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Unfortunately, these promotional details are the most interesting things about this epic live recording. Columbia has packaged these records as an event, a happening of lasting musical significance, but the music represented here does not justify their extravagance. Chick Corea and company pulled out all the stops for their Spring 1977 tour of North America--they even carted along a full brass section and a concert grand piano--and their Boston appearance was sensational. But as so often happens, this performance lost much of its magic in the translation to vinyl...
...uncooperative audience. Unaccompanied solos are punctuated with cries of "Boogie!" and "Get down;" the performers were repeatedly forced to wait for the audience to relax so they could continue playing. The album does capture some of the uniqueness of RTF live--the Rach-maninoff fanfares and showtunes that Corea improvises as incidental music--but there is enough garbage noise to make the entire project vaguely irritating...
...Chick Corea and Gary Burton--Berklee Performance Center...
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...