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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...
...Newport, R.I., not New York. The nation's most famous jazz festival returns home Saturday for a brief three-day stint that will feature some of the biggest and best names in the business Among the acts, you'll be able to see Herbie Mann, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and George Benson, with many more of equal stature waiting in the wings. Although Newport is about two hours away by car (well, 90 minutes), and although the tickets for this gig are obscenely expensive, the scenery--Newport was to the late 19th century what Southampton...
Also out in left field, but also worth seeing, is the master of the keyboard, Keith Jarrett, at Tanglewood on the 4th. Finally, Chick Corea will be in town, at the Music Hall, Monday night...
...Chick Corea--With Gayle Moran at the Music Hall, Boston, Monday at 7:30. Tickets...