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a now vulnerable occupied territory settlements. and up next artie's spotlight meets a jazz idol who's your name for experimentation gave birth to a new genre that's coming up. hello again or welcome to spotlight on our take algren our vent today my guest is chick corea. jazz was once called the music of the facts there's another one which i like better jazz or rather the blues it is when a good man feels that mike this guest is neither he is neither fact nor sad but this part and he's one of the legends in jazz and applying it of jazz music when it is out because it was told to cost present and future years 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 a just trumpet player you grew up in merced into 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 seems become one of the stars of the cabin garde jazz scene 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 fifty grammy awards.

chicken welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us again. welcome to moscow yeah i love moscow well first of all this this album i just i just mentioned past present and the future is this two thousand and one is that yes i'm going to when i was when i first saw it when i first heard that. future is something so those papers you get when you buy oil is. that those that did something to do with it one 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 what what's it going to be in the future

you know with so you can get as many different answers is there are people and unfortunately we have we still have passed in a little too 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. well didn't achieve. it but the whole album was this it's 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 gates is that true why 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 to it's like i started out 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 metal definitely plugged in. return to forever was the first album you ever published in russia it was released in december right and i got it i remember getting it when i was about fifteen or sixteen and and i actually it was actually leave first ever jazz fusion album that they had had that wheel that was available instead of it russia how did it happen 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 and musicians and they had all passed around tapes and cassettes that's what we did you know we can't use it but at this point the record label. actually officially released that first recording which was my first record with return to forever and it was i thought wow this is great to get some money for it did you there was a do they pay you anything i don't think so no. official servant i mean can collect. as rubles. themselves get roubles they weren't as good as they are. ok and now speaking speaking about jazz well they don't you think that today jazz is sort of a losing its original meaning to turn to tame people to need these people to make people feel better because because many people today think the jazz that pop is for

the people of pop music the just is like for the elite for the connoisseur professional there are no i think. and i do. it gets around but it's not really true actually all all music i see is being a music that is intended to make people feel good and our own music but there are so many different tastes in music pets why they are different. you know life keeps changing jazz keeps changing everything is changing but in the original intent there were changes which is the artist the musician wants to give something beautiful to the public here you spoke about playing musical and trying to music but the the fact of today is that millions never hear your acoustic sound because whatever the hear is this little is in their i phones game boys and play stations whatever it's elektra onic says so what do you play before

people here it becomes electronic anyway so what's the use of playing a customer who would say it's always been a lecture on it even when that needle was going around on the vinyl it was still like chronic you know. it's just like i said. different ways of expression in different media and now i myself personally use use of 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 phone and 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 with special effects stuff like that but then you get back to tend to turn ordinary wooden piano this that means that the possibilities this instrument

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

there is there a favorite period is there favorite style or favorite album. favorite album there's too many of them you know i might 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 the 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 men with the advent of the reunion of return to forever i now get to put a more raw 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 nazri oh my you know mozart mood so 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 and listen to his music how often it's played in present present day no the mobile phone i'm telling you not was the guy and actually you know i personally love love his music is my fact i did in the band recently where were i was asked to do an improvisation on something by mozart because it's known that i love his music so i found one of 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 the tunes to change saying well they're compositions short with beautiful little gems and melodies 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 the he was the most popular musician might still be do you think he would have played jazz if he was actually. without a doubt 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 and get from classical music because jazz is supposed to be revolutionary chances to be against bad but still but still you like to turn to classical music for what the jazz musicians and classical musicians the orchestral musicians have one particular thing in common with 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 pianists for instance in fact in fact one of my favorite classical pianist of all times a russian who's why me horwitz is one of the guys i also love glenn gould i love event kids and who is a current great pianist and i learn from them because they command their instruments so well and i think the classical musicians very listen to the jazz musicians and they say yes like i'm 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 came looking certo and i've gathered together in new york thirty musicians who are classical players who are going to play my song says chick corea jazz idol of our time and grammy

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welcome back to spotlight i know we're not and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is chair korea gas legend and a grammy award winner. chick you. just before we took a break starts talking about the russian musicians that you've been listening to the russian classical pianist can you say that russian music in general had any impact on years ago because 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 the wrong it does and it has and it always will what else do you need to do you know what i have everything and i mean i don't when i listen to music and 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 he's really got another guy who is 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 is unencumbered by. the usual ideas they haven't had time to be going through you were fifteen sixteen fourteen you know can't play you get inspired is that the feeling he's going to be better than me do you have this feel you should kill them and i know i have the feeling i want to hear him play some more than i can steal everything that he does and 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 the kind of spirit of god not only applies to young musicians it applies to every kind of new 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 miss. hired by his songwriting and his is his message. with your music like yours of music had this influence even elton john like a sound guy it could have been one of the albums and it was sung for guy. over. the subject area oh yeah ok well yes it is not as ocular in russia as it could be unfortunately some of the reasons are in a report by spotlight little to me there. while the first jazz bands in the us aside paid as early as the nineteenth twenties

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 periphery of mainstream soviet art. after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. jazz and russia hardly managed to get beyond the refinery well names like armstrong and duke ellington would certainly ring a bell with most russians wouldn't perform was known by a small number of devoted jazz fans jazz had living gets unerring in russian t.v. radio stations best media it is too preoccupied with the life of stars to change the situation young russian performers of gas often decide in favor of folk music as it's an easier way to make a living there are only two days

a year jazz music makes headlines in russia it's when fans from across the country folk are hundreds they'd west of most of the jess festival the country's biggest open a jazz event has grown in popularity with more and more musicians from russia and the group taking. but the first of all don't last the weekend and for the rest of the year cheers in russia seems to be almost completely out of the limelight. well this is sad isn't it. because because i know a lot and hundreds of people why divide is a matter of factness this young lady in the makes this one hundred page jazz festival possible she's a fan of my work together as news men. for a television news company so why do you think there are countries where jazz is like a religion and to countries like russia where jazz is just well sort of music that

some people listened to 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 as music is usually relegated to fewer people who like to be more adventurous with the letter to all over the world that you can me you can make real books and jazz is that right to. make real big bucks i mean you meet will many would if you play for money means nothing when it comes to jazz musician i think and i don't think that's a big deal i mean i've made a good living and i know a lot of others all of the guys i play with we we make enough money to be able to do what we like to do and i don't think it's our object to make big bucks 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 as producers are you you're not that kind of slaves of your managers and produces there's the pop pop pop the good guys. you know even pop guys it depends on how. a musician they tell me this is the way i like to say what to whatever where. you just do it well you know when i had normal life you were where when i played with herbie man for instance even in the sixty's in new york i was a young man i was twenty two years old or something like back in the man job 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 something about these i said well no that's not my music kirby you know so i declined and he kept asking me and they kept saying well just include a little cowbell or something and i said well that's not them i. finally said go do

what you want so i made my first recording doing what i wanted and i stayed that way for my wife what was wrong with me it was kind. of my as it was something different well it's not the problem of the bell itself it's about who has idea if it was your idea it would have been ok i didn't fit my music and movement ok can you can you recall your first visit to use the song because and i like people people of your scale that have visited this soviet russia yeah and are still around like this person is very different so some say it wasn't ok but something you know that was an awful communist tyranny country what do you recall was it ok it was a coup i had several days here and it was sponsored by the u.s. state department at the time i'm fairly eighty's ambassador hartman i said it was nineteen eighty two eighty two eighty two and he would be called and we're told

that there were no public performances allowed so so the u.s. ambassador used to smile so holds here in moscow to invite russian people musicians in right here the look and. i think my first visit here was a look airy bird and 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 the game three years because you do understand this well. i figure that. if i have a good understanding of the musicians i work with and we have a good report. there's a lot of creativity happening between us then 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 one of 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 sofa expression finding a common language with the audience and communication having fun for yourself or making people have had well can you pick right of these which is the most know because. they all apply it's now i think i like different colors i think that's one of the misunderstandings about this thing you play for yourself when you play for the audience you can't separate that out of 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 were to play for you the music that i personally only me just love i think you'd walk out the room after ten seconds but the. but i i play i 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 knows i want to make people feel good and if i don't make people feel good with my music i've lost teach music. not directly you know why because it's impossible to teach something the only way jazz now you 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 it's three words yet it's something for yourself i think for you. thank you thank you very much for being with us ok

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