![]() Killer Tracks: “La Fiesta”, one of Corea’s most popular tunes, debuts here with galloping percussion and the too-rarely-covered waltz “Times Lie”. Corea’s astonishing comping pushes Getz to feverish playing whenever possible, even though the leader’s tone remained lush. The recital they recorded includes five of Corea’s most winning tunes, plus Strayhorn’s “Lush Life”-and it is the pull and tug between Getz’s traditionalism and the future-leaning of the band that makes every second of this date electric. Getz brought in the rhythm section, but he wanted a jazz drummer after some takes didn’t go well.Ĭorea added the Fender Rhodes electric piano to the band’s arsenal on the road, modernizing Getz’s sound as well as his book and his willingness to really bite at the music. Corea had already assembled his first version of Return to Forever, built around the limber young bassist Stanley Clarke, saxophonist Joe Farrell, and two Brazilian musicians, the vocalist Flora Purim and percussionist Airto Moreira. Its Brilliance: Stan Getz knew his way around bossa nova and Latin jazz styles, of course, and was looking for a rhythm section for a tour that would get him back in the public eye. The Band: Stan Getz, tenor sax Corea Stanley Clarke, acoustic bass Tony Williams, drums Airto Moreira, percussion Killer Tracks: “Sometime Ago” and a cycle of “Where Are You Now” tunes that sound freely improvised yet lyrically appealingĥ. Stan Getz – Captain Marvel (Verve, 1972) ![]() In this solo performance, all the elements are present, with Corea using the piano like the orchestra it can be. The songs themselves are wonderful, and we hear for the first time a Corea classic, “Sometime Ago”, soon to be recorded by the first incarnation of Return to Forever. The music is light and often breathtaking in its transparence: holes of silence open up, and then melody rushes in to fill them. ![]() Corea’s ability to captivate an ear with lines that are both ornamented and extremely direct comes clear on the opening “Noon Song”. ![]() The result was Jarrett’s Facing You and two volumes from Corea, each solo. Its Brilliance: The story is that ECM intended to record Corea and Jarrett in duet, but Jarrett demurred. ![]()
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