Author: BURTON,GARY / COREA,CHICK

Format: Remixes included

PartNumber: COJ4803.2

Release Date: 30-11-1998

Details: Amazon.caVibist Gary Burton has been collaborating with pianist Chick Corea and guitarist Pat Metheny since the mid-’70s, and it shows. The three have a strong intuitive sense of each other’s lines and sound and can enhance the music in myriad, subtle ways. Having a great rhythm section doesn’t hurt either, and bassist Dave Holland and drummer Roy Haynes are two of the very best. On Like Minds they have created an excellent CD: a no-frills, straight-ahead jazz album, crisply recorded, full of energy and imagination. With the exception of the George Gershwin piece, “Soon,” the disc features all original compositions, with considerable thought given to distinguishing each soloist despite the surface similarity of their nimble, bouncy styles. Like minds, perhaps, but each possesses a