Chick Corea

This 1976 release features Chick Corea in what was then, and remains, a unique musical setting. While it is truly an electric jazz fusion record, it is also Corea's first solo recording to attempt to address the Latin side of his musical heritage. My Spanish Heart marks a full-scale, yet thoroughly modern, exploration in the musical lineage Corea sprang from. Making full use of synthesizer technology, a string section, and synth-linked choruses -- of two voices, his own and that of Gayle Moran -- as well as percussionist Don Alias, drummer Steve Gadd, a full brass section, and the sparse use of Jean Luc Ponty ("Armando's Rumba") and bassist Stanley Clark, Corea largely succeeded in creating a Spanish/Latin tapestry of sounds, textures and impressions

PERSONNEL:

• CHICK COREA, piano
• CARLITOS DEL PUERTO, bass
• MARCUS GILMORE, drums
• MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ, trumpet
• STEVE DAVIS, trombone
• JORGE PARDO, sax, flute
• LUSITO QUINTERO, percussion

• GUESTS:
• NIÑO JOSELE, guitar
• RUBEN BLADES, voice
• GAYLE MORAN, voice VMARIA BIANCA, voice

"Recording Date"

TRACKS:

• 01. Love Castle
• 02. The Gardens
• 03. Day Danse
• 04. My Spanish Heart
• 05. Night Streets
• 06. The Hilltop
• 07. The Sky
• 08. Wind Danse
• 09. Armando's Rhumba
• 10. Prelude To El Bozo
• 11. El Bozo, Part I
• 12. El Bozo, Part II
• 13. El Bozo, Part III
• 14. Spanish Fantasy, Part I
• 15. Spanish Fantasy, Part II
• 16. Spanish Fantasy, Part III
• 17. Spanish Fantasy, Part IV
• 18. The Clouds