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The Complete "Is" Sessions

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Released
  
October 8, 2002

Release date
  
8 October 2002

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Artist
  
Chick Corea

Producer
  
Sonny Lester

Genre
  
Jazz

The Complete

Recorded
  
May 11, 1969-May 13, 1969

The Complete "Is" Sessions (2002)
  
Rendezvous in New York (2003)

Similar
  
Chick Corea albums, Jazz albums

The Complete "Is" Sessions is a 2002 Blue Note Records compilation / re-issue album by Chick Corea of material recorded in May 1969. The material of the "Is" sessions was released originally in 1969 as two separate albums on two different record labels. The songs "Is", "This", "Jamala" and "It" were issued as Is on Solid State Records, whilst the remaining songs were released as Sundance on the Groove Merchant label. The 2002 Blue Note double CD package also includes alternate takes from the original recording sessions.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chick Corea unless otherwise noted.

Disc one

  1. "It" – 0:30
  2. "The Brain" – 10:10
  3. "This" – 8:18
  4. "Song of the Wind" – 8:05
  5. "Sundance" – 10:02
  6. "The Brain [alternate take]" – 7:26
  7. "This [alternate take]" – 11:49
  8. "Song of the Wind [alternate take]" – 6:46
  9. "Sundance [alternate take]" – 12:28

Disc two

  1. "Jamala" (Holland) – 14:07
  2. "Converge" – 7:59
  3. "Is" – 28:54
  4. "Jamala [alternate take]" (Holland) – 8:57
  5. "Converge [alternate take]" – 7:59

Personnel

  • Horace Arnold – percussion, drums
  • Chick Corea – piano, electric piano
  • Jack DeJohnette – drums
  • Dave Holland – bass
  • Hubert Laws – flute, piccolo flute
  • Bennie Maupin – tenor sax
  • Woody Shaw – trumpet
  • Production

  • Malcolm Addey – engineer, mastering
  • Michael Cuscuna – liner notes, release production
  • Sonny Lester – producer
  • Patrick Roques – artwork
  • Francis Wolff – artwork, photography
  • Songs

    It0:30
    The Brain10:11
    This8:19

    References

    The Complete "Is" Sessions Wikipedia