The Musician (3 CD & Blu-ray box-set in Hardcover Book)
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CHICK COREA: THE MUSICIAN
3 CDs and a Blu-ray in a deluxe hardcover book
$99 $69
TWELVE COPIES REMAIN · THIS EDITION IS OUT OF PRINT
In November 2011, Chick turned seventy. He booked the Blue Note for the entire month.
November 1 to 27. Ten different bands. More than forty performances, two shows a night — fifty years after he first turned up in Greenwich Village.
Return to Forever, unplugged, with Stanley Clarke and Lenny White. The classic Elektric Band with John Patitucci, Dave Weckl, Eric Marienthal and Frank Gambale. The Five Peace Band with John McLaughlin. Herbie Hancock. Bobby McFerrin. Gary Burton with the Harlem String Quartet. Marcus Roberts. Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. A band called From Miles, with Eddie Gomez, Jack DeJohnette, Wallace Roney and Gary Bartz. And Flamenco Heart, with Buika singing.
Somebody filmed all of it.
On the title
He could have called it anything. In the documentary, John McLaughlin says the thing that explains the choice:
“‘Leader’ is a tricky word. No really good leader ever wants to be a leader.”
— John McLaughlin
And Chick, on how he does it:
“The way I’ve learned to be the best at that is to only do it when others don’t. I just pick up the loose ends. That’s what I consider that I do.”
— Chick Corea
A man who assembled ten bands in twenty-seven days, describing himself as someone who picks up loose ends. He didn’t call it The Legend. He called it what he was.
“That’s what the story’s about. It’s about musicians, being musicians. When people ask me, ‘What did you learn from Miles?’, that’s the salient thing that I took from my experience. Miles just let his musicians be themselves. He let them be musicians.”
— Chick Corea
What’s included
- Deluxe hardcover edition
- 3 CDs — around four hours of music from the residency
- Blu-ray of the feature-length documentary, 96 minutes
- Essay by Robin D. G. Kelley
- Exclusive photographs from the month
Selections
CD 1
Return to Forever Unplugged — 1. Captain Marvel · 2. Light As A Feather
Chick Corea Trio — 3. I Hear A Rhapsody
Five Peace Band — 4. Spirit Rides · 5. Special Beings
Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin Duet — 6. I’ve Got The World On A String · 7. Spain
CD 2
Chick Corea & Gary Burton with The Harlem String Quartet — 1. Overture · 2. Your Eyes Speak To Me (feat. Gayle Moran Corea)
From Miles — 3. If I Were A Bell · 4. Nefertiti
Flamenco Heart — 5. Zyryab · 6. Mi Nina Lola
CD 3
Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin Duet — 1. CC’s Birthday Blues (feat. Wynton Marsalis) · 2. Caravan
Chick Corea & Marcus Roberts Duet — 3. Hot House · 4. Dolphin Dance · 5. Cantaloupe Island
The Chick Corea Elektric Band — 6. Ritual · 7. Silver Temple
Blu-ray
Chick Corea: The Musician — documentary feature, 96 minutes
“He’s not just a musician, he’s music.”
— Buika, who sang with Flamenco Heart that month
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