The 70's weren't all bad :)

The 70's weren't all bad, particularly the late 70's with Weather Report, Return to Forever, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Head Hunters and Steely Dan, with of course, Miles inventing this genre of jazz fusion in the first place beginning back in 1970. With this in mind, good friends and pianists extraordinaire, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock do a concert together for us rubes, reminding us yet again, the 70's, outside of horrible colors, marginal cars and wretched fashion was not all bad by any stretch of the imagination. :)

We all respected each other; we learned from each other. So there was never any kind of animosity. I remember going to see Miles with Chick in the band, and that was the first time the electric piano was used live with Miles. It was Chick playing the Fender Rhodes piano. I played the Fender Rhodes on some records with Miles but never live in concerts or in clubs. It was great; I loved it.

I loved [Return to Forever]. I loved what he was doing. I loved Mahavishnu Orchestra and what [guitarist] John McLaughlin’s band was doing. Weather Report was already formed. I loved what they were doing; it was great. And the whole phrase “jazz-rock” was part of the vocabulary. That was a new thing — the influence of rock on jazz — but I didn’t come from rock, I came from funk, and there was nobody else really doing that with jazz, so that’s what I did with the Headhunters band.

Chick Corea RIP. You will be missed.

Miles yet again.