LL/In Memoriam: Chick Corea: The Magician RIP

[C]

Ok then, if push comes to shove what is your fave RtF album.....?




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For at least the next thirty minutes it is Where Have I Known You Before, but in an hour's time it might well be Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy.

No Mystery is most excellent too.

I have a problem with the first two. Not for the music but Flora Purim's vocals

They spoil it for me





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[LMG]

I don't know about you guys, but I never rated the Al Di Meola solo albums


What you reckon?






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I have a double cd called Anthology that takes the best of them. It is good, but there is nothing to match any of these tracks.

[John aka Josh]

Lovely, intricate stuff.

Funny to think that when I was growing up, this was 'jazz', and was all the jazz people under thirty knew.

Yes, but at least it's a start for the kids

Zap, our eldest plays double bass - he's grade 6 and he is good but he only follows classical dots.

I have been trying to get him to play a bit of jazz. I might be getting somewhere - at last!






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Good news!




Such a shame there's no recorded evidence of players like Beethoven and Chopin improvising - sure I've read that Beethoven could improvise for an hour and half, holding his audience in rapt attention.

[John aka Josh]

Ok then, if push comes to shove what is your fave RtF album.....?




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For at least the next thirty minutes it is Where Have I Known You Before, but in an hour's time it might well be Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy.

No Mystery is most excellent too.

I have a problem with the first two. Not for the music but Flora Purim's vocals

They spoil it for me





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Spot on!

The vocals spoil it.

[LMG]

Ok then, if push comes to shove what is your fave RtF album.....?




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For at least the next thirty minutes it is Where Have I Known You Before, but in an hour's time it might well be Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy.

No Mystery is most excellent too.

I have a problem with the first two. Not for the music but Flora Purim's vocals

They spoil it for me





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Somewhere I have this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Return-Forever ... sic&sr=1-4

Every time I play it the puzzlement on my face is a remarkable thing to behold.

It was not cheap, either.

[C]

Such a shame there's no recorded evidence of players like Beethoven and Chopin improvising - sure I've read that Beethoven could improvise for an hour and half, holding his audience in rapt attention.

Did you ask Bill & Ted....?

Most audacious





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[LMG]

Lovely, intricate stuff.

Funny to think that when I was growing up, this was 'jazz', and was all the jazz people under thirty knew.

Yes, but at least it's a start for the kids

Zap, our eldest plays double bass - he's grade 6 and he is good but he only follows classical dots.

I have been trying to get him to play a bit of jazz. I might be getting somewhere - at last!






.

Good news!




Such a shame there's no recorded evidence of players like Beethoven and Chopin improvising - sure I've read that Beethoven could improvise for an hour and half, holding his audience in rapt attention.

I have a couple of bootlegs on a Russian label. One of them is spoilt by audience coughing throughout.

[John aka Josh]

Such a shame there's no recorded evidence of players like Beethoven and Chopin improvising - sure I've read that Beethoven could improvise for an hour and half, holding his audience in rapt attention.

Did you ask Bill & Ted....?

Most audacious





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Missed opportunity.

[LMG]

Such wags we are!

[John aka Josh]

Yes, but at least it's a start for the kids

Zap, our eldest plays double bass - he's grade 6 and he is good but he only follows classical dots.

I have been trying to get him to play a bit of jazz. I might be getting somewhere - at last!






.

Good news!




Such a shame there's no recorded evidence of players like Beethoven and Chopin improvising - sure I've read that Beethoven could improvise for an hour and half, holding his audience in rapt attention.

I have a couple of bootlegs on a Russian label. One of them is spoilt by audience coughing throughout.

Always the way with Russian bootlegs.

[C]

Somewhere I have this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Return-Forever ... sic&sr=1-4

Every time I play it the puzzlement on my face is a remarkable thing to behold.

It was not cheap, either.

I remember that.

I have the single album with this cover



I think, a couple years later (?) they released a six(?) album version





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[C]

I have a couple of bootlegs on a Russian label. One of them is spoilt by audience coughing throughout.

Always the way with Russian bootlegs.

it's the vodka




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[LMG]

Is it just me, or does this track lean a bit more towards 'filler' than in the direction of 'blowout finale to a terrific album'?

Don't mean to be a wet blanket.

[C]

My only criticism of this album is that Chick should have played more piano and less synth

There. I have said it!




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[LMG]

Somewhere I have this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Return-Forever ... sic&sr=1-4

Every time I play it the puzzlement on my face is a remarkable thing to behold.

It was not cheap, either.

I remember that.

I have the single album with this cover



I think, a couple years later (?) they released a six(?) album version





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I think it was four LPs, and my CD set has all of them.

Really disappointing for reasons mentioned.

[C]

Is it just me, or does this track lean a bit more towards 'filler' than in the direction of 'blowout finale to a terrific album'?

Don't mean to be a wet blanket.

No, I feel the same





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[C]

Stanley's bass playing is amazing on this track





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[C]

I think they are trying to do a Mahavishnu on this track and slightly lack the credentials.....





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[LMG]

Is it just me, or does this track lean a bit more towards 'filler' than in the direction of 'blowout finale to a terrific album'?

Don't mean to be a wet blanket.

No, I feel the same





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To give them their due, putting this stuff together must have been hellish.

There is a very fine line between virtuoso and full of music on the one hand and self-indulgent and full of hubbard on the other...

[C]

It's a very good album though





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