Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure (2005)
Artist: Chick Corea
Title Of Album: The Ultimate Adventure
Recorded 2005
Release Date: Feb 07, 2006
Label: Concord
Genre: Jazz / Fusion / Contemporary Jazz / World Fusion
Quality: FLAC (image + Cue + Log + scan + Info)
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 73:07
Total Size: 513 Mb
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AMG:
For the second time in two years, Chick Corea has assembled a band to give aural illustration to the fantasy
writings of L. Ron Hubbard. For those who have trouble with Hubbard and his teachings, this may be a red
flag to avoid the record altogether. The Ultimate Adventure is a tale that draws on characters from the Arabian
Nights — there is an ad for the book in the back of the CD booklet. With that out of the way, one has to deal
with the music entirely on its own terms. Corea has spent decades playing both electric and acoustic jazz.
This is the first time since 1976′s My Spanish Heart that he has woven his love of both so completely into a single
album. There are more than a few echoes here that call upon the ghosts of the earliest Return to Forever
band — primarily in the gorgeous flute playing of Hubert Laws and Jorge Pardo, in the saxophone artistry of Tim
Garland, the drumming of Steve Gadd, and the percussion wizardry of not only Airto Moreira, but also of Hossam
Ramzy — just to name a few of this album’s players. But as always, it’s Corea’s compositions and playing that
make or break any of his outings. This one is complex, knotty, and contains nuevo flamenco sketches and exotic
melodic grooves and rhythms from “North Africa” and the Middle East. The second part of the opening suite
“Three Ghouls” — which makes it ghoul number two, apparently — showcases Corea on the electric piano and
electronic percussion with Laws playing soulful and slightly funky. His flute gets double-tracked as it floats above
Moreira and bassist Carles Benavent. It’s spacey, airy groove is intoxicating. It morphs into the knotty percussive
and slightly “out” part three, where palmas — handclapped rhythms — by Corea, Gadd, and Benavent are contrasted
to the dissonant acoustic piano and funky Rhodes woven side by side in counterpoint. This stands in contrast to
the electric, short, fused-out, three-part suite entitled “Moseb the Executioner.” The first part is a tangled mix up
of Garland and Corea’s Rhodes. It ends in a percussion orgy by Moreira and Ruben Dantas with palmas by the
entire band. There are gorgeous melodic interludes in “North Africa” courtesy of Pardo and Corea.
“Flight from Karoof” is simply a fusion gem. Ultimately, Ultimate Adventure works extremely well; it’s inspired,
takes chances, and is compositionally a small wonder. Above all, it sounds like Corea and his band had a ball
making it. Recommended for fusion-heads.
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Track Listing:
1.Three Ghouls Part 1
2.Three Ghouls Part 2
3.Three Ghouls Part 3
4.City of Brass
5.Queen Tedmur
6.El Stephen Part 1
7.El Stephen Part 2
8.King & Queen
9.Moseb the Executioner Part 1
10.Moseb the Executioner Part 2
11.Moseb the Executioner Part 3
12.North Africa
13.Flight From Karoof Part 1
14.Flight From Karoof Part 2
15.Planes of Existence Part 1
16.Arabian Nights Part 1
17.Arabian Nights Part 2
18.Gods and Devils
19.Planes of Existence Part 2
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Personnel:
Chick Corea (keyboards, electronic percussion);
Paco De Lucia (flamenco guitar);
Hubert Laws, Jorge Pardo (flute);
Carles Benavent (bass guitar);
Steve Gadd, Tom Brechtlein, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums);
Airto Moreira, Hossam Ramzy, Ruben Dantes (percussion).
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