Premiere Recording Of Chick Corea's Marika Groove

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Big Round Records is proud to announce the world premiere recording of Chick Corea's "Marika Groove, " available on iTunes on April 3, 2012. "Marika Groove" is a twelve-minute instrumental tour-de-force by Chick Corea written for virtuoso marimba soloist Mika Yoshida and Grammy -winning clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. Drummer Steve Gadd and bassist Eddie Gomez join Yoshida and Stoltzman to capture Corea's composition in a sprawling, ebullient track featuring finely-honed instrumental interplay, muscular rhythmic structures, and ceaselessly inventive melodies, which Yoshida delivers with her signature inspiration and aplomb. The track was recorded at Avatar Studios in New York NY, engineered by Jay Messina and produced by Gadd and Yoshika.

"Creating this composition for Mika Yoshida was a pure joy, " says composer Chick Corea. "Her only request to the composer was to have 'groove' be part of the composition. So groove we have – especially for the special premiere with the great Steve Gadd and virtuosic Eddie Gomez. And a special joy to also write for my old friend Richard Stoltzman – the rubato solo in the middle is written especially for him."

"We are delighted to release and premiere such an outstanding and historic recording as this, " says Big Round parent company PARMA Recordings CEO Bob Lord. "We have had a longstanding, fruitful musical relationship with Mika Yoshida and Richard Stoltzman, and this marks a new and significant chapter in our collaboration."

"Marika Groove" will be available on iTunes on April 3rd, 2012, a day ahead of its April 4th premiere performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. This is the second release from Big Round Records featuring the Yoshida/Gadd/Gomez trio, following the highly acclaimed live DVD, MIKA MARIMBA MADNESS.

About Big Round Records
Big Round Records, an imprint of the New Hampshire-based PARMA Recordings, is dedicated to presenting world-class musicians doing what they do best: smash the walls of genre and create groundbreaking new sounds while keeping one foot firmly rooted in tradition. Overdriven bassoons, orchestra-backed swing groups, blues-inflected Zydeco, outlandish arrangements of Disney songs, and modern-protest tunes is just a small slice of what you'll hear on our releases, which feature some of today's most forward-thinking and respected artists such as Branford Marsalis, Mika Yoshida, Richard Stoltzman, John Hall (Orleans), Steve Gadd, Andy Jaffe, Eddie Gomez, Tony Oxley, and many more. Out of the box? With Big Round, there is no box.

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