A.R.C. (album)

A.R.C.
A.R.C.
Studio album by Chick Corea / Dave Holland / Barry Altschul
Released	1971
Recorded	January 11–13, 1971
Studio	Tonstudio Bauer; Ludwigsburg, W. Germany
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:29
Label	ECM; ECM 1009 ST
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Chick Corea chronology
David Holland chronology

A.R.C. is an album by American jazz pianist Chick Corea, British jazz bassist Dave Holland and American jazz drummer Barry Altschul, recorded over January 11–13, 1971 and released on ECM later that year.

Background

The trio had recently recorded Corea's The Song of Singing together, which also features a version of Wayne Shorter’s “Nefertiti”.

This is the first project in Holland’s long association with ECM.

Title

The album title stands for "affinity, reality, communication", a phrase used in Scientology, with which Corea had recently become involved.^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "This LP features pianist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul during the brief period that, along with Anthony Braxton, they were members of the fine avant-garde quartet Circle. The music heard on this set is not quite as free as Circle's but often very explorative ... a very viable set of adventurous jazz, recorded just a few months before Corea changed direction."^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Chick Corea, except as noted.

Side I
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nefertiti"	Wayne Shorter	9:40
2.	"Ballad for Tillie"	Altschul Corea Holland	5:25
3.	"A.R.C."		5:39
Total length:			20:44

Side II
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Vadana"	Holland	7:35
2.	"Thanatos"		4:30
3.	"Games"		7:40
Total length:			19:45 40:29

Personnel

Musicians

Chick Corea– acoustic piano
David Holland – bass
Barry Altschul – drums, percussions

Production

Manfred Eicher – producer
Kurt Rapp – engineer
B & B Wojirsch – cover design

References

^ Gluck, Bob (2016). The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles. University of Chicago Press. p. 126.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul - A.R.C. (1971) album review | AllMusic accessed August 30, 2011
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 50. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

External links

[1] Gluck, Bob (2016). The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles. University of Chicago Press. p. 126.

[Allmusic-2] Yanow, S. Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul - A.R.C. (1971) album review | AllMusic accessed August 30, 2011

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 50. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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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)
Soundtracks	Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989)

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Where Fortune Smiles (with John McLaughlin, John Surman, Karl Berger, and Stu Martin, 1970) A.R.C. (with Chick Corea and Barry Altschul, 1971) Music from Two Basses (with Barre Phillips, 1971) Conference of the Birds (1972) Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns (1974) Dave Holland / Sam Rivers (1975) Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol. 2 (1975) Emerald Tears (1977) Life Cycle (1982) Jumpin' In (1983) Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland (1984) Seeds of Time (1984) The Razor's Edge (1987) Triplicate (1988) The Oracle (with Hank Jones and Billy Higgins, 1989) Extensions (1989) Phase Space (with Steve Coleman, 1991) Ones All (1993) Dream of the Elders (1995) Points of View (1997) Prime Directive (1998) Not for Nothin' (2000) What Goes Around (2001) Overtime (2002) Oh! (2002) Critical Mass (2005) Pass It On (2007) Hands (with Pepe Habichuela, 2009) Prism (2012) The Art of Conversation (with Kenny Barron, 2014) Aziza (2015) Uncharted Territories (2017) Another Land (2019) Without Deception (with Kenny Barron, 2019)
Live albums	Improvisations for Cello and Guitar (with Derek Bailey, 1971) Extended Play: Live at Birdland (2001) Reunion: Live in New York (with Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul, 2007) Pathways (2009)
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