Chick Corea Elektric Band - Inside Out

Chick Corea Elektric Band — Inside Out

Lacquers cut by Bernie Grundman

2024 reissue restored to its original album track running order

For The Elektric Band's fourth outing, Chick Corea — the venerated 27-time Grammy winner and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master — decided to push the envelope even further than on previous albums. Writing for the band's individual strengths, Corea went full throttle on Inside Out.

Here we find the Elektric Band engaging in uptempo burners, prog-rock fantasia, Latin-tinged grooves and the kind of complex and characteristic tight harmonies and unisons that characterized Corea's earlier compositions of the 1970s.

There is are highly orchestrated aesthetic pieces such as "Make a Wish, Part 1," "Stretch It, Part 1," the driving, Latinesque swinger of "Make a Wish, Part 2," the intricate stop-time vehicle "Kicker" and the epic 20-minute, four part suite, "Tales of Daring." Notably one of Corea's most complex and demanding compositions.

Originally released in the midst of the CD explosion, Corea took full advantage of the increased running time the format offered. With vinyl in decline, songs were cut from the track lists in order to fit on the original single LP vinyl release. At last this album has been restored to it's original running order, as the artist intended.

Produced by Corea, with longtime engineering partner Bernie Kirsh, the album features detailed liner notes by jazz writer Bill Milkowski, providing context and filling out the listening experience with lush technical notes.

 

Side A

1. Inside Out

2. Make a Wish Part 1

3. Make a Wish Part 2

Side B

1. Stretch It Part 1

2. Stretch It Part 2

Side C

1.Child's Play

Tale of Daring Chapter 1

Side D

1. Tale of Daring Chapter 2

2. Tale of Daring Chapter 3

3. Tale of Daring Chapter 4

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