Corea has gifted us all for quite some time with his music and will continue to withstand the test of time as we all know. I guess what I am surprised and humbled by, is we have been handed four first-class tickets on this journey, by way a dream turned reality by Mr. Yusuf Gandhi. With a brave variety of songs, some 'til now unsung, others already songs that we took various detours on, I honestly feel this otherworldly adventure was delivered by a much higher source! Thank you, Yusuf, for the dream, and thank you, Chick, for offering up your delicious, endless source of inspired melodies. - CHERYL BENTYNE

Time has a funny way of deciding when things will come to fulfillment. I remember vividly having enthusiastic conversations with Chick and Gayle back in 1975, at their old house in Los Feliz, relating to a collective project. After a while, I never thought it would happen. But, thanks to Yusuf Gandhi, and his wonderful vision, it did happen. For myself, I found the project to be extremely challenging, particularly because of the relationship of some of the melodic intervals and their respective rhythms. But most musical entities that have been around as long as us seem content to rely on their old hits, and catalogue favorites. I'm grateful we were given the opportunity to stretch out once again, and I'm also glad we took it. Sincere thanks to Chick for his wonderful music, and to Yusuf for the challenge. - TIM HAUSER

Doing this CD has been an incredible musical journey. It's something that the group has wanted to do since first meeting Chick back in the late '70s but never got around to doing. So when Yusuf Gandhi and Bob Belden presented us with the idea of doing The Chick Corea Songbook we knew immediately that the time had come to finally fulfill our dream. The biggest challenge was picking the material because Chick's compositions are harmonically and rhythmically very complex and in some cases not really singable. In the end I feel we managed to pick a diversified group of songs, some well known and some obscure that needed to be reconstructed and have lyrics written to, and after four decades of creating music together gave us one of the most inspiring, creatively challenging albums we ever made. Thanks Chick. - ALAN PAUL

To sing a Chick melody and get inside the mind of a Sicilian/Spanish/Space Genius has been a magical and transformational odyssey, filled with majestic vistas of España, starry expanses of universe, children singing, pixies, leprechauns, love castles and fusion tones that have rattled my bones. I became a lifelong Chick Corea fan when I first heard the groundbreaking album Inner Space, and I haven't looked back since. The things that have left the greatest impression on me, as we complete this CD, have been the scope of Chick's musical imagination, his mastery of rhythm, his playfulness, and his restless creative curiosity. I will also treasure the conversations with Chick about his parents, Anna and Armando, which informed the lyric for "Armando's Rhumba." Thank you Chick, for all the challenges, the elegant beauty of your writing, and for the opportunity to put our vocal spin on your music. - JANIS SIEGEL

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