Fascinating Combination of Chick & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra Conquers Norway Chick Corea's enlivening piano performances with big bands of years past might have prepared listeners for his collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at the Molde Festival 2000. But the devastating showcase of musical prowess that occurred there was unforseeable—it's become one of the great events in the history of the festival.
Erlend Skomsvoll's arrangements for Chick and the big band bring out new colours in Corea's compositions ("Crystal Silence," "Armando's Rhumba," "Spain," "Return to Forever" and more) throughout the concert. The tunes are intimately recorded here, with such crystal clear sound that it feels like you are actually sitting right in the front row.
This is like no big band record you've ever heard.
Reviews
"Live in Molde is a must-have, a big band 'Treatise on Instrumentation.'" - All About Jazz
"Anyone at this year's IAJE performance by Chick Corea and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra of Norway left with a sense of exhilaration. Live in Molde continues in the same vein, presenting some of the most creative and challenging big band arrangements in recent memory." - All About Jazz
Tracks: 1. Crystal Silence 9:32
2. Windows 10:11
3. Matrix 14:11
4. Duende 10:14
5. Bud Powell 10:05
6. Return To Forever 6:37
7. Spain Intro 1:25
8. Armando's Rhumba 11:53
; "Live in Molde Chick Corea & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra 2005")