Light Years (Chick Corea album)

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]

Light Years
Studio album by
Chick Corea Elektric Band
Released1987
GenreJazz fusion
Length60:25 (CD)
LabelGRP
ProducerChick Corea
Chick Corea Elektric Band chronology
The Chick Corea Elektric Band
(1986)		 Light Years
(1987)		 Eye of the Beholder
(1988)

Release and reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[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] The AllMusic reviewer concluded that it was "one of The Elektric Band's better releases".[3]

Track listing
  1. "Light Years" – 3:51
  2. "Second Sight" – 4:12
  3. "Flamingo" – 4:08
  4. "Prism" – 3:29
  5. "Time Track" – 5:02
  6. "Starlight" – 3:51
  7. "Your Eyes" – 3:56
  8. "The Dragon" – 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
YearChartPosition
1987 Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums 6[2]

Personnel

References
  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (1st ed.). Penguin. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-14-015364-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "Light Years - Chick Corea's Elektric Band | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  3. Yanow, Scott. "Light Years - Chick Corea's Elektric Band | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
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