(crítica) CD Review: Chick Corea's The Ultimate Adventure

February 07, 2006
Tim Gebhart
The Ultimate Adventure
Chick Corea
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It's hard to find a jazz idiom in which pianist Chick Corea has not only dabbled, but mastered. Whether playing straight ahead ensemble jazz, soloing with his own piano compositions and improvisations, helping lead the 1970s fusion movement, heading up avant-jazz groups or collaborating with any number of world-class musicians to produce his own and group recordings, Corea has rightfully earned a reputation as one of jazz's most potent artists.

Yet even with 12 Grammy Awards to his name, Corea has never rested on his laurels or locked into one style for extended periods of time. His philosophy seems to be to always move forward, to always explore, to always innovate. That philosophy comes out in his latest release, The Ultimate Adventure. Joined by such stalwarts as Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira, drummer Steve Gadd and flutist Hubert Laws (to name a few), the album is the second of Corea's inspired by the fiction of L. Ron Hubbard. (Yes, if you must ask, Corea is a Scientologist.)

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