Light Years (Chick Corea album)

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Released1987
StudioMad Hatter Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
GenreJazz fusion
Length60:25 (CD)
41:06 (vinyl)
Light Years
Studio album by
Chick Corea Elektric Band
Released1987
StudioMad Hatter Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
GenreJazz fusion
Length60:25 (CD)
41:06 (vinyl)
LabelGRP
ProducerChick Corea
Chick Corea chronology
The Chick Corea Elektric Band
(1986)		 Light Years
(1987)		 Eye of the Beholder
(1988)

Light Years is an album by the Chick Corea Elektric Band. It features Chick Corea with guitarist Frank Gambale, saxophonist Eric Marienthal, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Dave Weckl.[1] The album received the 1988 Grammy Award for the Best R&B Instrumental Performance (orchestra, group or soloist).[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar[3]
The Penguin Guide to JazzStar[1]

The album was released by GRP Records.[1] The first edition of The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album its worst possible rating, describing it and other Elektric Band releases as "deeply horrid".[1] AllMusic's Scott Yanow concluded that it was "one of The Elektric Band's better releases".[3]

Track listing

All tracks written and arranged by Chick Corea, except where noted.

  1. "Light Years" (Corea, John Patitucci, Dave Weckl)– 3:51
  2. "Second Sight" – 4:12
  3. "Flamingo" – 4:08
  4. "Prism" – 3:29
  5. "Time Track" – 5:02
  6. "Starlight" (Corea, Patitucci) – 3:51
  7. "Your Eyes" – 3:56
  8. "The Dragon" (Corea, Patitucci) – 5:31
  9. "View from the Outside" – 6:33
  10. "Smokescreen" – 4:24
  11. "Hymn of the Heart" – 6:40
  12. "Kaleidoscope" – 8:03

Tracks 10–12 are bonus tracks on CD reissues.

Chart performance

Personnel

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