Chick Corea Interviewed
This late ‘80s Chick Corea interview by Billy Taylor took place when Chick was splitting his life between the Akoustic Band and the Elektric Band, satisfying his two major streams of music and inspiration. The conversation reaches back to Chick’s Boston beginnings.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Out from the Shadow of Roy Haynes: Marcus Gilmore Starts to Loom Large
Marcus Gilmore is burnishing his own well-deserved reputation with Vijay Iyer, Chick Corea and Nicholas Payton, with no help needed from his venerated grandfather, Roy Haynes. Consider this a way to find out more about an important young drummer on today’s scene, in his own right.
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Fusion: Music Defying Definition
Fusion is a musical category no one has been able to define because it contains so many diverse artists. Basically, in 1969, it was coined to mean a fusion of jazz and rock. By 1970, it came to mean anything that was successful and pure jazz audiences hated. The audio examples on this NPR piece glimpse the diversity of what was going on in the ‘70s. Fusion continues and has exploded its boundaries well beyond the music created 30 years ago.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Barry Altschul: Both Sides of Now
Drummer Barry Altschul, who turned 70 earlier this month (he celebrated at Roulette in Brooklyn), has made a lot of great music both outside and inside, with the likes of Dave Holland, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea and Jon Irabegon. Altschul shared some of what he’s seen from both vantage points with Hank Shteamer, in Burning Ambulance.
-Nick Moy
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