Touchstone (album)

Touchstone
Touchstone
Studio album by Chick Corea
Released	1982
Studio	Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	46:09
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Chick Corea
Chick Corea chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Touchstone is an album by Chick Corea, released in 1982 through Warner Bros. Records. The album peaked at number nine on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.^[3]

Track listing[]

All tracks composed by Chick Corea.

"Touchstone: Procession, Ceremony, Departure" – 10:58
"The Yellow Nimbus" – 8:51
"Duende" – 3:11
"Compadres" – 9:41
"Estancia" – 6:18
"Dance of Chance" – 7:14

Personnel[]

Musicians

Chick Corea – acoustic piano (1, 2, 3), Fender Rhodes electric piano (4, 5, 6), Fairlight CMI, Minimoog, Moog 55 modular, Oberheim OB-Xa & Yamaha GS-1 synthesizers (1, 2, 4, 5, 6); gong, cymbal (1)
Gayle Moran – vocals, speech/speaker/speaking part, voices (1)
Allen Vizzutti – trumpet (6)
Steve Kujala – flute, tenor saxophone (6)
Lee Konitz – alto saxophone (3)
Carol Shive – violin (3)
Gregg Gottlieb – cello (3)
Bob Magnusson – double bass (3)
Paco de Lucía – guitar (1, 2); hand clapping, percussion (2)
Al Di Meola – guitar (4)
Carles Benavent – fretless electric bass (1, 6)
Stanley Clarke – electric bass (4)
Lenny White – drums (4)
Alex Acuña – drums (5, 6); snare drum, cymbals, cajón (1)
Laudir DeOliveira – caixa, ganzá (1); caxixi, wood blocks (5)
Don Alias – lya drum (2); bongos (5); congas (5, 6)

Production

Duncan Aldrich – engineer
Bernie Grundman – engineer
Bernie Kirsh – engineer
Chick Corea – producer
Ron Moss – executive producer
Joel Strote – executive producer
Tony Cohan – liner notes

Chart performance[]

Year	Chart	Position
1982	Billboard Jazz Albums	9 ^[4]

References[]

^ Yanow, Scott. "Chick Corea - Touchstone (1982) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ "Chick Corea: Charts & Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
^ "Chick Corea - Touchstone (1982) | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

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[1] Yanow, Scott. "Chick Corea - Touchstone (1982) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[3] "Chick Corea: Charts & Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved August 5, 2011.

[4] "Chick Corea - Touchstone (1982) | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

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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) (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)
with Circle	Circling In (1975) Circulus (1978) (1971) (1971) Paris Concert (1972)
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: (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 Vitous: Universal Syncopations (2003) Antonio Sánchez: Migration (2007) : Panorama (2008)
Compilations	Inner Space (1973) The Complete "Is" Sessions (2002) (1976) Chick Corea Compact Jazz (1987) Best of Chick Corea (1993) Selected Recordings (2002) Very Best of Chick Corea (2004) Herbie Mann-Chick Corea: The Complete Latin Band Sessions (2007) Electric Chick (2008)
Soundtracks	Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989)

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Studio albums	Land of the Midnight Sun Elegant Gypsy Casino Splendido Hotel Electric Rendezvous Scenario Cielo e Terra Soaring Through a Dream Tirami Su World Sinfonia Kiss My Axe World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants Orange and Blue Di Meola Plays Piazzolla The Infinite Desire Winter Nights World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion Flesh on Flesh Consequence of Chaos Diabolic Inventions and Seduction for Solo Guitar Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody
Live albums	Tour De Force – Live
with Return to Forever	Where Have I Known You Before No Mystery Romantic Warrior Returns
with the Guitar Trio	Friday Night in San Francisco Passion, Grace and Fire The Guitar Trio
with Clarke and Ponty	Rite Of Strings
Guest appearances	Go Live From Paris Go Go Too Hearts and Bones Touchstone Dance of Fire Inspiration – Colors & Reflections Black Utopia Cosmopolitan Life
as producer	Magic Touch
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