Tap Step

Chick Corea | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 18, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Stretch Records
• ASIN: B000003OZI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #400,796 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YEP! ANOTHER JUCY CD FROM COREA., September 28, 1999

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Örn Leifsson (Reykjavik Iceland.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tap Step (Audio CD)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A different trip..., September 13, 2005

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D. Biswas "Dhruba" (India) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tap Step (Audio CD)

Hearing Chick's album makes me feel that I am in Jazz or Funk, but this album entirely changed my idea. It's an absolute piece of Brazilian music with a taste of Jazz and Funk...Truly fantastic. Stanley Clarke is at his best. Pick one copy and you won't regret.

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great Corea fusion album, June 14, 2006

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E. Minkovitch (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tap Step (Audio CD)

For some reason this album is somewhat obscure, but it is, in my opinion one of the finest fusion albums from Corea ever. It comes in the wake of the Return To Forever projects, and still has the RTF trademark stamped all over it. It contains everything that we love about Corea's fusion work - fiery samba, hot flamenco, fabulous fusion jamming, tight composition, sweeping big band orchestrations, soaring flute solos, warm female vocals... Yum, yum, yum all the way!