CHICK COREA

CHICK COREA
ELEKTRIC BAND (1986)
320 KBPS

If you want to hear the Elektric band, this is the album you just have to hear first! This album is the essence of everything Corea's trio was and probaly will be. Besides just completely sounding straight out of the 1980's, the possibly worst decade for music; this album, musically is just fantastic. Obviously the acoustic and straight ahead fans won't like this, and right from the title most of them are turned away. I was one of them. But then I got into this little thing called fusion and found out that over time, that it evolved in such a way to produce great albums like this. The Chick Corea Elektric Band was one of those colorful jazz groups in the 80's to just turn on nice melodic jazz/rock/pop/fusion music. No matter how the critics and jazz purists try to catogorize this into flimsy worthless jazz idioms, I must say, as a lover of jazz of any kind (excluding that awful R&B influenced popular radio deamed as 'smooth jazz') I aboslutely love the music on this disk. All musicians were top notch at the time, and went on to become great successers. Chick is absolutely spoken for as John Pattitucci and Dave Weckl prove to be two of jazz's greatest rhythm team players. King Cockroach will always be my favorite. And India Town has one of those distinctive melodies. Overall, the album is just a nostalgic trip through the 80's, but never-the-less, it's great jazz!

1. City Gate
2. Rumble
3. Side walk
4. Cool Weasel Boogie
5. Got A Match?
6. Elektric City
7. No Zone
8. King Cockroach
9. India Town
10. All Love
11. Silver Temple

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