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CHICK
COREA, STANLEY CLARKE, LENNY WHITE
THE
POWER OF THREE
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Chick Corea piano, keyboards
Stanley Clarke bass, double bass
Lenny White drums
Miles
Davis’ electric bands in the late 1960s (featured on such classic albums as IN
A SILENT WAY and BITCHES BREW) served as the incubator for several pioneering
jazz fusion bands, including Tony Williams’ Lifetime, Herbie Hancock’s
Headhunters, John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, Joe Zawinul and Wayne
Shorter’s Weather Report and Chick Corea’s legendary Return to Forever, whose
lifespan stretched from 1972 to 1977.
After
Corea left Miles’ employ, he helped found the avant-garde acoustic quartet
Circle with saxophonist Anthony Braxton, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry
Altschul. But Corea sought a new, less-esoteric direction where he could
express his music to larger audiences—in a band committed to communicating the
purity of sound, the challenge of improvising on complex compositions and the
exploration of melding the jazz tradition with rock music. The time was ripe for
what followed.
Return
to Forever was that unit and for the brief five years they commanded the fusion
universe, expanding the language from funk-fueled electric rock-jazz, to the
acoustic quietudes of Corea's more classically-inspired pieces. After their
successful reunion tour last year, the harmonic convergence that Chick Corea,
Stanley Clarke and Lenny White felt has led to the formation of the jazz
supergroup, Corea, Clarke, & White.
With
the ever-expanding Corea ouevre at their fingertips and the incredible
improvisational skill and musicianship of all three jazz legends, this trio
soars through acoustic bliss, funky jazzitude, mind-expanding classical and all
worlds in between. Corea, Clarke & White are musical masters sending
audiences on sonic explorations of wondrous proportions.
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