This album tin hold out described equally "jazz-rock", though it is much closer to traditional jazz than the jazz-rock albums of the 1970s. The keyboard sounds on the album are typical for the mid-1980s. The drums played past times Dave Weckl dominate the album's sound, alongside the guitar duties dissever betwixt Scott Henderson together with Carlos Rios.
The album features a heavy purpose of FM synthesis, MIDI together with drum programming, expanding on Corea's previous run inwards after lineups of Return to Forever (band) together with reflecting the applied scientific discipline of the fourth dimension when it was conceived together with recorded.
Chick has a long history of reinvention — non to the lowest degree of which was the stunning high-velocity jazz-rock of Return to Forever. In 1986, after a long catamenia of high-profile, to a greater extent than oftentimes than non acoustic collaborations, Chick assembled the Elektric Band, a plugged-in unit of measurement then tight together with flawless that it reinvigorated jazz for a novel generation. Their offset album, The Chick Corea Elektric Band, is a stunner: from the opening flourish of “City Gate,” Chick was clearly announcing a novel direction. The lineup of immature masters — Scott Henderson together with Carlos Rios on guitar, bassist John Patitucci together with drummer Dave Weckl — exactly inhabit Chick’s novel compositions, creating 2nd classics out of tunes similar “Got Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Match?” together with “Elektric City.”
Chick Corea's Elektric Band's offset disc is the tape which formally introduced the bass virtuoso John Patitucci together with awe-inspiring drummer Dave Weckl to the world. Patitucci's six-string electrical bass technique together with Weckl's crystal build clean drumming acrobatics would teach the materials of legend together with the sparkle inwards the eyes of beat department students from this indicate forward. Unlike almost keyboardists at the time, Corea approached the synthesizer equally an private instrument--not equally an electrified piano. As a result, this group's audio was much richer together with to a greater extent than creative than similar ensembles of the day.
On "Rumble," Corea's furious fingerings are matched note-for-note past times Weckl's purpose of drum machines together with electronic sounds to practise a kaleidoscopic backdrop. In contrast, the subdued "Cool Weasel Boogie" displays a softer side to the machines together with sampled sounds. The almost impressive rails is "Got Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Match?" Blisteringly fast alongside jaw-dropping solos past times all, this melody cemented the group's condition amid musicians the footing over. The unique "King Cockroach" features a squeamish blend of Corea's nimble playing, guitarist Scott Henderson's soaring tones together with the Weckl/Patitucci beat machine. In all, at that spot is fiddling wonder why this band all but defined non bad electrical jazz inwards the '80s.
Track listing
All songs past times Chick Corea except where noted otherwise.
"City Gate" – 0:54
"Rumble" – 4:04
"Side Walk" (Chick Corea/Dave Weckl/John Patitucci) – 3:48
"Cool Weasel Boogie" – 6:43
"Got a Match?" – 5:38
"Elektric City" – 4:07
"No Zone" – 5:29
"King Cockroach" – 6:56
"India Town" – 5:06
"All Love" – 5:45
"Silver Temple" – 8:32
(Tracks #1, #10 & #11 were non included inwards the original number of the album)
Personnel:
Chick Corea (keyboards, synthesizer, programming)
Scott Henderson , Carlos Rios (guitar)
Bo Tomlyn (voice box)
John Patitucci (electric bass, 6-string bass)
Dave Weckl (drums, percussion)
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