they're. very. dynamic. to do for a. month. watching archie locker moscow here's a recap of the stories we're covering today libya's national transitional council is given a seat at the u.n. after the security council adopts a new resolution but also ease of sanctions imposed during that office regime but libya's new authorities are still fighting for control over song cities including gadhafi is hometown of syria. meanwhile there's another bid for u.n. recognition with the palestinian president vowing to launch a bid for statehood despite and u.s. promise to veto with all that so some israeli westbound sutler say they're ready to

leave the area but that their government won't allow them. and a growing tension a service border with breakaway costs of both but the standoff in disputed checkpoints following their seizure by calls of a police helped by nato and e.u. forces local serbs have walked the roads leading to crossings of protest against what they called unilateral action of constables i'll be. a lot next hour to spotlight needs a jazz idol who's your thing for experimentation gave birth to a new genre that's coming your way next on artsy. hello again or welcome to the spotlight the interview show on our take i'll bring our vent today my guest is chick corea. jazz was once called the news eco of the facts there's another one which i like better jazz or rather the blues is when

a good man feels that mike this guest is neither he is neither fact nor sad but this part and he is one of the legends in jazz and applying it to jazz fusion what it is our use of the cold past present and future just so what does the future hold for jazz lovers his jazz idol the present grammy award winner career. at the age of just when your cheek started playing the piano influenced by his father a jest trumpet player and grew up at your mercy in the music and culture of the general consequently sent to study into music colleges he became bored by the theory and instead chose the path of compromise ation he seemed to become one of the stars of evan garde jazz scene playing gigs with the greats such as miles davis together with the legendary trumpeter cheeks 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 good to disappear. welcome to moscow 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 and. yes i get that when i was when i first saw it when i first heard that. futures is something you says those papers you get when you buy oil is. that those that do this something to

do with the 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 well what what's it going to be in the future you know we'll see it so you can get as many differences is there are people and i don't fortunately we have we still have passed in total two because some. 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 doesn't mean. the whole album was just it's ok you know you pioneered as i've mentioned.

in the use of bill tronic instruments in music you like to experiment a lot with tronics but lately. as i have heard you prefer you prefer unplugged the gigs 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 through so 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 richer and of river metal definitely will be plugged in. return to forever was the first album you ever published in russia it was released in the

civil right and i got it i remember getting it when i was about fifteen or sixteen like that and there and i actually it was actually leave first ever jazz fusion album that they had had that we had that was available in soviet russia how did happen who made it happen i don't know but i know that just before that i would. and i would meet people who were friends of people and write in russia and musicians and they had all passed around tapes and cassettes that's what we did you know we can but at this point the record label. no no no. actually we 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 it was time to do they pay you anything i don't think so no they sure it was an official servant i mean i can collect. its rules those those then soviet

rubles they weren't as good as they are. ok and now speaking speaking about jazz well don't you think that today jazz is sort of a losing its original meaning to entertain people tell needs people to make people feel better because because many people today think that jazz is for the people i pop music big guess is like for the elite for the con a serious professional there are no people i think. and i do. it gets around but it's not really true actually how music i see is being a music is intended to make people feel good about our music but there are so many different tastes in music that's why there are different styles of you know life keeps changing jazz keeps changing everything is changing but the original intent i think never 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 they hear is digital is in their i phones gameboy stations whatever it's electronic so what have you play before people hear it becomes electronic anyway so what's the use of playing because they would say it's always going to look tronic 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 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 in your hand a little so forth you know when people when people play electronic instruments i

think you said something like that too when some years ago like it gives us more possibilities it gives us more instruments with sound with the with special effects stuff like that but then you get that two two two two three an ordinary wooden stick piano does that mean that the possibilities this instrument gives you all that they're just a guitar are unlimited i mean it's more than any other time device can give is that true well i think that 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 in imagination so if this is unlimited then whatever you touch is going to be on limited it's to be 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. you see in. you you had several periods in you know in your career. trying to coast think i had a garden is a different types of and. 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 my favorite thing is the process i love the process and life 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 camera so 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 not sorry oh well you know i'm not certain 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 present present day than all the mobile phones and i'm telling you. it was the guy and actually you know i personally love love as 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 if i one of my going to do i don't want to play a piano concerto i'm 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 that still tends to just sit well there compositions short ones but beautiful little gems and melody so i chose one and it's this perfect little piece and i learned it in and then began to improvise with it and now it is an attraction you know he was he was the most popular musician night still be do you think you'd have played jazz if he was actually we get 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 i get from classical music because jazz is supposed to be revolutionary chance supposed to be guests at but still the film you like to turn to classical

music for what jazz musicians and classical musicians the orchestral musicians have one particular thing in common which in 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 the russian it was why me horowitz is one of the guys i also love glenn gould i love of any event he can sing who's a current great pianist and i learn from them because they command their instruments so well and i think the 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 they 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 the summer i i i'm i'm recording in new york my second kind of concerto 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 idle time and grammy award winner spotlight will be back shortly right after the break so stay with us we'll continue in less than a minute. wealthy british. explicitly. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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welcome back to spotlight i'm milder now than just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is korea gas legend and a grammy award winner. you. just before we took a break start talking about the russian musicians that you've been listening to the russian classical pianist can you say that the. can general had any impact on you and that because this would have been strange because you're an american and you know i mean you play jazz in america where the jazz was born so so but still does that mean that some other music can have an impact of having gone wrong it doesn't it has one of the and it always will what else do you need to have

everything and i didn't i don't when i listen to music and i get attracted to the creativity of the 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 is a guy from tbilisi georgia who's now in new york and they said down and play it for me and. it's inspiring and you have this fresh mind that is unencumbered by. the usual ideas they haven't had time to be given to you in ways fifteen sixteen fourteen 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 him and you know i have the feeling i

want to hear him play someone 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 that kind of spirit and that not only applies to young musicians it applies to every kind of 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 his and his message. but your music like maybe yours his music had this influence even know who you. like a sulfa guy it could have been one of your albums are you and for that. of. the south korea oh yeah well jazz 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 saw a paid as early as the nineteenth twenties the music was never quite accepted by the soviet regime 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 that there were three well names like armstrong and duke ellington with certain the ring a bell with most russians wouldn't perform was only known by a small number of devoted jazz fans and jazz had live a good scenario in russian t.v. radio stations best media too preoccupied with the life of the stars to change the

situation young russian performers of gas can decide in favor of polka music as it's an easier way to make a living only two days a year jazz music makes headlines in russia it's one fans from across the country flock to the other hundreds the estate west of most for the jazz 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 look on lost so weekend and for the rest of the year has in russia seems to be almost completely out of the limelight. well this is sad isn't it dave because because i know a lot and hundreds of people why develop as a matter of fact this this young lady in the makes this one hundred jazz festival possible she's a fan of my work together as newsman. for 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 listened and 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 were usually part user because part user and jazz music is usually relegated to a few people who like to be more adventurous with little to all over the world that you can me you can make real books and jazz is that right and what make real big bucks i mean you meet will many would if you played on 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 put more and more to continue to be able to to it's almost

a trick what we do because because i'd 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 film going to 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 depends on how a musician they talk to me this is the way i have to say you want to whatever where . you just do it well you know when i had a normal life you would. when i played with herbie man for instance in in the sixty's in new york i was a young man i was twenty two years old or something like that and herbie man job was just starting a record label so he said sure come in come make a record for me i said oh 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 and he kept asking me and he kept saying well just include a little cowbell or something and i said well that's not my you can finally say 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 it was his idea my as it was something good for well it's not the problem of the bell itself it's about who's idea if it was your idea it would have been ok i didn't fit my music at the moment ok pin you can you recall your first visit to the youth because because i like costume people people of your scale that have visited this soviet russia yeah and are still around yeah like this person is very different so some say it was ok but something you know that was an awful communist tyranny country what do you recall was it ok i was a cool i had several days here and we were sponsored by the u.s.

state department at the time and really eighty's ambassador hartman i said it was nineteen eighty two eighty two eighty two and god he was south of the school and we were told that there were no public performances allowed so so the u.s. ambassador used the spot so holds here in moscow to invite russian people musicians and writers on the look and i think my first visit here was with gary burton and usually when playing with tonight and i found it to be really exciting experience to meet finally some. musicians from russia who i was i was able to talk to. you once 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

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 match the product that is what people are going to experience 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 well can you pick one of these which is something most people know because. they all apply it's not i think 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 and 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 and 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'd personally only me just love i think you'd walk out the room after ten seconds but but 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 or you. 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 not only jazz no no 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 let something for yourself think feel so great thank you thank you very much for being with us ok and just a reminder that my guest today was to korea jazz legend and grammy award winner that's it for now from all of us here you can always drop us a line and leave try to invite the people you like into the spotlight will be back with more for a comment i don't want to going on in and outside rush until then take care and thanks for all the stuff thank you for giving us much.

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