Chick Corea - Tap Step (1980)

Tap Step is in my humble opinion one of Chick Corea's masterpieces, this is what great Fusion is all about, influences from all over the world fused through a talented musician into an individual style full of fun, beauty, power, passion and brains, I love it !

SAMBA L.A is, of course a samba, with the great Brazilian percussionis Airto Moreira on percussion. THE EMBRACE is influenced by Jazz and Classic.TAP STEP is a great modern Jazz piece with a fabulous rhythm pattern, played in the beginning of the piece on the Fender Rhodes electric piano and then repeated through the song as a riff, it's great. MAGIC CARPET begins with arpeggio patterns played on Moog synths with that great fat anolog sound, it's a jucy sound experience. THE SLIDE has some more Jazz and Brazil Fusion, with some great cuica plaing by Moreira. GRANDPA BLUES is dedicated to T. Monk and has a fun filled solo exchange between Chick on a vocoder and Stanley Clarke on a piccolo bass with a talk box. FLAMENGO is the last piece and is dedicated to Paco DeLucia and is a mix of Jazz and Flamengo.

All the player on the cd are superior musicians and Corea's compositions are excellent, no matter how you look at it, this is how it should be done.


Label: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#: BSK 3425
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Jazz
Style:
Credits: Lyrics By - Tony Cohan (tracks: A1, A2)
Lyrics By [Vocorder Lyrics] - Chick Corea (tracks: B3)
Mastered By - Bernie Grundman
Other [Equipment Assistant] - Mick Erickson
Photography - Jim McCary
Producer, Composed By, Arranged By - Chick Corea
Recorded By, Mixed By - Bernie Kirsh
Notes: Tap Step was recorded and mixed December, 1979-January, 1980, in Los Angeles. All tracks recorded at Love Castle Studio except A1, recorded at Oceanway Recording Studio.
Mixed at Oceanway Recording Studio.

Special equipment used:
Studer 24 track recorder modified by Mark Levinson, Audio Systems ML-5 2 track recorder (Studer 2 track modified by Mark Levinson), LNP-2 pre-amplifiers for recording and monitoring by Mark Levinson.

Instruments used by Chick:
Moog - Minimoog, Moog 55, Moog Vocorder
Oberheim - OBX 8 voice polyphonic keyboard
Rhodes - 88 suitcase model
Boesendorfer 9 foot Grand Piano
Paiste - Cymbals
Hohner - Duo keyboard
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Tracklisting:

01 Samba L.A. (5:52)
Clavinet, Keyboards [Obx 8], Synthesizer [Moog 55] - Chick Corea
Drums [Snare Drum], Tamborim, Whistle, Drums, Tamborim [Pandero] - Airto Moreira
Surdo, Agogô, Shaker [Ganza], Tamborim - Laudir Oliveira*
Vocals - Flora Purim , Gayle Moran , Nani Villa Brunel , Shelby Flint

02 The Embrace (5:52)
Bass [Fretless Bass], Keyboards [Yamaha 2000] - Bunny Brunel
Congas - Don Alias
Drums - Tom Brechtlein
Flute - Hubert Laws
Piano [Acoustic], Synthesizer [Moog 55] - Chick Corea
Trumpet, Flugelhorn - Al Vizzutti*
Vocals - Gayle Moran

03 Tap Step (8:19)
Bass [Fretless Bass] - Bunny Brunel
Drums, Drums [Snare Drum] - Tom Brechtlein
Electric Piano [Rhodes], Synthesizer [Minimoog, Moog 55], Keyboards [Obx 8] - Chick Corea
Saxophone [Tenor Sax] - Joe Farrell
Trumpet - Al Vizzutti*
04 Magic Carpet (6:51)
Bass [Fretless Bass] - Bunny Brunel
Congas - Don Alias
Drums - Tom Brechtlein
Piano [Acoustic], Synthesizer [Moog 55], Drums [Wood Block] - Chick Corea
Saxophone [Tenor Sax] - Joe Farrell
Trumpet - Al Vizzutti*

05 The Slide (6:47)
Agogô - Laudir Oliveira*
Bass [Fretless Bass] - Bunny Brunel
Bass [Piccolo Bass] - Jamie Faunt
Cuica - Airto Moreira
Drums - Tom Brechtlein
Drums [Lya Drums] - Don Alias
Electric Piano [Rhodes], Synthesizer [Minimoog, Moog 55] - Chick Corea

06 Grandpa Blues (4:03)
Bass [Fretless Bass] - Bunny Brunel
Bass [Piccolo Bass], Other [Talkbox] - Stanley Clarke
Drums - Tom Brechtlein
Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Minimoog, Moog 55, Moog Vocorder] - Chick Corea

07 Flamenco (3:34)
Bass [Fretless Bass] - Bunny Brunel
Drums - Tom Brechtlein
Piano, Synthesizer [Minimoog, Moog 55], Other [Handclaps] - Chick Corea
Piccolo - Hubert Laws
Saxophone [Soprano Sax] - Joe Farrell
Saxophone [Tenor Sax] - Joe Henderson
Trumpet - Al Vizzutti*






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