Sundance (album)

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Sundance
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1972 [1]
RecordedMay 11–13, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length36:15
Label Groove Merchant
Producer Sonny Lester
Chick Corea chronology
Piano Improvisations Vol. 1
(1971)
Sundance
(1972)
Piano Improvisations Vol. 2
(1972)
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Sundance is the seventh studio album by jazz pianist Chick Corea, recorded over three days in May of 1969 and released on Groove Merchant in February 1972. The album Is (released three years earlier) included material from the same sessions. [3] The album features a septet with trumpeter Woody Shaw, tenor saxophonist Bennie Maupin, flautist Hubert Laws, bassist Dave Holland and drummers Jack DeJohnette and Horace Arnold.

Contents

In 2002, Blue Note re-released all of the material for the session, with alternate takes from both albums, as The Complete "Is" Sessions .

Track listing

All tracks are written by Chick Corea

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The Brain"10:09
2."Song of Wind"8:05
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Converge"7:59
2."Sundance"10:02


Personnel

See also

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References

  1. Billboard Feb 26, 1972
  2. Yanow, Scott (2011). "Sundance - Chick Corea | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  3. Jazzlists: Groove Merchant Records 2200 Series, accessed March 26, 2018