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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...
...COREA's strongest point is persistent use of the synthesizer as an extension of the piano, rather than as a gimmick. He uses it without wasting its potential and also without abusing it. But the core of any discussion of the man is his range. Corea absorbs and transmits ideas on the run. "Captain Senor Mouse" had that Latin infusion of style and tone, a lightness of attack and a notion of exploration. The feeling, finally, is that his piano work was nothing more than a dance through a field of potential notes, with stops at notes chosen randomly...
...byword was a consistent brilliance. Good moments flowed like good frames in a film: Corea's recreation of a grandfather clock's movement in "Children's song #1;" an integrated drum solo, drums laid over the bass line for the first time in my memory; Stan Clarke's bass solo in "Bass Folk Song," and all his work on acoustic bass. Clarke plays bass as an equal member, not as a supporter. He attacks a solo from the viewpoint of a lead instrument, rather than expanding techniques of support. And there was Bill Connors's nice classically acoustic intro...
...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...