Word: corea
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Wait, there's even more, as I turn to the back section of the file. It says here that Chuck Mangione will be at the Berklee Performance Center on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1; Chick Corea and Gary Burton today; Craig Russell will pretend to be your favorite female performer on Oct. 14 (again, if you can't afford the show, you can still see the movie "Outrageous" for considerably less...
...Chick Corea and Gary Burton--Berklee Performance Center...
There was a style for everyone: the cool sound of Pianist Bill Evans, 48, with his sophisticated classical harmonies; the loosely structured, rather chaotic-sounding "free" jazz of such revolutionaries as Ornette Coleman, 48, Cecil Taylor, 45, and Sam Rivers, 47. Master Pianists Chick Corea, 37, and Herbie Hancock, 38, were into "fusion" music, a blending of jazz with rock's electronic sound. A tribute to the Latin influence on jazz starred the formidable massed bands of Tito Puente and Machito. There was even a special last-minute entry: Irakere, a jazz-rock Cuban group whose members had been...
Pianists Hancock and Corea defend their fusion music as a logical extension of the jazz musician's fascination with sound. In 1973, when jazz was suffering the financial blues, Hancock had the idea of using the synthesizer's weird, spacey sound not with the complex experimental music that he was then making but with funk and rhythm-and-blues. It turned into Head Hunters, made up of more conventional music that "a lot of people liked." Corea went roughly the same route. His recent Mad Hatter album, a lush blend of strings that borders on background music...
...Chick Corea--With Gayle Moran at the Music Hall, Boston, Monday at 7:30. Tickets...