Not all of the installments in the
Verve Jazz Masters series contain material originally issued on Verve.
Verve Jazz Masters 3, for example, consists of 14 examples drawn from seven
Chick Corea LPs released on the Polydor label during the years 1972-1978. Six of these come from
Corea's
Return to Forever period. The backbone of this collection (tracks one, seven, ten and fourteen) are selections from the highly acclaimed album
Light as a Feather (1972) and there are excerpts from Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973) and
No Mystery (1975). The other eight titles are traceable to
Corea's theatrically costumed and somewhat heavy-handed production albums
The Leprechaun (1975),
My Spanish Heart (1976),
Friends (1978) and
The Mad Hatter (1978). This disc will be useful as a vintage jazz fusion sampler or more specifically as an overview of what
Chick Corea was up to during the Nixon/Ford/Carter years. ~ arwulf arwulf