''The Chick Corea Elektric Band'' is an album by

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and

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keyboard player

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...

, released in 1986. It is the eponymous debut album of the

Chick Corea Elektric Band Chick Corea Elektric Band was a jazz fusion band, led by keyboardist and pianist Chick Corea and founded in 1986 in New York City. The band was nominated twice at the Grammy Awards. The sixth band album, a tribute one named ''Chick Corea Elektric ...

, which at that time also featured drummer Dave Weckl, bass player

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and guitarists Scott Henderson and Carlos Rios. This album can be described as "

jazz-rock Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyb ...

", though it is much closer to traditional jazz than the jazz-rock albums of the 1970s. The keyboard sounds on the album are typical for the mid-1980s. The drums played by Dave Weckl dominate the album's sound, with the guitar duties split between Scott Henderson and Carlos Rios. The album features a heavy use of

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and

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, expanding on Corea's previous work in later lineups of

Return to Forever Return to Forever was an American jazz fusion band that was founded by pianist Chick Corea in 1972. The band has had many members, with the only consistent bandmate of Corea's being bassist Stanley Clarke. Along with Weather Report, The Headhu ...

and reflecting the technology of the time when it was conceived and recorded.

Track listing

All songs by Chick Corea except where noted otherwise. #"City Gate" – 0:54 #"Rumble" – 4:04 #"Side Walk" (

/ Dave Weckl /

) – 3:48 #"Cool Weasel Boogie" – 6:43 #"Got a Match?" – 5:38 #"Elektric City" – 4:07 #"No Zone" – 5:29 #"King Cockroach" – 6:56 #"India Town" – 5:06 #"All Love" – 5:45 #"Silver Temple" – 8:32 (Tracks #1, #10 & #11 were not included in the original issue of the album)

Personnel

– synthesizer programming, Fender Rhodes electric piano

-ed to Yamaha TX816 rack-mount synthesizer units (1, 4, 6–8, 10, 11), Yamaha KX-88

keyboard/Yamaha TX816 rack-mount synthesizer units (1–3, 6–9, 11),

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(2, 3, 7),

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(2–4, 7),

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(2–4, 6, 7), Yamaha KX-5

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synthesizer controller/Yamaha TX816 rack-mount synthesizer units (5),

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(6), Yamaha GS-1 (7),

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/Yamaha TX816 rack-mount synthesizer units (8, 9),

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(8, 9) * Scott Henderson – guitars (1, 8, 11) * Carlos Rios – guitars (3, 4, 6) *

– Smith/Jackson

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(1, 5, 8, 9, 11), Fender Jazz four-string bass guitar (6, 8), Pollman acoustic/double bass (4, 7, 10) * Dave Weckl – drums, Simmons electronic drums (1–3, 6, 7, 9),

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(1, 3, 7-9, 11), percussion (2) Additional musicians * Rory Kaplan – synthesizer programming, Fairlight CMI programming * Bo Tomlyn – DX voice creation * Rhett Lawrence – LinnDrum consultant

Production

* Ron Moss – executive album producer *

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– executive producer * Larry Rosen – executive producer * Chick Corea – producer * Bernie Kirsh – associate producer, recording, mixing * Joe Hesse – recording manager * Larry Mah – assistant engineer * Ira Rubnitz – assistant engineer, mix assistant, overdubbing * Gary Wagner – assistant engineer *

Bernie Grundman Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer. He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and Mi ...

– mastering at

Bernie Grundman Mastering Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer. He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and Mi ...

(Hollywood, California) * John Rusko – technician maintenance * Rory Kaplan – keyboard technician * Evelyn Brechtlein – project coordinator, studio manager * Julie Moss – project coordination assistant * Marc Meisenheimer – production manager * Mike Manoogian – cover logo * Andy Baltimore – creative director, art design * David Gibb – art design * Dan Serrano – art design * John David Moore – black and white photography * Glen Wexler – color photography

Chart performance

References

External links

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