Chick Corea + Origin – A Week At The Blue Note (1998) (6CD BoxSet)
EAC Rip | 6CD | FLAC - Log - Cue | Cover & Booklet Scans | Release: 1998 | 2.34 GB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Stretch Records

This six-CD set has its origin, no pun intended, in pianist Chick Corea's desire to go live with an acoustic band that needed absolutely no studio gimmicking or afterthought. In that spirit, he debuted the xxxtet, which features Corea alongside alto saxophonist Steve Wilson, tenor saxophonist Bob Sheppard, trombonist Steve Davis, bassist Avishai Cohen, and drummer Adam Cruz, with music from one evening in this stretch on one CD. Even further in the spirit of unedited performances, Corea has here packaged the complete sets from three of the Blue Note nights. The xxxtet is in fine form, pivoting off Corea's sometimes avant-leaning pieces with great intimacy and sureness. Wilson's alto solos are each densely intelligent and modular, studying small nodes and rearranging them continually. There are also great moments where Sheppard and Wilson double on bass clarinet and E-flat clarinet, making for on-the-spot textural studies. The six CDs are built out of largely the same tunes, each taken at least twice over the course of this box set. In addition, the tunes are lengthy, with plenty of exploratory room, making for awesome solos all the way around. For fans of Corea's sharp distillation of impressionism, bebop architecture, and avant-garde nuances, this set is a must-buy. And it has the earmarks of a great all-encompassing digest, not unlike the nine-CD Art Pepper Complete Village Vanguard box set.
(Andrew Bartlett from Amazon.com)



Tracklist:

Cd 01

01.Say It Again Part 1 (1:35)
02.Say It Again Part 2 (0:52)
03.Double Image (15:54)
04.Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (9:59)
05.Bird Feathers (13:47)
06.Say It Again, Part. 1 (1:31)
07.Say It Again, Part. 2 (0:58)
08.Tempus Fugit (17:11)

Total Time 01.01.47




Cd 02

01.Hand Me Down (13:27)
02.Soul Mates (9:15)
03.Matrix (19:14)
04.It Could Happen To You (15:29)
05.Dreamless (13:36)

Total Time 01.11.02




Cd 03

01.Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (10:25)
02.Bird Feathers (14:49)
03.Say It Again, Pt. 1 (1:00)
04.Say It Again, Pt. 2 (1:00)
05.Tempus Fugit (17:03)
06.Hand Me Down (14:55)
07.Molecules (12:36)

Total Time 01.11.47




Cd 04

01.Sifu (15:14)
02 Matrix (22:38)
03.Say It Again, Pt. 1 (1:33)
04.Say It Again, Pt. 2 (1:16)
05.Double Image (19:00)

Total Time 00:59:40




Cd 05

01.Blue Monk (12:54)
02.Sifu (11:24)
03.Molecules (12:14)
04.Straight, No Chaser (14:01)
05.Say It Again, Pt. 1 (1:37)
06.Say It Again, Pt. 2 (1:08)
07.Four (19:49

Total Time 01:13:09




Cd 06

01.Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (11:56)
02.Hand Me Down (14:45)
03 Four In One (14:39)
04.Matrix (13:08)
05.Double Image (18:07)

Total Time 01:12:35