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Chick Corea: The Continents—Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra
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Artist
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Chick Corea, piano. Tim Garland, saxophone, clarinet & flute. Hans Glawischnig, bass. Marcus Gilmore, drums. Steven Mercurio, conductor, & others.
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Label
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Deutsche Grammophon
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Format
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2 CDs
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Runtime/Release Date
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71'44,67'38/2012
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Label Number
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B001644102
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Daedalus Item Code
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29127
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Titled after a 72-minute concerto for jazz quintet and chamber orchestra ("in the spirit of Mozart"), this two-CD release also includes a disc of 15 solo and small-group pieces preserved by the engineer and producer without the musicians' knowing their impromptu jam was being recorded. Among the highlights of Disc 2 are Billy Strayhorn's "Lotus Blossom," a resplendent version of "Blue Bossa" featuring the trombone of Steve Davis, and Corea's engrossing series of bagatelles called "Solo Continuum." "Africa is suitably rhythmic, Europe subtly Spanish (you expected Finnish?), Australia implicitly wild and overgrown, America cosmopolitan and breezy, Asia dark, lyric and exotic and Antarctica (what other jazz musician would take a shot at creating a musical portrait of the world's coldest climate?) gives you a musical home for jaunty penguins.... [The] miniatures caught on the fly by an astute bunch in the control room … give you, in their way, the truest portrait of Corea's creative unconscious."—Buffalo News
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