The Complete "Is" Sessions

2002 compilation album by Chick Corea

Compilation album by

Chick Corea

Released

October 8, 2002

Recorded

May 11–13, 1969

Studio

Bell Sound (New York City)

Genre

Jazz

Label

Blue Note

Producer

Sonny Lester

Chick Corea chronology

Selected Recordings
(2002)

The Complete "Is" Sessions
(2002)

Rendezvous in New York
(2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

The Complete "Is" Sessions is a 2002 Blue Note Records compilation album by Chick Corea of material recorded in May of 1969. The material from the "Is" sessions was released originally on two separate albums on two different record labels. The songs "Is", "This", "Jamala" and "It" were issued as Is on Solid State Records in 1969, whilst the remaining songs were released as Sundance on the Groove Merchant label in 1972. The 2002 Blue Note double CD package also includes alternate takes from the original recording sessions.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chick Corea unless otherwise noted.

Disc one

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

Disc two

"Jamala" (Dave Holland) – 14:07
"Converge" – 7:59
"Is" – 28:54
"Jamala [alternate take]" (Holland) – 8:57
"Converge [alternate take]" – 7:59

Personnel

Production

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

References

^ Jurek, Thom. "Chick Corea - The Complete "Is" Sessions (rec. 1969, rel. 2002) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

External links

Gilbert, Robert (January 21, 2003). "Chick Corea - The Complete "Is" Sessions (rec. 1969, rel. 2002) album review". All About Jazz. www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
Chick Corea - The Complete "Is" Sessions (rec. 1969, rel. 2002) album review by Thom Jurek, credits & releases at AllMusic
Chick Corea - The Complete "Is" Sessions (rec. 1969, rel. 2002) album releases & credits at Discogs

Chick Corea

Chick Corea discography

As
leader

Tones for Joan's Bones (1968)
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968)
Circling In (1975)
Is (1969)
Sundance (1972)
The Song of Singing (1970)
A.R.C. (1971) (with Dave Holland & Barry Altschul)
The Leprechaun (1976)
My Spanish Heart (1976)
The Mad Hatter (1978)
Secret Agent (1978)
Friends (1978)
Tap Step (1980)
Three Quartets (1981)
Trio Music (1982)
Touchstone (1982)
Again and Again (1983)
Summer Night: Live (1987) (with Akoustic Band)
Chick Corea Akoustic Band (1989) (with Akoustic Band)
Alive (1991) (with Akoustic Band)
Seabreeze (1993) (with Gayle Moran & Lionel Hampton)
Time Warp (1995)
Remembering Bud Powell (1996)
Rendezvous in New York (2003)
The Ultimate Adventure (2006)
Super Trio - Live at the One World Theatre, April 3rd, 2005 (2006) (with Steve Gadd & Christian McBride)
Five Peace Band Live (2009) (with John McLaughlin)
Further Explorations (2012)
The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (2012)
The Vigil (2013)
Trilogy (2013) (with Chick Corea Trio)
The Musician: Live at The Blue Note Jazz Café (2016)
Chinese Butterfly (2017) (with Steve Gadd)
Trilogy 2 (2019)(with Chick Corea Trio)
Antidote (2019)

Solo piano
albums

Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971)
Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1972)
Delphi I (1979)
Delphi II & III (1980)
Children's Songs (1984)
Expressions (1994)
Solo Piano: Originals (2000)
Solo Piano: Standards (2000)
Solo Piano – Portraits (2014)
Plays (2020)

Duos

An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978)
CoreaHancock (1979)
Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert (1980)
Voyage (1984) [with Steve Kujala]
Play (1992) (with Bobby McFerrin)
The Enchantment (2007) (with Béla Fleck)
Duet (2008) (with Hiromi Uehara)
Orvieto (2010) (with Stefano Bollani)
Two (2015) [with Béla Fleck]

with
Gary Burton

Crystal Silence (1972)
Duet (1979)
In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1980)
Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982)
Native Sense - The New Duets (1997)
The New Crystal Silence (2008)
Hot House (2012)

Circle

Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (1970)
Circle 2: Gathering (1971)
Paris Concert (1972)
Circling In (1975)
Circulus (1978)

with
Stanley Clarke

Children of Forever (1973)
Journey to Love (1975)
Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (1980)
Up (2014)

with
Miles Davis

Water Babies (1976)
Filles de Kilimanjaro (1969)
In a Silent Way (1969)
Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (2013)
Bitches Brew (1970)
Bitches Brew Live (2011)
Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1977)
Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (1970)
Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (2014)
Jack Johnson (a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson) (1971)
Circle in the Round (1979)
Live-Evil (1971)
On the Corner (1972)
Big Fun (1974)

with
Chick Corea
Elektric Band

The Chick Corea Elektric Band (1986)
Light Years (1987)
Eye of the Beholder (1988)
Inside Out (1990)
Beneath the Mask (1991)
Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993)
Live from Elario's (The First Gig) (1996)
To the Stars (2004)
Live in Tokyo 1987 (2017)

with
Joe Farrell

Joe Farrell Quartet (1970)
Outback (1971)
Skate Board Park (1979)

with
Stan Getz

Sweet Rain (1967)
What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1968)
Captain Marvel (1972)

with
Joe Henderson

Relaxin' at Camarillo (1979)
Mirror Mirror (1980)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (1997)

with
Hubert Laws

The Laws of Jazz (1964)
Flute By-Laws (1966)
Laws' Cause (1968)
Wild Flower (1972)
Family (1980)
Blanchard: New Earth Sonata (1985)

with
Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965)
Monday Night at the Village Gate (1966)
Latin Mann Afro to Bossa to Blues (1965)
Standing Ovation at Newport (1965)

with
Blue Mitchell

The Thing to Do (1964)
Down with It! (1965)
Boss Horn (1967)

with
Origin

Live at the Blue Note (1998)
A Week at The Blue Note (1998)
Change (1999)
corea.concerto: Spain for Sextet & Orchestra / Piano Concerto No. 1 (1999)

with
Return to Forever

Return to Forever (1972)
Light as a Feather (1973)
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973)
Where Have I Known You Before (1974)
No Mystery (1975)
Romantic Warrior (1976)
Musicmagic (1977)
Live (1978)
Returns (2009)
Forever [as Corea, Clarke & White] (2011)
The Mothership Returns (2012)

with
Wayne Shorter

Super Nova (1969)
Moto Grosso Feio (1974)

with
others

Sonny Stitt: Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin (1964)
Cal Tjader: Soul Burst (1966)
Pete La Roca: Turkish Women at the Bath (1967)
Donald Byrd: The Creeper (1981)
Eric Kloss: To Hear Is to See! (1969)
Eric Kloss: Consciousness! (1970)

- Larry Coryell: Spaces (1970)
Sadao Watanabe: Round Trip (1970)
Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970)
Richard Davis: The Philosophy of the Spiritual (1971)
Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup: Going to the Rainbow (1971)
John Surman: Conflagration (1971)
Elvin Jones: Merry-Go-Round (1972)
Airto Moreira: Free (1972)
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Braxton (1973)
Richard Davis: With Understanding (1975)
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family (1977)
Ron Carter: Parade (1979)
Gábor Szabó: Femme Fatale (1979)
Tete Montoliu: Lunch in L.A. (1980)
Chaka Khan et al.: Echoes of an Era (1982)
Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993)
Like Minds (1998) (with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland)
Herbie Hancock: Gershwin's World (1998)
Avishai Cohen: Lyla (2003)
Miroslav Vitouš: Universal Syncopations (2003)
Antonio Sánchez: Migration (2007)
Hans Glawischnig: Panorama (2008)

Compilations

Inner Space (1973)
The Complete "Is" Sessions (2002)
Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner (1976)
Chick Corea Compact Jazz (1987)
Best of Chick Corea (1993)
Selected Recordings (2002)
Very Best of Chick Corea (2004)
Herbie Mann-Chick Corea: The Complete Latin Band Sessions (2007)
Electric Chick (2008)

Soundtracks

Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989)

v t e Woody Shaw
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	In the Beginning (1965) Blackstone Legacy (1970) Song of Songs (1972) The Moontrane (1974) San Francisco Express – Getting It Together (1975) Love Dance (1975) Little Red's Fantasy (1976) Woody Plays Woody (1976–77) The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage (1976) Rosewood (1977) The Iron Men (with Anthony Braxton, 1977) Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard (1978) Woody III (1978–79) For Sure! (1979) United (1981) Lotus Flower (1982) Master of the Art (1982) Night Music (1982) Setting Standards (1983) The Time Is Right (1983) Double Take (and Freddie Hubbard, 1985) Woody Shaw with the Tone Jansa Quartet (1985) Dr. Chi (1986) Bemsha Swing (1986) Solid (1986) Imagination (1987) In My Own Sweet Way (1987) The Eternal Triangle (with Freddie Hubbard, 1987)
With others	Home! (Gary Bartz, 1969) Coral Keys (Walter Bishop Jr., 1971) Child's Dance (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1972) Buhaina (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973) Anthenagin (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973) The Free Slave (Roy Brooks, 1970) Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1983) The Almoravid (Joe Chambers, 1971) Tones for Joan's Bones (Chick Corea, 1966) The Complete "Is" Sessions (Chick Corea, 1969) Brilliant Circles (Stanley Cowell, 1969) Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963) Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963) Tex Book Tenor/Back from the Gig (Booker Ervin, 1968) Ichi-Ban (Louis Hayes and Junior Cook, 1976) The Real Thing (Louis Hayes, 1977) If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (Joe Henderson, 1970) Joe Henderson Quintet at the Lighthouse (1970) Grass Roots (Andrew Hill, 1968) Lift Every Voice (Andrew Hill, 1969–70) Passing Ships (Andrew Hill, 1969) Bobby Hutcherson Live at Montreux (1973) Cirrus (Bobby Hutcherson, 1974) Bridge into the New Age (Azar Lawrence, 1974) 'Bout Soul (Jackie McLean, 1967) Demon's Dance (Jackie McLean, 1967) Reach Out! (Hank Mobley, 1968) Thinking of Home (Hank Mobley, 1970) Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (Pharoah Sanders, 1970) The Cape Verdean Blues (Horace Silver, 1965) The Jody Grind (Horace Silver, 1966) Natural Soul (Buddy Terry, 1967) Pure Dynamite (Buddy Terry, 1972) Expansions (McCoy Tyner, 1968) The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (Mal Waldron, 1986) The Seagulls of Kristiansund (Mal Waldron, 1986) Natural Essence (Tyrone Washington, 1967) Unity (Larry Young, 1965) Zawinul (Joe Zawinul, 1970)
Box sets	Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia, 1978–81 [2011]) Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic, 1965–87 [2013])