CoreaHancock

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CoreaHancock
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Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1979
RecordedFebruary 1978
Genre Jazz
Length81:23(vinyl)
71:41 (CD)
Label Polydor
Producer David Rubinson
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CoreaHancock is an acoustic live album by Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. It was recorded over the course of several live performances in February 1978 and released in 1979. Corea has top billing on this album, as Hancock did for An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert , another recording of the same tour released on Hancock's label. The CD version heavily edits what was released on the final side of the vinyl version.

Contents

Hancock makes reference to Corea's albums Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in his introduction of Corea on this album.

Track listing

Vinyl

Side one
  1. "Homecoming" (Corea) – 19:10
Side two
  1. "Ostinato" (from "Mikrokosmos for Two Pianos, Four Hands") (Béla Bartók) – 2:37
  2. "The Hook" (Corea, Hancock) – 13:15
Side three
  1. "Herbie's Intro of Chick" – 0:41
  2. "Bouquet" (Corea) – 18:13
Side four
  1. "Maiden Voyage" (Hancock) – 10:42
  2. "La Fiesta" (Corea) – 16:45

CD

  1. "Homecoming" (Corea) – 19:12
  2. "Ostinato" (from "Mikrokosmos for Two Pianos, Four Hands") (Béla Bartók) – 3:02
  3. "The Hook" (Corea, Hancock) – 13:30
  4. "Bouquet" (Corea) – 19:22
  5. "Maiden Voyage" (Hancock) – 8:26
  6. "La Fiesta" (Corea) – 8:09

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References

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