Like Minds [Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording reissued]

Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording reissued
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0000AUHSE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,177 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #67 in Music > Jazz > Jazz Fusion
  • #69 in Music > Jazz > Modern Postbebop
  • #92 in Music > Jazz > Smooth Jazz

Track Listings

1. Question and Answer

2. Elucidation

3. Windows

4. Futures

5. Like Minds

6. Country Roads

7. Tears of Rain

8. Soon

9. For a Thousand Years

10. Straight Up and Down

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like Minds Finally Meet on New Gary Burton CD, November 12, 1998

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The [e-mail] (NEW JERSEY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Like Minds (Audio CD)

Though Gary Burton, arguably the world's preeminent vibes jazz player, is the name at the top of the marquis on this new release from the venerable Concord Jazz label, much of the initial excitement here is the result of the first meeting on record of guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Chick Corea. Considering the lofty status of both players, it's hard to believe they haven't paired before. The rhythm section is rounded out by the venerable team of Roy Haynes and Dave Holland on drums and bass. All five of the players are kindred spirits, having played together frequently through the years, save for the Metheny-Corea combination. The mind meld between Burton and Corea is as tight as can be imagined, with these two players having a long history together. On "Like Minds" it is Corea and Metheny's compositional talents that take center stage. Each offer well known chestnuts from their repertoire - in Corea's case, it is the lilting jazz waltz, "Windows" (perhaps my favorite track), while Metheny's classic "Question and Answer" is given a fresh treatment. Burton's "Country Roads" is offered as well and all three composers contribute new pieces for the project. The album notes reveal that most of the recordings are either first or second takes. The technical level of the performances, as one would expect, is mind-blowing. There is an emphasis on stretching out and just "blowing" on the album as opposed to intricate arrangements. The three lead instruments cover some of the melody lines in unison, but Metheny generally foregoes comping on the album, letting Corea's active left hand provide most of the harmonic structure. All of the soloists are in rare form and all of them really take advantage of the format here to "stretch out". "Like Minds" doesn't attempt to appeal to the non-jazz audience the way that some projects by the principles here have in the past, such as Metheny's group projects, and Corea's Elektric Band. Rather, the band burns through straight-ahead charts in traditionalist fashion with world class precision. It's a kick hearing Corea and Metheny on the same stage and I hope that these two will collaborate again.

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blissful, transcendent jazz, November 13, 2003

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Minds (Audio CD)

Not having heard the (apparently) inferior sound of the original recording, I'm struggling to imagine its problems. You see, the sound on this SACD hybrid is nothing short of ravishing, save, perhaps, for a slight thinness that occasionally crops up in relation to Corea's piano which, oddly, seems to lack the brilliance and sonority of the very best instruments. The sound image, apart from that small annoyance, is simply stunning for the rest of the instruments, especially Roy Haynes's drums, which snap, snarl, and bubble with consummate authority. Complaints about Metheny being underrecorded on the original disc, or there being a general lack of clarity, simply do not appertain.

As far as the the performances, this disc finds the players completely engaged and in finest conversational fettle. Whatever is called for--fleetness, emotion, group interaction--each member delivers, seemingly offhandedly, gracing the proceedings with a aura of musical authority that cannot be gainsaid. Indeed, the sheer fluidity, the ease of execution, belies jazz enacted at the very highest level of expression.

This transcendent disc has scarcely left my player since I recently acquired it. I'm convinced it represents a high point in the careers of all the players. Highest recommendation.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars High Praise, February 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Like Minds (Audio CD)

A great album with a tremendous amount to offer the listener. Recently received the Grammy for Jazz Instrumental Individual/Group, and it certainly deserved it. Burton, Metheny, and Corea play off each other marvelously, weaving a hypnotic tapestry of music against a solid rhythm section which will delight the listener every time he or she plays this disc. These cats sound great, and the disc is solid from start to finish, no need for the "next track" button here. Add to shopping cart.