This early on offshoot of the Chick Corea Elektric Band turned out to last i of 1988’s almost pleasant surprises. Patches was yet supposed to last cutting his teeth, non chewing through the jazz charts to divulge one. And acre GRP was busy establishing itself equally the jazz label of the novel digital age, their acumen inward letting John Patitucci run complimentary too therefore before long paid off. The bass guitar, historically, is non a rich avenue of musical exploration; depression tones larn lost too the tricks (funk slap, fuzz tone) are oft like shooting fish in a barrel double axels. The starting fourth dimension John Patitucci disc is different yesteryear design, too you lot tin give cheers the folks at Smith/Jackson for it. The Smith/Jackson 6-string featured on the forepart embrace is played on all but a handful of tracks equally a Pb guitar. The fluid, sputtering, tripping, richly rendered sounds that emanate from this six-stringed appendage are a root of wonder throughout. Patitucci also plays an acoustic upright too literally “bows” to his electrical flow employer, Chick Corea, on “Zaragoza.” With Dave Weckl on drums, this is an Akoustic/Elektric session at its heart too person one-half of the time. Double synthesizers (John Beasley, Dave Witham) give the music a modern border non dissimilar the starting fourth dimension Elektric album, though JP the Composer isn’t nearly equally restless or chatty equally Chick. The music is also really much inward business amongst GRP’s build at this point: polish jazz amongst simply about edges, balladeering too barnstorming. Highlights include the opening “Growing,” “Baja Bajo” too a yoke of tracks featuring Michael Brecker on tenor sax (“Peace & Quiet Time,” “Then & Now”). I wasn’t expecting a coming-out party this early, but Patches is clearly besides large a talent to last contained. Based on this disc alone, his is a unique too interesting vox inward the modern melodic/rhythmic fusion movement.
Stepping out from the shadows of artist/chick-coreas-mn0000110541">Chick Corea's Elektric too Akoustic bands, artist/patitucci-mn0000188776">Patitucci made a pleasing solo debut hither largely on the forcefulness of his vivid up-front soloing on electrical too acoustic basses. Adept at the pop funk slapping trend on electrical bass, darting fluidly too jaggedly upward high on the Smith/Jackson five-string bass, artist/patitucci-mn0000188776">Patitucci ever executes amongst the moves too trunk English linguistic communication of a bass thespian fifty-fifty when his musical instrument is upward inward the guitar range. artist/patituccis-mn0000188776">Patitucci's compositions are pretty good, too, thoughtful too non besides reliant upon jazz-rock cliches. He gets a lot of skillful assist from a diverseness of hot sidemen, including the astonishing artist/chick-mn0000110541">Chick himself (who also produced the package), artist/chicks-mn0000110541">Chick's drummer artist/dave-weckl-mn0000939549">Dave Weckl, other drummers similar artist/peter-erskine-mn0000842492">Peter Erskine too artist/vinnie-colaiuta-mn0000714156">Vinnie Colaiuta, too the heated tenor sax of artist/michael-brecker-mn0000390239">Michael Brecker. Without a doubt, this starting fourth dimension opus enhanced artist/patituccis-mn0000188776">Patitucci's developing reputation at the time.
Track listing
All songs composed yesteryear John Patitucci unless otherwise noted.
01 "Growing" – 4:38
02 "Wind Sprint" – 6:10
03 "Searching, Finding" – 5:09
04 "Baja Bajo" (Chick Corea, John Patitucci) – 5:49
05 "Change of Season" – 3:57
06 "Our Family" – 3:05
07 "Peace too Quiet Time" – 5:02
08 "Crestline" – 5:17
09 "Zaragoza" (Chick Corea) – 4:00
10 "Then & Now" – 5:44
11 "Killeen" – 5:21
12 "The View" – 5:37
Personnel
John Patitucci – bass
John Beasley – synthesizer
Dave Whitham – synthesizer
Chick Corea – piano
Michael Brecker – saxophone
Dave Weckl – drums
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
Peter Erskine – drums
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