he rose to prominence as a member of Miles Davis's groundbreaking electric jazz group.But when you just listen," Cliburn returned home to a ticker-tape parade in New York, That sliding is known as a portamento. And this week, The crowd did. Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors, came together as The Bad Apple. Happy Apple, and rode jazz improvisation into new orbits with splashes of vaudeville and circus. Mich. this is the only radio version of their performances On the following dates in the following cities each show features 90 minutes of winging it with critics and other writers keeping track of what took place Here's a look at the tour as it unfolded toward Kalamazoo Apr 13: Walton Arts Center Fayetteville Ark "The improvisation was musical but it also was theater The three danced a few moments maybe an old-man stomp One could picture in them Sid Ceasar Ernie Kovacs and Robin Williams speaking gibberish as if they're playing cards reviewing the good old days or arguing Corea was heavier than expected while McFerrin was thinner When DeJohnette sat at the piano his arms seemed so long All had gray in their hair That maturity is key" Ben Pollack Concerto in Improvidoodle () Apr 15: Granada Theatre Santa Barbara "At one point all three musicians were at work together making sounds underneath the lid of Corea's piano At other times one would lay out and pantomime a march or a drum roll while the other two made music Paradoxically it was only when McFerrin used a high-pitched voice to order Corea off the piano bench ?? "Move over daddy" ?? that the music settled into a deep blues groove" Charles Donelan Santa Barbara Independent () Apr 16: Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles "Corea and DeJohnette each brandishing drumsticks began a mock sword fight that wound up with the pair rolling around onstage McFerrin accompanied [with] guttural sounds straight out of a samurai movie. [There were] virtuosic individual solos from each artist; startling sounds and textures ranging from subtle lyricism to outright bombast. at the close of the performance the crowd eager for an encore urged the trio to come back by spontaneously singing a musical phrase McFerrin had taught them a few minutes earlier" Don Heckman Los Angeles Times () Apr 20: UMS Ann Arbor Mich "This is the only performance I have ever paid money to attend and yet left before the end because it was so terrible The masterful performance of Chick Corea was amazing when he was allowed to shine and pleasantly complemented by the performance of DeJohnette The senseless noise-making of Bobby McFerrin gave me a headache" DC UMS ?? Be A Critic () Apr 23: Carnegie Hall NY "[DeJohnette] didn't solo until well more than an hour into the set but when he did he proved he is still in his mid-sixties if not the greatest working drummer in jazz then certainly among the top few. Corea's piano runs were of course impressive but he seemed to be having as much fun coaxing harpsichord-like sounds out of a smaller keyboard plucking the piano strings demonically clanging cowbell and finger cymbals twanging a Jew's harp and harmonizing with the other two. [McFerrin] yodeled He mimicked Billie Holiday so convincingly the audience roared approval He dropped in bits of blues hillbilly and opera. All three brayed like farm animals and led the audience in a sing-along" Jeff Tamarkin JazzTimes () Apr 25: Clowes Hall Ind "They just played in every sense of the word: McFerrin channeling everything from Billie Holiday to um possibly some kind of space alien; Chick Corea reaching into the piano to pluck and damp the strings and going over to the other side of the stage to hang out by the drums and play some cowbell; Jack DeJohnette singing and joking around and managing to make the percussion into an entire orchestra somehow. Most everyone in the audience was spellbound and grinning" Anne Haines Land Mammal () Apr 28: 2008 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Chenery Auditorium Kalamazoo Mich "There were tons of great surprises at the sold-out performance. Fourteen members of the Western Michigan University's jazz vocal group Gold Company briefly improvised with McFerrin onstage. When patrons thought they'd get an encore the musicians returned and entertained questions instead. Guessing what would come next made the show fun and memorable" William R Wood Kalamazoo Gazette () Credits: Thanks to Dan Gustin and Juanita Nash of The Gilmore Dedicated to Kalamazoo's Kevin Brown (1955-200 sorely missed on the recording team of Duke Markos Curt Pruitt Cameron Brown Brad Scott and Les Batts

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