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Chick Corea - Three Quartets















Artist: Chick Corea

Title: Three Quartets

Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios,

Los Angeles, California in January & February 1981.

Release Date: 28 Feb 1997

Label: STRETCH RECORDS

Number of Discs: 1

Genre Jazz

Style:Progressive, Jazz Mainstream,

Jazz Post-Bop, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument

Source: Original CD





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Personnel



Chick Corea (piano);

Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone);

Eddie Gomez (bass);

Steve Gadd (drums).





Tracks:



1. Quartet No. 1

2. Quartets No. 3 & 2

3. Part 1 (Dedicated To Duke Ellington)

4. Part 2 (Dedicated To John Coltrane)

5. Folk Song

6. Hairy Canary

7. Slippery When Wet

8. Confirmation







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review



This encounter between Chick Corea (sticking to acoustic piano), tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, bassist Eddie Gomez, and drummer Steve Gadd lives up to one's expectations. The original program featured three lengthy "quartet" pieces, including sections dedicated to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. The CD reissue adds four briefer pieces that were previously unissued, including an unaccompanied Brecker workout on "Confirmation" that would be perfect for "blindfold" tests. This blowing date is highly recommended for all true jazz fans. [The Japanese release offers the same four bonus tracks that the American release does: "Folk Song," "Hairy Canary," "Slippery When Wet," and "Confirmation."> ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide



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First things first! On track 8, the mind blowing "Confirmation", it is actually Chick playing the drums, as is stated in the liner notes. If you listen to the drumming on that track, you will be able to notice that, although it is definitely Steve Gadd's kit that is being used, the drummer is not Gadd, and therefore is Chick actually manning the drums! Never woulda guessed.....

Now as for the rest of this album, it moves me on a different level. One can just tell that these guys were all in the moment and on the same page with eachother. As I write, I find it hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about this album that makes me feel this way, and all I can offer is that these musicians just MEANT what they were playing in every note.

Quartet No. 1 opens is a great opener, and has two distinct sections to it, the first one Brecker solos on, the second is mainly Eddie's time. Quartet No. 3 comes next, and this is probably my favorite composition on the album. In the first two minutes alone, one hears three different melodies and themes developed, all of which are excellent and thoroughly developed, and the song hardly looks back from then on in. Gomez again shines brightly on this track. Quartet No. 2 parts 1 and 2 come as tracks 3 and 4, respectively. The first part is dedicated to Duke Ellington, a towering enough figure on the piano. However, listen to the first minute or two of this track and you'll be hard pressed to find more soulful piano playing anywhere--this is the stuff that could bring tears to your eyes of pure joy and respect. Part 2, dedicated to Coltrane, opens with Gadd playing the melody out on his kit and the song develops into the highest energy song on here- rousing bop at its best. Chick and Brecker are incredible here, let alone Gadd's one true solo on here. I am a drummer (one incredibly inspired by Gadd), and have no problems with Gadd getting only one solo in the 39 minutes time span of these Quartet songs, for I feel he is often at his best comping behind another soloist. However here, Gadd's solo is so well developed and makes for great analytical material for those who like to transcribe.

The Last four songs on here were not part of the original Three Quartets album, and rightly so. I have no qualms with these songs, they are all consistently high quality, BUT they definitely are not up to the quality of the first four tracks, which is why Chick did not have them on the original album. For that, these songs are a little disappointing on here, but that's just because the first four songs are so good that it becomes almost impossible to top that. Were these 4 tracks found on another album, then the light shone on them would make them much more appealing. Folk Song is actually quite good. It has a theme which is repeated and developed upon several times. Same goes for both Hairy Canary, my least favorite on here, and Slippery When Wet, which has a rather distinctive 4 bar theme played over and over for the 6 minute duration. Like mentioned earlier, Brecker and Chick go for a work out on the Bird's Confirmation, which is very entertaining for is 6:15 duration.

In all, if you care for bop at all, then this album is a must. I cannot say enough good things about this album, and it is one of my top 5 favorite albums of my personal collection.