My Spanish Heart [Japan 2005]
Chick Corea - CD
- Artist: Chick Corea
- Format: CD
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 4988005386052
- Item Number: PID053860
- Release date: 04/04/2005
- 1. Love Castle
- 2. Gardens
- 3. Day Danse
- 4. My Spanish Heart
- 5. Night Streets
- 6. Hilltop
- 7. Sky
- 8. Wind Danse
- 9. Armandos' Rhumba
- 10. Prelude to el Bozo
- 11. El Bozo, Part I
- 12. El Bozo, Part II
- 13. El Bozo, Part III
- 14. Spanish Fantasy, Part I
- 15. Spanish Fantasy, Part II
- 16. Spanish Fantasy, Part III
- 17. Spanish Fantasy, Part IV
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My Spanish Heart [Japan 2005] by Chick Corea on CD
This 1976 release features Chick Corea in what was then, and remains, a unique musical setting. While it is truly an electric jazz fusion record, it is also the only solo recording of Corea's on which he attempted to truly explore the Latin side of his musical heritage. My Spanish Heart marks a full-scale, yet thoroughly modern, exploration in the musical lineage Corea sprang from. Making full use of synthesizer technology, a string section, and synth-linked choruses -- of two voices, his own and that of Gayle Moran -- as well as percussionist Don Alias, drummer Steve Gadd, a full brass section, and the sparse use of Jean Luc Ponty ("Armando's Rumba") and bassist Stanley Clark, Corea largely succeeded in creating a Spanish/Latin tapestry of sounds, textures, impressions, and even two suites -- "Spanish Fantasy" and "El Bozo." The string quartet performs its intricate and gorgeously elegant arrangements with verve and grace on "Day Danse" and on the suites, with Corea's contrapuntal pianism creating a sharp yet warm contrast to the shifting tempos, wild interval leaps, and shimmering timbral balances that occur. The only pieces that sound dated on this double-album-length set are the fusion pieces, which are, with their production and knotty stop-and-start modulations and key signature equations -- complete with aggressive arpeggios and scalar linguistics -- destined to be limited in expression by the voice of their use of technology. Thus, "Love Castles," "The Gardens," and "Night Streets" suffer from their rather cheesy production despite their tastefully done double fusion semantics (jazz to rock to Latin music). There is no doubt that Corea's musicianship was up to any task he chose at this point in time. Simply put, he was compositionally and intellectually at the top of his game, and this record, despite the many of his that haven't aged well, still surprises despite its production shortcomings. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi
- Artist: Chick Corea
- Format: CD
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 4988005386052
- Item Number: PID053860
- Release date: 04/04/2005
- Label: Universal Distribution
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Fusion, Post-Bop, Free Jazz
- Album Time: 67:33
- A.R.C.
- A.R.C. (Import)
- Again and Again
- Akoustic Band
- Akoustic Band [Japan 2003]
- Akoustic Band [Japan 2008]
- Alive
- Alive
- An Corea/Hancock
- An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea: In Concert
- Beneath the Mask
- Beneath the Mask
- Best of Chick Corea
- Change
- Chick & Lionel Live at Midem
- Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert (Zurich, October 28, 1979)
- Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert (Zurich, October 28, 1979)
- Chick Corea: Children's Songs
- Chick Corea: Children's Songs
- Chick Corea: Children's Songs (Import)
- Chick Corea: Spain; Piano Concerto No. 1
- Corea, Chick: Leprechaun
- Corea/Hancock [Japan]
- Crystal Silence [Box Set]
- Electric Chick
- Elektric Band [Japan]
- Expressions
- Expressions
- Expressions
- Eye of the Beholder
- Friends
- Friends
- Friends
- I Ain't Mad at You (Import)
- In Concert (Import)
- Inner Space
- Inner Space (Import)
- Inner Space [Bonus Tracks]
- Inside Out
- Inside Out
- Les Incontournables
- Light Years
- Live from Blue Note Tokyo
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
- My Spanish Heart
- My Spanish Heart
- My Spanish Heart [Japan 2003]
- My Spanish Heart [Verve] (Import)
- Native Sense: The New Duets
- Now He Sings Now He Sobs
- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
- Origin: Live at Blue Note
- Originations
- Paint the World
- Past, Present & Futures
- Past, Present & Futures [Japan]
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1 (Import)
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 2
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 2 (Import)
- Priceless Jazz
- Rarum, Vol. 3: Selected Recordings
- Rarum, Vol. 3: Selected Recordings
- Rediscovery On Grp: Chick Corea Family
- Remembering Bud Powell
- Rendezvous in New York
- Rendezvous in New York (Import)
- Return to Forever
- Return to Forever
- Return to Forever
- Return to Forever (Import)
- Return to Forever (Import)
- Secret Agent
- Septet (Import)
- Solo Piano Improvisations/Children's Songs
- Solo Piano: Originals
- Solo Piano: Standards
- Song of Singing [Japan]
- Sound of Jazz
- Spain; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Import)
- Sundance [Groove Merchant] (Import)
- Tap Step
- The Complete "Is" Sessions
- The Elektric Band
- The Enchantment
- The Leprechaun
- The Mad Hatter
- The Mad Hatter
- The New Crystal Silence
- The New Crystal Silence
- The Ultimate Adventure
- Three Quartets
- Three Quartets [Bonus Tracks]
- Three Quartets [Bonus Tracks]
- Time Warp
- To the Stars
- Tones for Joan's Bones/Mountain in the Clouds
- Trio Music
- Trio Music (Import)
- Trio Music, Live in Europe
- Trio Music, Live in Europe
- Trio Music, Live in Europe
- Very Best of Chick Corea [Argentina] (Import)
- Very Best of Chick Corea [Korea]
- Voyage (Import)
- Week at the Blue Note
- Akoustic Band
- Like Minds
- Like Minds
- Touchstone
- Live in Montreux
- The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (Import)
- On Two Pianos
- The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra
- Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1 (Import)
- Where Have I Known You Before
- Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
- Light as a Feather
- Crystal Silence
- An Evening with Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock (Import)
- Summer Night (Import)
- Light as a Feather [Japan 2003]
- Where Have I Known You Before
- CHICK COREA : CHICK COREA THOUSAND YEN JAZZ :BEST
- Light as a Feather [Japan 2006]
- Crystal Silence [Japan 2006]
- Duet (Import)
- Return to Forever (Import)
- Standards & More (Import)
- Light as a Feather (Import)
- Crystal Silence (Import)
- Expressions (Import)
- In Concert: Zurich, October 28, 1979 (Import)
- My Spanish Heart (Import)
- Friends (Import)
- An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea: In Concert (Import)
- The Elektric Band (Import)
- Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Where Have I Known You Before [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
- Where Have I Known You Before
- The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (Import)
- Hot House (Import)
- Where Have I Known You Before/No Mystery
- An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea: In Concert (Import)
- Orvieto
- Light as a Feather [Expanded] (Import)
- BURTON/COREA : CRYSTAL SILENCE
- Five Peace Band: Live
- Forever
- The Definitive Chick Corea on Stretch and Concord
- Hot House
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