Continents Concerto For Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra
Corea Chick
Continents Concerto For Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra
Corea Chick
Chick Corea presents his “musical dream,” a new composition “in\nthe spirit of Mozart” – where jazz, Latin, and classical converge\ninto a globally inspired concerto for jazz quintet and chamber\norchestra.
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The Continents is performed by Corea with a hand-picked all-star\norchestra including members of The Harlem Quartet and Imani Winds,\namong others – and conducted by Steven Mercurio at the Manhattan\nCenter Studios in June 2011.
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The second disc includes Corea’s improvised solos – and four\ntracks with his jazz quintet from the same sessions.
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Review
Richard Mohr
God bless Chick. Just when you think he couldn’t get any nuttier he gives us an hour-long six-movement concerto for orchestra and jazz quintet based on (gasp!) the continents. And yes, thanks to condensing the Americas into one continent he manages to include both Australia and Antarctica, unlike the designers of the Olympic Rings. Although I have a declared hatred of much ‘third-stream’ music, this is pretty charming stuff, and would sound just dandy on the porch of your beach home with a nice merlot. Better news: in spare studio time the quartet put down some lovely standards and Chick recorded some stellar little improv pieces, and the second disc they comprise is just sublime. Until the 50-blu ray box set inspired by L. Ron Hubbard’s hat collection, this may be the definitive Chick, for better or for worse.
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