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border with breakaway kossovo tonight the standoff at disputed checkpoints following the seizure by cost of a police helped by nato the e.u. forces local services block the roads leading to crossings in a protest against what they call the unilateral action of course of those old lady . make starts the spotlight meets a jazz side lose yearning for experimentation gave birth to a whole new genre. hello again or welcome to spotlight on our take i'll bring our event 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 why things guest is neither he is neither fact nor sad but

this part and he is one of the legends in jazz and a pioneer of jazz music one of his albums was called past 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 one or she started playing the piano influenced by his father a jess trumpet player and grew up immersed in the music and cultural the gender consequently sent the study into music colleges he became bored by the theory and instead chose the path of compromise ation he seems become one of the stars of the album garde jazz cd playing gigs with 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 three t.v. grammy awards.

and welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us appear. you're welcome tosca ja 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 as it is and yes something when i when i first saw it when i first heard i heard a. few changes is something he says those papers you get when you buy oil is. that those that do 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 see it when people are asked to well what what's it going to be in the future you know it's so you can get as many different answers is there are people and and unfortunately we have we still have passed in plural 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 it was a dedication to her and so you know the whole history. well dignity wasn't only true. but the whole album was just it's ok you know you pioneered as i also mentioned as. in the use of electronic instruments in music you like to experiment

a lot with tronics but lately. as i have heard you prefer you prefer unplugged 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 of playing just the piano and it's my original instrument to 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 return to forever metal definitely will be plugged in. return to forever was the first album he ever published in russia it was released into the 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 in soviet 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 who were in russia and musicians and they had all passed around tapes and cassettes that's what we did you know we can't really 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 this is great to get some money for it did you it was going to do they pay you anything i don't think so no. official certainly don't mean they can collect. this rubles those then soviet rubles they weren't as good as as they are. ok and now speaking speaking

about jazz well they don't you think that today jazz is sort of the losing its original meaning to turn to taking people to needs people to make people feel better because there's many people today think that jazz that pop is for the people the pop music videos is like for the elite for the connoisseurs of professional there i don't think 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 and i only use it but there are so many different tastes in music that's why various different styles of you know life keeps changing jazz keeps changing everything is changing but the in the original intent of the changes which is the artist the musician wants to give something beautiful to the public here you spoke about playing music or electronic

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 gameboy play stations whatever it's tele tronic so whatever you play before people hear it becomes electronic anyway so what's the use of playing because that would say it's always been a luxury or even when that needle was going around a lot on a 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 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 a 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 the special effects stuff like that but then you get back to to to to turn ordinary wooden piano this is that mean that the possibilities this instrument gives you like an acoustic guitar are unlimited i mean it's more than any other term device can give is that true well i think. the unlimited thing that you're talking. it 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 electric 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 misses. we see. you had several

periods in your career at the tonic acoustic i think gardens in 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 or favorite album. favorite album there's too many of them you know mike 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 by being fair and i think 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

my story oh well you don't want certain moods 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 in listen to his music how often it's played in person presentation. i'm telling you not nor 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 if i want to 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 that still teens teen just smile their compositions short with beautiful little gems and melodies so i chose one and it's this perfect little piece and i learned it in 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. 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. and what do jazz musicians in general get from classical music of jazz is supposed to be revolutionary chances to be against and that's still the thrill you like to turn to classical music for what for the jazz musicians and classical musicians the orchestral musicians have one

particular thing in common which. both like fine fine music and they go 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 a 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 even he considered who is a current 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 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'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 son says chick corea jazz idol time and grammy award winner spotlight will be back shortly after breaks and stay with us we'll continue in less than a minute. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many so it's not just about the there it's about needs to. be mammogram and ya got to see. santa. at sea. and land. and accede. to things. needed.

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from violent against widespread long term and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. welcome back to the spotlight i'm now going to have in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is chuck korea gas legend and grammy award winner. chick you. just before we took a break start talking about the russian news issues that you've been listening to the russian classical pianist can you say that russian music in general had any

impact on year because this would have been strange because you're an american and you know i mean you play jazz in america where jazz was born so so but still does that mean some other music could have an impact either gone wrong it does and it has long ago and it always will what does 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 musicians 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 in playing 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 if you were fifteen sixteen fourteen year old kid playing you get inspired is that the feeling he's going to be better than me do you have this thing you should kill 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 because. i also want to help them and i also want to hang with them i love i love the kind of spirit but that not only applies to young musicians it applies to every kind of mean we spoke about elton john earlier he's a favorite of mine in a completely different kind of music i don't play music like him but what he does but i'm inspired by his songwriting and his singing is his message. but your music like yours of music had did influence even elton john lennon song for guy it

could've been one of the albums and the song for guy. a member of. the south korea oh yeah ok well yes is not as popular in russia as it could be unfortunately some of the reasons are in a report by spotlights in the me there. while the first jazz bands in the u.s. a song appeared as early as the nineteenth twenty's the music was never quite accepted by the soviet regime it is so she did just with the capitalist lifestyle forgettin the music originated in poor african-american communities even in the way to ease of the us is 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 would certainly ring a bell with the most russians wouldn't perform was only known by a small number of to both the jazz fans and jazz had never 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. often decide in favor of polka music as it's an easier way to make believe there are only two days. he just music makes headlines in russia it's an intense from across the country flock to the one hundred west of mosco for the jets festival the country's biggest open a jazz event is drawn in popularity with more and more musicians from russia and the brood taking part but the first of all don't last the weekend and for the rest of the year jazz in russia seems to be almost completely out of the limelight.

all this is sad is that they may because because i know a lot and hundreds of people why divide as a matter of fact this this young lady in the makes this. jazz fest possible is a friend of my we 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 i don't 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 of the mental rules but usually part music is part user and jazz music is usually relegated to fewer people who like to be more adventurous with little to all over the world that you can only economy real books and jazz is that right so what make real big bucks i mean you meet will many will 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 but more and more to continue to be able to to it's almost a trick what we do because because i blunder every night i go out in front of audiences and all these people turn up and i get to do exactly what. in my mind without any instruction from any higher authority and i like this from going to produce news are you a you're not that kind of slaves of your managers and produces there's that pop pop pop good guys. you know even pop guys it depends on how a musician they tell me this is the way i want to say you want to whatever where. you just do it well you know when i had

a normal life 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 herbie mann just was just starting a record label so he said sure come in come make a record for me i said well 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 and so well no that's not my music irving 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 whole life what was wrong with me it was clear with. my eyes it was something different 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 yeah it didn't fit my music and movement ok pin you can you recall your first visit to the use the song because

because i like costume people people of your scale that have visited the site so the it rush yeah and are still around yeah like the person is very different so some say it was ok something you know that was an awful communist tyranny country what do you recall was it ok it was a cool i had several days here and we were sponsored by the u.s. state department at the time and eighty's and best of the heart when i said it was nineteen eighty two. and god. 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. and i think my first visit here was a look at burton and playing with tonight and i found it to be a really exciting experience for me finally some musicians from russia who i was i

was able to talk to. chick he once said a 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 forty years because you do understand it well. i figure that. if i have a good understanding of the musicians i work with and we have a good rapport and. 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 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 three years so thanks for finding

a common language with the audience and communication having fun for yourself or making people have said well can you pick one of these which is the most know because. they all apply so i think i once again 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 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 be. 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 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 do you teach music. not directly you know why because it's impossible to teach somebody 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 that it's something for yourself thank you. 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 and that's it for now from all of you could always drop us a line and leave try to invite the people you like and some spotlight will be back with more interesting comment i don't want to bring on hand and as time goes on so

then take care and thanks for the stuff thank you for giving us the. home. from.