Chick Corea Akoustic Band

Akoustic Band
Akoustic Band
Studio album by Chick Corea Akoustic Band
Released	1989
Recorded	1989
Studio	Clinton Recording Studios (New York, NY); Mad Hatter Studios (Los Angeles, CA);
Genre	Post-bop, jazz fusion
Length	60:29
Label	GRP Records
Producer	Chick Corea
Chick Corea chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Akoustic Band is the first album by the Chick Corea Akoustic Band, featuring Chick Corea with John Patitucci and Dave Weckl. The group was nominated and received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group at the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards.

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album with 1.5 stars and its review by Daniel Gioffre states: "After recording a string of fusion records in the late '80s with his Chick Corea Elektric Band, Chick Corea returned to acoustic jazz with this trio date. Enlisting Elektric Band sidemen John Patitucci and Dave Weckl, Corea swings through ten tracks with noticeably mixed results. The leader is as romantic as ever, playing with bravado even on ballads, flawlessly executing complicated ideas, reveling in drama and melodrama."^[1]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bessie's Blues"	John Coltrane	4:57
2.	"My One and Only Love"	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Robert Mellin, Guy Wood	4:47
3.	"So in Love"	Cole Porter	6:55
4.	"Sophisticated Lady"	Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish	5:07
5.	"Autumn Leaves"	Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert	5:07

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Someday My Prince Will Come"	Frank Churchill, Larry Morey	6:14
2.	"Morning Sprite"	Chick Corea	6:33
3.	"T.B.C. (Terminal Baggage Claim)"	Corea	5:15
4.	"Circles"	Corea	6:33
5.	"Spain"	Corea	5:52

Personnel

Musicians

Chick Corea – Yamaha CP3 concert grand piano^[3]
John Patitucci – double bass
Dave Weckl – drums

Production

Ron Moss – executive album producer
Dave Grusin – executive producer
Larry Rosen – executive producer
Chick Corea – producer, album cover concept
Bernie Kirsh – engineer
Joseph Martin – recording assistant
Larry Mah – digital mix assistant
Mick Thompson – recording manager
Meg Darnell – studio manager
Mark Francovich – studio manager
The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California) – mastering location
Jeff Baker – piano tuning and regulation
Evelyn Brechtlein – project coordinator
Suzanne Sherman – production coordinator
Andy Baltimore – creative director, album cover concept, graphic design
Carol Weinberg – album cover concept, photography
David Gibb – graphic design
Dave Kunze – graphic design, back cover illustration
Ivan Salgado – graphic design
Dan Serrano – graphic design, back cover illustration

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1989	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	1^[4]

Awards

Grammy Awards^[5]

Year	Winner	Category
1989	Chick Corea Akoustic Band	Best Jazz Instrumental Album

References

^ ^a ^b Gioffre, Daniel. Akoustic Band – Chick Corea Akoustic Band at AllMusic. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Chick Corea Akoustic Band (Vinyl album cover). Chick Corea Akoustic Band. United Kingdom: GRP. 1994. GRP-9582.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Akoustic Band – Chick Corea's Akoustic Band | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
^ "32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved November 12, 2017.

[allmusic-1] Gioffre, Daniel. Akoustic Band – Chick Corea Akoustic Band at AllMusic. Retrieved 2010-03-24.

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[album-notes-3] Chick Corea Akoustic Band (Vinyl album cover). Chick Corea Akoustic Band. United Kingdom: GRP. 1994. GRP-9582.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[4] "Akoustic Band – Chick Corea's Akoustic Band | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

[5] "32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved November 12, 2017.

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Chick Corea discography
As leader	Tones for Joan's Bones (1968) Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968) Circling In (1975) Is (1969) Sundance (1972) The Song of Singing (1970) A.R.C. (1971) (with Dave Holland & Barry Altschul) The Leprechaun (1976) My Spanish Heart (1976) The Mad Hatter (1978) Secret Agent (1978) Friends (1978) Tap Step (1980) Three Quartets (1981) Trio Music (1982) Touchstone (1982) Again and Again (1983) Summer Night: Live (1987) (with Akoustic Band) Chick Corea Akoustic Band (1989) (with Akoustic Band) Alive (1991) (with Akoustic Band) Seabreeze (1993) (with Gayle Moran & Lionel Hampton) Time Warp (1995) Remembering Bud Powell (1996) Rendezvous in New York (2003) The Ultimate Adventure (2006) Super Trio - Live at the One World Theatre, April 3rd, 2005 (2006) (with Steve Gadd & Christian McBride) Five Peace Band Live (2009) (with John McLaughlin) Further Explorations (2012) The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (2012) The Vigil (2013) Trilogy (2013) (with Chick Corea Trio) The Musician: Live at The Blue Note Jazz Café (2016) Chinese Butterfly (2017) (with Steve Gadd) Trilogy 2 (2019)(with Chick Corea Trio) Antidote (2019)
Solo piano albums	Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971) Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1972) Delphi I (1979) Delphi II & III (1980) Children's Songs (1984) Expressions (1994) Solo Piano: Originals (2000) Solo Piano: Standards (2000) Solo Piano – Portraits (2014) Plays (2020)
Duos	An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978) CoreaHancock (1979) Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert (1980) Voyage (1984) [with Steve Kujala] Play (1992) (with Bobby McFerrin) The Enchantment (2007) (with Béla Fleck) Duet (2008) (with Hiromi Uehara) Orvieto (2010) (with Stefano Bollani) Two (2015) [with Béla Fleck]
with Gary Burton	Crystal Silence (1972) Duet (1979) In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1980) Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982) Native Sense - The New Duets (1997) The New Crystal Silence (2008) Hot House (2012)
Circle	Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (1970) Circle 2: Gathering (1971) Paris Concert (1972) Circling In (1975) Circulus (1978)
with Stanley Clarke	Children of Forever (1973) Journey to Love (1975) Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (1980) Up (2014)
with Miles Davis	Water Babies (1976) Filles de Kilimanjaro (1969) In a Silent Way (1969) Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (2013) Bitches Brew (1970) Bitches Brew Live (2011) Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1977) Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (1970) Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (2014) Jack Johnson (a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson) (1971) Circle in the Round (1979) Live-Evil (1971) On the Corner (1972) Big Fun (1974)
with Chick Corea Elektric Band	The Chick Corea Elektric Band (1986) Light Years (1987) Eye of the Beholder (1988) Inside Out (1990) Beneath the Mask (1991) Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993) Live from Elario's (The First Gig) (1996) To the Stars (2004) Live in Tokyo 1987 (2017)
with Joe Farrell	Joe Farrell Quartet (1970) Outback (1971) Skate Board Park (1979)
with Stan Getz	Sweet Rain (1967) What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1968) Captain Marvel (1972)
with Joe Henderson	Relaxin' at Camarillo (1979) Mirror Mirror (1980) Joe Henderson: Big Band (1997)
with Hubert Laws	The Laws of Jazz (1964) Flute By-Laws (1966) Laws' Cause (1968) Wild Flower (1972) Family (1980) Blanchard: New Earth Sonata (1985)
with Herbie Mann	Herbie Mann Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965) Monday Night at the Village Gate (1966) Latin Mann Afro to Bossa to Blues (1965) Standing Ovation at Newport (1965)
with Blue Mitchell	The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Boss Horn (1967)
with Origin	Live at the Blue Note (1998) A Week at The Blue Note (1998) Change (1999) corea.concerto: Spain for Sextet & Orchestra / Piano Concerto No. 1 (1999)
with Return to Forever	Return to Forever (1972) Light as a Feather (1973) Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973) Where Have I Known You Before (1974) No Mystery (1975) Romantic Warrior (1976) Musicmagic (1977) Live (1978) Returns (2009) Forever [as Corea, Clarke & White] (2011) The Mothership Returns (2012)
with Wayne Shorter	Super Nova (1969) Moto Grosso Feio (1974)
with others	Sonny Stitt: Stitt Goes Latin (1963) Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin (1964) Cal Tjader: Soul Burst (1966) Pete La Roca: Turkish Women at the Bath (1967) Donald Byrd: The Creeper (1981) Eric Kloss: To Hear Is to See! (1969) Eric Kloss: Consciousness! (1970) Larry Coryell: Spaces (1970) Sadao Watanabe: Round Trip (1970) Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970) Richard Davis: The Philosophy of the Spiritual (1971) Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup: Going to the Rainbow (1971) John Surman: Conflagration (1971) Elvin Jones: Merry-Go-Round (1972) Airto Moreira: Free (1972) Anthony Braxton: The Complete Braxton (1973) Richard Davis: With Understanding (1975) Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family (1977) Ron Carter: Parade (1979) Gábor Szabó: Femme Fatale (1979) Tete Montoliu: Lunch in L.A. (1980) Chaka Khan et al.: Echoes of an Era (1982) Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993) Like Minds (1998) (with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland) Herbie Hancock: Gershwin's World (1998) Avishai Cohen: Lyla (2003) Miroslav Vitouš: Universal Syncopations (2003) Antonio Sánchez: Migration (2007) Hans Glawischnig: Panorama (2008)
Compilations	Inner Space (1973) The Complete "Is" Sessions (2002) Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner (1976) Chick Corea Compact Jazz (1987) Best of Chick Corea (1993) Selected Recordings (2002) Very Best of Chick Corea (2004) Herbie Mann-Chick Corea: The Complete Latin Band Sessions (2007) Electric Chick (2008)
Soundtracks	Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989)