''Time and Chance'' is the third studio album by the

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band

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, released in 1978 on

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. The album rose to No. 29 on the ''Billboard''

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chart.

Critical reception

Alex Henderson of

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wrote "As strong as

and

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were, neither album made Caldera a big name in the jazz-fusion world; nor did the band's third album, Time and Chance. Quite possibly, a lot of the fusion lovers who were craving

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, and

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in the 1970s would have appreciated Caldera as well if they had been exposed to their music. But the band never caught on and only had a very small following. You can't blame that on Caldera's material, for the writing of Jorge Strunz and

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is excellent on this LP. The band's imaginative nature is hard to miss on instrumentals that range from the flamenco-influenced "Mosaico" and the optimistic "Revivisence" to the Al Did Meola-ish "Horizon's End."

Track listing

Personnel

* Jorge Strunz — acoustic guitar, electric guitar *

— acoustic piano, electric piano, synthesizers, Moog, Roland, Oberheim Polyphonic, Yamaha Polyphonic * Steve Tavaglione — flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone * Mike Azeredo — congas, percussion *

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— drums * Greg Lee — electric bass, Moog bass pedals * Hector Andrade — timbales, congas, percussion

Guests

* Larry Dunn — synthesizer (track 8) * Roberto da Silva — drums (track 8 only) *

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— drums (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9) *

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— bata, conga and timbales (track 9 only) * Akim Robert Davis — bata (track 9 only) * George del Barrio — acoustic piano (track 4 only), electric piano (track 5 only) * Charles Faris — digital aquasonic modulator (track 8 only) * Dianne Reeves — background vocals (tracks 8 only) * Michelle Wiley — background vocals (tracks 8 only) * Ella Faulk — background vocals (tracks 8 only)

References

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