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. up next artie's spotlight meets a jazz pioneer whose background in the blues gave him the inspiration to create some feel good fusion stay with us for that. hello again or welcome to the squad live interview show on our take i'll be in our event today my guest is chick corea. jazz was once called the music of the fact there's another one which i like better jazz or rather the blues it is when a good man feels that why things guest is neither his neither fact more sad but this part and he's one of the legends in jazz and a pioneer of jazz fusion one of his albums was called past present and future just so what does the future hold for jazz lovers his jazz idol of the present

grammy award winner chicory. at the age of just when your cheek started playing the piano influenced by his father just trumpet player he grew up immersed in the music and culture all the general consequently sent to study into music colleges he became bored by the theory and instead chose the path of good prize ation he seemed to become one of the stars of heaven garde jazz playing gigs with the greats such as miles davis together with the legendary trumpeter tricks talents all the birth of the jazz fusion movement during his career she has won fifteen grammy awards.

and welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being going to disappear . welcome to ask ya i love moscow well first of all this this album i just i just mentioned past present and future is this two thousand and one is it yes i'm going to when i was when i first saw it when i first heard i heard it and future this is something you says those papers you get when you buy oil is. this something to do with the way the future is i have no idea well futures is plural because it's not just one in one person's mind it's in all of our minds so futures you know my future my my friends' future your future and it's how we all see it when people are asked about well what the books are going to be in the

future you know where you can get as many different answers as there are people in country and i don't fortunately we have we still have passed in total two because it's something. different people see it differently. for instance was dedicated to my mother and she had just passed away right around that time when it was a dedication to her and so you know the whole history which to. well dignity which is really true. but the whole album was just. ok you know you pioneered as i mentioned. in the use of electronic instruments in music you like to experiment a lot with electronics but lately. as i have heard you prefer you prefer unplugged the gates is that true one well. it's not so much a preference as it is i actually do still both but there's an intimacy

about playing just the piano and it's my original instrument too with the piano and i love it and so. there's an intimate contact with the audience that can only be gotten that way but with electric with electric music for instance i have a new reunion tour this year with a new version of return to forever and i will definitely be plugged in. return to forever was the first album he ever published in russia it was released in the soviet union right and i got it i remember getting it when i was about fifteen or sixteen like that and there and. actually it was actually leave first ever jazz fusion album that they had that we had that was available in soviet russia how do you happen to who made it happen i don't know but i know that just

before that i would get letters and i would meet people who were friends of people in russia in russia and musicians and they had all passed around tapes sets that's what we did you know we can but at this point the regular. no no no no they. actually officially released that first recording which was my first record with return to forever and it was i thought wow this is great and you get the money for it you it was the do they pay you anything i don't think so no they shouldn't cause an official so we had mean you can collect. this roubles this is then soviet roubles they weren't as good as they are. ok now speaking speaking about as well. don't you think that today jazz is sort of a losing its original meaning to entertain people to need people to make people

feel better because because many people today think that jazz pop is for the people of pop music but just is like for the elite for the connoisseurs for fashion there are no people i think. and i do. it gets around but it's not really true actually all music i see is being a music that is intended to make people feel good i only use it put there are so many different tastes in music that's why it is different. you know life keeps changing jazz keeps changing everything is changing but the original intent changes which is the artist a musician wants to give something beautiful to the public here you spoke about playing musical electronic music but the the fact of today is that millions never hear your acoustic sound because whatever the here is the journal is in their i phones gameboy stations whatever it's heloc charnock so why do you play

before people hear it because electronic anyway so what's the use of playing because they would say it's always been a literally even when that needle was going around a lot on the vinyl it was still like tronic you know. it's just like i said. different ways of expression in different media now i myself personally use all of the digital sounds to listen to because they're very convenient and that's why people like it i think you carry around a little thing in your hand little song so forth you know when people when people play electronic instruments i think you said something like that too when some years ago but it gives us more possibilities it gives us more instruments with sound with the with special effects stuff like that but then you get back to to to to to do ordinary wooden piano does that mean that the possibilities this

instrument gives you like the guitar are unlimited i mean it's more than any other time device can give is that true well i think that the the unlimited thing that you're talking. it is not his and anything to do with the instrument has to do with woman's mind and imagination so if this is unlimited then whatever you touch is going to be unlimited it's the electric instruments have one use like a painter has takes this color that color uses oil he uses acrylic and uses crayons when it's a different medium so you have electric one medium you have all these different mediums but the unlimited mrs. will see. you you had several periods in your career at the tronic acoustic i thought of gardens a different types of and. as a matter of factness some of the albums sound like that then. but is there is there

a favorite period is there favorite style. period album. favorite album there's too many of them you know my favorite thing is the process i love the process and like for instance now is my favorite period because i'm i'm getting to do so many different things during the course of a year i have i have my piano solo i do duets like with gary burton and by being fair and i do different various kinds of trio work and then with the advent of the reunion of return to forever i now get to put a more rock kind of music together with stanley clarke and the boys and. i'm having a ball listen. many jazz musicians for some reason like interpreting monserrate oh what you know most certainly it's going to be. probably i don't know the most popular musician that ever lived in terms of numbers he certainly is in

terms of how many people have recorded in listen to his music how often it's played in person present they know the mobile phones and i'm telling you most was the guy and actually you know i personally love love his music is my fact i didn't invent recently where were i was asked to to do an improvisation on something by mozart because it's known that i love his music so i wanted my going to do i don't want to play a piano concerto on playing all by myself so i went to my mozart library and i found some songs that he wrote when he was five and six years old there are no songs it's to kids to change their compositions short with beautiful little gems and now would he so i chose one and it's this perfect little piece and i learned it and then began to improvise with it you know it is an attraction you

know he was he was the most popular musician might still be do you think he would have played jazz if he was actually. the end without a doubt and so many people agree with that he was an improviser and he was kind of a courageous guy he went against the king's wishes and wanted to have his own band and so forth so since he was a jazz man in the. early i believe so. what do jazz musicians in general get from classical music because jazz is supposed to be revolutionary jazz supposed to be against had but still the felt you like to turn to classical music for what for the jazz musicians in the classical musicians the orchestral musicians have one particular thing in common which which they both like fine fine music and they both take it very seriously house too. how to perform on their instrument like jazz musicians i learned

a great deal from classical pianist for instance in fact in fact one of my favorite classical pianist of all times a russian who's by me horowitz is one of the guys i also love glenn gould i love of an event he can sing who is a parent great pianist and i learn from them because they command their instruments so well and i think that classical musicians they listen to the jazz musicians and they see us like playing spontaneously and making songs up on the spot and improvising and they think like that they would like to do that too so there's a lot to be learned in the connection between classical musicians and jazz like for instance this summer i i i'm i'm recording in new york my second candle concerto and i've gathered together in new york thirty musicians who are classical players who are going to play my song says chicory a jazz idol time and grammy award winner spotlight will be back shortly right after

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welcome back to spotlight i'm older now than just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is chair korea jess legend and the grammy award winner. you. just before we took a break thought so. talking about the russian musicians that you've been listening to with the russian classical pianists can you say that russian music in general had any impact on you because i guess this would have been strange because you're an american and yet i mean you play jazz in america where jazz was born so so but still does that mean that some other music could have an impact on. you doesn't it have one of in and it always will what else do you need to do you know what i've every think i mean i don't when i listen to music and i i get attracted to the creativity of musicians so it's not the style so much. like for instance for

instance i sometimes i recently i came across two young young pianists like we're talking like thirteen years old fourteen years old and one is a guy from israel and israeli guy another guy there's a guy from tbilisi georgia who's now in new york and he said down and played for me and. it's inspiring and you have this fresh mind and it is unencumbered by. the usual why dears they haven't had time to be with you if you were fifteen sixteen fourteen year old kid play you get inspired is that the feeling he's going to be better than me do you have this fear you should kill him and i know i have to feel i want to hear him play someone i can steal everything that he does and i'm going to get inspired by the guy in fact i'm going to i'm going to make a duet with these guys and because i also want to help them and i also want to hang

with them i love i love that kind of spirit but that not only applies to young musicians it applies to every kind of knew we spoke about elton john earlier he's a favorite of mine going to a completely different kind of music i don't play music like him but like he does but i'm inspired by his songwriting and his singing. and is his message. with your music like yours of music had this influence even like a song for a guy it could have been one of your albums and forgotten. the south korea oh yeah ok well it is not as our people are in russia as it could be unfortunately some of the reasons are in a report by spotlight in the me there. while the first jazz bands in the us a socket as early as the nine hundred twenty s. the music was never quite accepted by the soviet regime and associated just with

the capitalist lifestyle forgettin the music originated in poor african-american communities even in the later years of the us a so when jazz musicians were no longer persecuted they still found themselves on the truth free of mainstream soviet art. after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. jazz in russia hardly manage to get beyond that there were three well names like armstrong and jew pellant on would certainly ring a bell with most russians wouldn't performance only known by a small number of devoted jazz fans and jazz had living gets unerring in russian t.v. radio stations mass media it is too preoccupied with the life of stars to change the situation young russian performance of jazz often decide in favor of music as it's an easier way to make believe there are only two days a year that jazz music makes headlines in russia it's one fans from across the

country folk to the other hundreds he stayed west of most of the jests festival the country's biggest open a jazz event has grown in popularity with more and more musicians from russia and the brood taking part but the first of all on. last weekend and for the rest of the year jason russian seems to be almost completely out of the limelight. all this is said is he did because because i know a lot and hundreds of people know what the right is a matter of fact this this young lady here to makes this one hundred jazz fest possible she's a fan of my work to get as news man. for a television news company so why do you think there are countries where jazz is like a religion and a countries like russia where jazz is just well sort of music that some people miss

and who you know and i don't think it's in my travels i haven't found it it's so different from country to country that might be different the scale the scale governmental rules but usually part music is part user and jazz music is usually relegated to a few people who like to be more adventurous with the leaders from all over the world thank you can me he can make real bucks in jazz is that right. make real big bucks i mean you meet well many would if you play money means nothing when it comes to jazz musician i think and i don't think that's a big deal i mean i'd make a good living and i know a lot of others all of the guys i play with we move we make enough money to be able to do what we like to do and i don't think it's our our job to make big bucks but more and more to continue to be able to to it's almost a trick what we do because because i wonder every night i go out in front of audiences and all these people turn up and i get to do exactly what's in my mind without any instruction from any higher authority and i like this for going to

producers are you a you're not that kind of slaves of your marriages and produces there's the pop pop guys. you know even pop guys it depends on how a musician makes up the masses. well what to say what to whatever where to go it's not my pain you just do it well you know when i had a normal life you were when i played with herbie man for instance in the sixty's in new york i was a young man i was twenty two years old or something like that and the man just was just starting a record label so he said chick come in come in make a record for me i said all great i've got this music i'm working on he said yeah but i'd like you to use a couple of the players and some tamales i said well no that's not my music kirby you know so i declined and he kept asking me and he kept saying don't just include a little cowbell or something and i said well that's not my and finally he said go

do what you want so i made my first recording doing what i wanted and i stayed that way for my life but what was wrong with me it was clear with. my eyes it was something different but well it's not the problem of the bell itself it's about whose idea it was your idea it would have been ok i didn't feel my music and movement ok pen you can you recall your first visit to the because because i like people people of your scale that have visited this soviet russia yeah and are still around yeah like the person is very different so some say it was ok something that was an awful communist tyranny country what do you recall was it ok it was a coup i had several days here and we were sponsored by the u.s. state department at the time i really eighty's and as the hartman i said it was nineteen eighty two eighty two eighty two and a little bit south of the school and we were told that there were no public

performances allowed so so the u.s. ambassador used to sponsor the holes here in moscow to invite russian people musicians and writers on the lawn and i think my first visit here was with. gary burton eventually playing with tonight and i found it to be a really exciting experience to meet finally some musicians from russia who i was i was able to talk to. you one said i quote the most important thing for me is to understand the musicians who i play with and question is that the reason why you've been playing with gary forty years because you do understand this well. i figured. if i have a good understanding of the musicians i work with and we have a good grip or. there's a lot of creativity happening between us and that's the product that is what people

are going to experience you see so i put i put my attention on that first because that's my product that's what my result. and that's why and also for me as a personal fulfillment it's how i learned more when you when you play your music in front of an audience what's the main thing for the south expression finding a common language with the audience and communication having fun for yourself or making people have fun can you pick one of these which is the most that we know because. they all apply it's not i think once again i like different colors i think that's one of the misunderstandings about this thing do you play for yourself or you play for the audience you can separate it out a person is not like that you like to make the whole. scene work you like to i like to do what i love to do i like to bring what i love to do to the audience and i

like to see them enjoy it too and so i make adjustments both ways and i mean if i were here's an example if i would play for you the music that i personally only me just love i think you'd walk out the room after the ten seconds but but i play i do. take a part of the music that i love and i put it in a way that i think people will be able to understand it because you want to be commercial because you want content because he really doesn't want to make people feel good and if i don't make people feel good with my music i've lost to teach music. not directly you know why because it's impossible to teach something you know they just never know i do most of my. teaching or whatever you want to call that kind of thing by just by example and i have one lesson that i tell everybody so my my my lesson is very short it's one sentence in fact and three words that it's something for yourself think for you. thank you thank you very much for being

with us ok and just to remind you that my guest today was to korea jazz legend dan grammy tell me what that's it for now from all of us you can always drop us a line and we'll try to divide the people that you like to spotlight will be back with more first time comment i don't want to going on and get outside question time so then take care and thanks for the stuff thank you for giving but.

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