Word: corea
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Suspicions and resentments between industrialized and developing countries vastly complicate the economic problems; even some of the basic facts are in dispute. The New York Times recently reported that experts from both industrial and less-developed countries-from Algeria to New Zealand-have advised Secretary General Gamani Corea of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development that there is no statistical proof that raw materials prices have failed to keep pace with the prices of manufactured goods over the past 25 years. The implication-unpalatable to the U.N.'s Third World majority-is that the industrial nations have...
...what a varied bunch they are. Corea's group, Return to Forever, favors high, light, sugary sonorities and palpitating Latin rhythms. The six-man combo Weather Report, with Shorter on sax, plays with the sweep and sonic power of a full symphony orchestra. Cobham manages to mass his colors with a big-band kind of majesty yet retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory...
Even in so broad a musical spectrum-part nostalgia, part status quo, part innovation-the jazz rockers are a stylish group apart. That is due as much as anything to the fact that most of them-Pianists Hancock and Chick Corea, Guitarist John McLaughlin, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Drummer Billy Cobham-are graduates of the Miles Davis band, where the movement got off the ground back in 1970 with Davis' first all-out fusion of jazz and rock, the double LP album Bitches Brew...
Harvard University Jazz Band. The Jazz Band will offer a free concert including Chick Corea's "Spain" and Chuck Mangione's "Klee Impressions," featuring trombonists Carl Fontana and Phil Wilson. Arrangements by other top jazz bands are on the bill. Monday, April 29 at Sanders Theater, 8:15 p.m., free...
...that the Mahavishnu Orchestra has collapsed, some sort of mantle must fall to Return to Forever. Miles is unreliable, the others too esoteric. Corea has the answer; controlled improvisation, and a foundation that's as solid as rock...