Akoustic Band is a 1989 album by Chick Corea's Akoustic Band, featuring Chick Corea

Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...

 with John Patitucci

John Patitucci

John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...

 and Dave Weckl

Dave Weckl

Dave Weckl is a highly acclaimed jazz fusion drummer. Weckl attended Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, MO and graduated in 1978. He majored in jazz studies at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut...

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The Allmusic review by Daniel Gioffre states: "After recording a string of fusion records in the late '80s with his Elektric Band, Chick Corea returned to acoustic jazz with this trio date. Enlisting Elektric Band sidemen John Patitucci and Dave Weckl, Corea swings through ten tracks with noticeably mixed results. The leader is as romantic as ever, playing with bravado even on ballads, flawlessly executing complicated ideas, reveling in drama and melodrama."

Track listing

1. "Bessie's Blues" (Coltrane) – 4:57
2. "My One and Only Love" (Gershwin, Gershwin, Mellin, Wood) – 4:47
3. "So in Love" (Porter) – 6:55
4. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills, Parish) – 5:07
5. "Autumn Leaves" (Kosma, Mercer, Prevert) – 8:16
6. "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Churchill, Churchill, Morey) – 6:14
7. "Morning Sprite" (Chick Corea
   Chick Corea
   Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
   
   ) – 6:33
8. "T.B.C (Terminal Baggage Claim)" (Corea) – 5:15
9. "Circles" (Corea) – 6:33
10. "Spain" (Corea) – 5:52

• Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, NYC