it's what they call the unilateral action of course of ozomatli. next door to spotlight meets a jazz i'd lose yearning for experimentation go birth to a whole new genre. hello again a welcome to spotlight the 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 facts there's another one which i like better jazz or rather the blues is what a good man feels that why today's guest is neither he's neither fat nor sad but this part and he's one of the legends in jazz and a pioneer of jazz fusion one of his albums it was called past present and future so what does the future hold for jazz lovers his jazz idol of the present grammy

award winner korea. at the age of just when your cheek started playing the piano influenced by his father a 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 improvise ation he seems become one of the stars of the 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 with us appear. you're welcome to ask oh 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 as it is yeah yeah some damage that when i when i first saw it when i first heard that . futures is something you says those papers you get when you buy oil is. this that that those that do that something to do with it don't want to weigh the futures 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 it's you can get as

many differences is there are people and and find unfortunately we have we still have passed in too little too because some. different people see it differently. for instance was dedicated to my mother and she had just passed away right around that time and it was a dedication to her and so you know the whole history which to. well dignity which doesn't mean to. be catered to but the whole album was just as. ok you pioneered as i've also mentioned has been. 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 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 to so i started out with the piano and i love it and so. this 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 that will definitely be plugged in. return to forever was the first album you 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 and i actually it was actually leave first ever jazz fusion album that they had that we had 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

in russia in russia or in musicians and they had all passed around tapes and cassettes that's what we did the weekend the music but at this point the record label we know nobody. 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 some money for it did you it was a did they pay you anything i don't think so no they should know it was an official servant i mean they can collect. his roubles there's those then soviet robles 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 to entertain people to needs people to make people feel better because because many people today think the jazz that pop is for the

people of pop music but jazz is like for the elite for the connoisseurs professionals there i don't think 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 are all music but there are so many different tastes in music that that's why there are different styles you know in life keeps changing jazz keeps changing everything is changing but in the original intent i think never changes which is the artist the musician wants to give something beautiful to the public. 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 they hear is this little is in their i phones gameboy play stations whatever it's elektra onic so what have you play before

people hear it becomes electronic anyway so what's the use of playing a custom i would say it's always been a lecture on it even when that needle was going around a little on the vinyl it was still like tronic you know and 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 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 like it gives us more possibilities it gives us more instruments with sound with special effects stuff like that but then you get back to to to to to an ordinary wooden stick piano does that mean that the possibilities this instrument

gives you all the acoustic guitar are unlimited i mean it's more than any other time device can give is that true well i think that the the the unlimited thing that you're talking. it is not his and anything to do with the instrument has to do with guns 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 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 in. you you had several periods in your career as a tonic acoustic i thought of gardens the different types of but 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 their favorite style their favorite 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 less than. many jazz musicians for for some reason like into putting matsuri oh well you know months or months 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 you know the mobile phones and i'm telling you. what was the guy and actually you know i personally love love his music is my fact i didn't invent recently where where 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 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 stick tunes to just sit 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 he was the most popular musician might still be do you think you 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 but still but still you like to turn to classical music for what 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 how to fly. how to perform on their instrument like the 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 it was why me horowitz is one of the guys i also love glenn gould i love an event he can sing who is 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 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 this summer i i'm i'm recording in new york my second piano concerto and i've gathered together in new york thirty musicians who are classical players who are going to play my son. says chicory a jazz idol of our time and grammy award winner spotlight will be back shortly

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almost all of the provision is a political one has taken exception to that. welcome back to spotlight i'm older now than just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is czech korea jass legend and 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 your the guy because this would have been strange because you're an american and you and you play jazz in america where the jazz was born so so but still does that mean that some other music could have an impact on other gone wrong

it does and it has one of them and it always will what else do you need that you know what i have everything and i didn't 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. but 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 sat down and played for me and and it's inspiring and you have this fresh mind that is unencumbered by. the usual ideas they haven't had time to be. fifty. sixteen fourteen year old kid play here get inspired is that the feeling he's gonna 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 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 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 elton john like i sang for guy it could have been one of the albums. that. ever. the subject area oh yeah ok well jazz is not as popular in

russia as it could be unfortunately some of the reasons are in a report by spotlights you know the me there. while the first jazz bands in the u.s. a saw appeared as early as the nine hundred twenty s. the music was never quite accepted by the soviet regime it associated just with the capitalist lifestyle forgettin the music originated in poor african-american communities even in the later years 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 jewish society jazz in russia hardly manage to get beyond that periphery well names like louis armstrong and duke ellington would certainly ring a bell with most russians wouldn't put food on. known by smooth number of devoted jazz fans jazz hardly ever gets unerring in russian t.v.

or radio stations mass media is too preoccupied with the life of stars to change the situation young russian performers of jazz often decide in favor of pop 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 one hundred they'd west of most go for the jets 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 only last so weekend and for the rest of the year jazz in russia seems to be almost completely out of the limelight. this is sad is it because because i know a lot and hundreds of people who are devout as a matter of fact this this young lady here the makes this one hundred jazz fest possible she's a friend of my work together as newsman. for four

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. sort of music that some people 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 there might be different the scale the scale governmental rules but usually part music is pop music and jazz music is relegated to a few people who like to be more adventurous with little sioux all over the world that you can make you can make real bucks in jazz is that right and what make real big bucks i mean you meet will many what if you play upon 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 move 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 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 that producers are you a 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 what is the way or what to say you want to know what i will wear to my thing you just do it everywhere it is well you know when i normal life you and when 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 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 and he kept asking me and he kept saying well just include a little cowbell or something i said well that's not the my music 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 whole life so what was wrong with. it was kind of it was in . my eyes it was something different well it's not the problem of the bell itself it's about the whose idea if it was your idea it would have been ok i didn't fit my music at the moment ok can you can you recall your first visit to the youth the sun because because i like i asking people people of your scale that have visited this set of yet rush yeah and are still around yeah lie. this person is very different so some say it was ok to something no 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 i am really eighties ambassador hartman i think seventy nine hundred eighty two eighty two eighty two and. we were told that there were no public performances allowed so so the us ambassador used to sponsor house here in moscow to invite russian people musicians in right or the low and i think my first visit here was with gary burton actually 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 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 guy 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 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 self-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 mostly. you know because. they all apply it's own i think 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'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 the 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 you will you know as 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 with

a 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 i think. thank you thank you very much for being with us ok and just a reminder that my guest today was to korea jazz legend dan grammy and want and that's it for now from all of us here and you can always drop us a line and leave try to divide the people you like into the spotlight we'll be back with more threats that comment i don't want going on and that outside rush until then take care and thanks for the stuff thank you kevin but.

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