One of the to a greater extent than remarkable aspects of artist/stan-getz-mn0000742899">Stan Getz's 1972 masterpiece is precisely how organic he was able to hold the sound. The band surrounding artist/getz-mn0000742899">Getz on this Columbia appointment was led past times artist/chick-corea-mn0000110541">Chick Corea with his artist/return-to-forever-mn0000463527">Return to Forever (electric) bassist artist/stanley-clarke-mn0000745316">Stanley Clarke, drummer artist/tony-williams-mn0000791318">Tony Williams, together with Brazilian master copy percussionist artist/airto-mn0000609992">Airto. With the exception of artist/clarke-mn0000745316">Clarke, all the residue had played with artist/miles-davis-mn0000423829">Miles Davis inwards his then-experimental electrical bands. artist/corea-mn0000110541">Corea's artist/return-to-forever-mn0000463527">Return to Forever was precisely getting itself off the fusion ground, spell artist/williams-mn0000791318">Williams had been with artist/john-mclaughlin-mn0000223701">John McLaughlin together with artist/larry-young-mn0000134393">Larry Young inwards artist/lifetime-mn0000264572">Lifetime on top of his sense with artist/davis-mn0000423829">Davis. But brand no mistake, this is a artist/stan-getz-mn0000742899">Stan Getz record, his gorgeous tenor tone furiously together with fluidly playing through all of artist/corea-mn0000110541">Corea's hard changes on artist/corea-mn0000110541">Corea's Latin carnival jam, "La Fiesta," together with shapeshifting his agency through agency changes on "Five Hundred Miles High." The nucleus for the bedrock of artist/return-to-forever-mn0000463527">Return to Forever was inwards the artist/getz-mn0000742899">Getz laboratory of extended complex harmony together with a strict adherence to melodic improvisation. artist/billy-strayhorn-mn0000359199">Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" is the infinite inwards which artist/getz-mn0000742899">Getz teaches the band almost dynamic, texture, together with ambience -- he fifty-fifty has artist/clarke-mn0000745316">Clarke bowing his bass. This band, combining every bit it did the restlessness of electrical jazz with artist/getz-mn0000742899">Getz's trademark stubbornness inwards adhering to those principles that made modern jazz thence great, made for a tension that came pouring out of the speakers with neat usual honour shining forth from every cutting -- peculiarly the steamy Latin-drenched championship track. Captain Marvel is arguably the finest recording artist/getz-mn0000742899">Getz made during the 1970s. All Music.
By the fourth dimension Stan Getz recorded Captain Marvel with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams, together with Airto Moreira, he had been inwards the music work organisation for nearly 30 years, together with was widely revered every bit world-class jazz instrumentalist with a unique tenor sax voice. Getz began his career during the big band era, together with cutting his teeth with bandleaders every bit various every bit Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, together with Woody Herman. H5N1 leader of swinging minor groups throughout the '50s, Getz spent around fourth dimension inwards Europe next a career disruption caused past times long-standing drug problems. He returned to the USA inwards fourth dimension to aid sustain the Brazilian jazz-bossa craze, recording a serial of albums with Joao Gilberto together with married adult woman Astrud Gilberto that remain with the most pop jazz recordings of all time. Getz continued to operate together with tape at dwelling identify together with abroad throughout the 1960s, but past times the destination of the decade together with the start of the next, things were changing rapidly. Traditional post-bop jazz was on the ropes, together with at that spot were a lot of novel sounds inwards the air, many of them thank y'all to Miles Davis together with his amazingly talented coterie of immature sidemen. Getz was interested inwards putting together a novel mass of tunes for his render to New York next a European stay.
Chick Corea, a immature pianist who had cutting his teeth with Miles Davis's commencement electrical bands, recorded a duet of amazing trio dates nether his ain name, together with and then moved on to cast the avant-garde improvisational grouping Circle, was inwards the procedure of writing for together with forming a novel band that would travel known every bit Return to Forever. The grouping would expand on Davis's moves toward electrical music together with musical forms that communicated to a greater extent than straight with the listener than the abstract jazz of the belatedly 1960s. Corea together with Getz crossed paths, together with the take in of forming a quintet with Getz took hold. Corea brought along percussionist Airto Moreira together with twenty year-old bass phenom Stanley Clarke. Rehearsals began, but according to the original liner notes past times Albert Goldman, the projection wasn't quite jelling until Getz brought inwards drummer Tony Williams. Corea's reminiscences inwards the novel liner notes advise that he brought the entire grouping to Getz, which makes sense since Corea together with Williams had known each other for around time, fifty-fifty earlier they played together with Miles. In whatsoever event, the band worked out the arrangements together with opened at New York City's Rainbow Room to wild acclaim together with lines of potential listeners outside. Following the engagement, that grouping went into the studio together with recorded Captain Marvel, long acknowledged every bit i of the best jazz recordings of the '70s together with a render to cast for Getz. Sony Legacy has at nowadays reissued the album, remastered together with with 3 additional tracks that solely add together to the album's legendary status.
Corea composed v of the half dozen tracks on the original album, together with that fact says much almost both Corea every bit a composer together with Getz every bit a mature artist who knew talent when he heard it. There are many other artists who would non demand hold felt comfortable recording the compositions of another, younger instrumentalist together with allowing their immature band thence much room on something of a "comeback" album, but Getz was never an artist subsumed past times ego, preferring instead to practise whatever was necessary to render the best musical sense possible. It also didn't wound that the pieces themselves had a heavy Latin flavor, which lent itself good to Getz' propensity for rhythmic improvisation, nor that Corea's soaring melodic lines allowed Getz the chance to utilize his beautiful, romantic tenor tone inwards their service.
"La Fiesta" became a mainstay, non solely inwards Return to Forever's book, but inwards the books of virtually every big band out there. Maynard Ferguson together with Woody Herman had arrangements, every bit did every minor working jazz ensemble at the time. Alternating betwixt a paso doble together with a bright, major-key tune that is every bit catchy every bit a Top-40 pop song, it's an irresistible slice that right away creates goodwill betwixt musicians together with audience. Clarke roams at volition across the lower hit of the group's audio spell Williams keeps the measuring with an almost unbelievable energy, fusing the vigor of flamenco together with the unexpected accents of bebop with the exciting drama of rock.
Corea's Fender Rhodes operate is transcendent on the entire album. The solely instrumentalist with every bit fully developed a innovation of the electrical pianoforte was Herbie Hancock, but the agency the 2 pianists approached the musical instrument was worlds apart. To Corea the instrument's really audio connoted magic, together with the fullness together with beauty of the tones he wrings from it could non demand hold been done with an acoustic piano. He's the perfect foil for Getz, both supporting him together with driving him frontward without always becoming intrusive. The commencement bonus track, a functioning of the Corea ballad "Crystal Silence", shows how this novel electrical musical instrument could profoundly expand the linguistic communication available to jazz keyboard players. In the incorrect hands, of course, it could travel cloying, but Corea is i of the best to always play the instrument. The alternate versions of "Captain Marvel" together with "Five Hundred Miles High" demo that this band was creating at a high level, together with that the improvisation undertaken past times Getz together with Corea, inwards particular, was everything that jazz music had always been together with should be. In short, the fact that Getz was recording with a grouping of musicians who were leading jazz inwards the direction of fusion did goose egg to alter his distinctive style. Though he was updating his audio together with using the music of the 24-hour interval every bit a springboard, he was inwards no agency attempting to only practise something that seemed stylish at the time. Captain Marvel was a Stan Getz album because Getz was the nominal "leader" together with the solely horn actor here, but ultimately this was a collaborative album past times a grouping of musicians who were highly attuned to each other, together with that is why the album has endured, together with nevertheless sounds fresh today, around 30 years since it was recorded. past times Marshall Bowden.
Prior to forming the innovative fusion band Return To Forever, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke together with Airto Moreira served valuable apprenticeships with tenor legend Stan Getz. On this hot classic these 4 stellar players joined with ex-Miles Davis drummer Tony Williams together with brought Getz into the electric-jazz era with a powerful kick. The master copy highlight is the earth-shaking romp through Corea's up-tempo Latin groove "La Fiesta", with the pianist conjuring images of Barcelona tabular array dances together with Getz pouring on the burn downwardly with a fresh novel vigor. Some of Getz' subsequent electrical albums (such every bit "Children of the World" on Columbia) were sodden, meandering efforts with few stimulating moments, but "Captain Marvel" documents a neat band with the tenorman on the threshold of novel discoveries. H5N1 must-have. By Todd Jenkins.
Track listing
All compositions past times Chick Corea except every bit noted.
01 "La Fiesta" – 8:21
02 "Five Hundred Miles High" – 8:09
03 "Captain Marvel" - 5:06
04 "Times Lie" – 9:46
05 "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:26
06 "Day Waves" – 9:39
Bonus tracks:
07 "Crystal Silence" - 7:47
08 "Captain Marvel" - 5:18
09 "Five Hundred Miles High" - 9:29
Personnel
Stan Getz – tenor saxophone
Chick Corea – electrical piano
Stanley Clarke – bass
Airto Moreira – percussion
Tony Williams – drums
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