When the Five Peace Band debuted in England last year at the London Jazz Festival it was clear from the majority of the reviews of the concert that Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Vinnie Colaiuta, had pulled off something quite spectacular.

It wasn’t just that the concert marked a reunion of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin playing together after 40 years but it also was the excitement of a new band that managed to capture the essence of the moment and a special period of creativity when the pair worked with Miles Davis on In A Silent Way. In a Jazzwise exclusive , Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Kenny Garrett talk to Stuart Nicholson as the Five Peace Band Live double album is released

According to The New York Times, it was comedian Robin Williams who coined the phrase, “If you can remember the 1960s, then you weren’t there.” But both Chick Corea and John McLaughlin have good reason to remember the 1960s and what’s more, they’ve got pretty unassailable evidence they were there. Ask them where they were between 10am and 1.30pm on 18 February 1969, and they will tell you Columbia’s Studio B in New York city. The reason why they remember the occasion so well is that they took part in a recording called In A Silent Way by Miles Davis that just happened to change the course of jazz history.

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