Did Chick Corea Perfect Midi Jazz?

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Stack a DX7, a keytar, and enough rack-mount synths to power a small city, and you get one of the most iconic – and polarizing – jazz fusion albums of the ’80s. This week, we dive into The Chick Corea Elektric Band (1986), the record that inspired a thousand copycats and split the jazz world. From the jaw-dropping virtuosity of “Got a Match?” to the neon-lit grooves of “Rumble,” we ask: does the tech overshadow the music? Is there too much production polish and not enough stank? Peak fusion or synthmania gone overboard? Join us as we unpack one of the best fusion bands ever assembled.

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0:00.0	Yo, Adam, you seem to be quite the Moog today.
0:08.5	Yeah, Peter, we're talking about Chick Korea today, so, you know, I prefer chick on a synthesizer.
0:15.1	Really?
0:15.7	Yeah.
0:16.0	I like him on the acoustic.
0:18.6	Yeah, but what about...
0:20.0	Yeah. acoustic. Yeah, but what about like this? I'm gonna be a I'm gonna I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	I'm
0:41.3	I'm
0:43.3	I'm
0:45.3	I'm
0:46.3	I'm
0:49.3	I'm
0:51.3	I'm
0:53.3	I'm Adam Maness.
1:06.1	And I'm Peter Martin.
1:06.9	And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.
1:09.1	Music Explored.
1:10.8	Explored. Today, Peter brought to you by'll Hear It podcast. Music Explored.
1:16.3	Explored. Today, Peter brought to you by Open Studio. Go to OpenStudio.Jazz.com for, oh,
1:20.5	your jazz lesson needs. Hold, I want to write that down. Open Studio. And, yeah. Actually, I do want to go there because you have a little thing called Harmony Games over there. I'm going to write that down to... Harmony Games Unlimited. Sorry, I wanted to add that. Unlimited. That's an important bit of it. New lesson every week. New lesson, yeah, every single Monday we release a brand new harmony game. Not unlike your jazz piano method, which is a new lesson every Friday. Sue us. We like to do things once a week.
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