Pianist Chick Corea opened his first set at the Blue Note in New York on December 9th with a story about his special guest that evening, guitarist John McLaughlin – how they first met and played together at the local Columbia Records studio in 1969 at a Miles Davis session for the trumpeter's jazz-rock Book of Genesis, Bitches Brew. McLaughlin, in turn, got a round of laughs
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