Artist: Chick Corea, Chick Corea Elektric Band Tracks: Lifescape, Free Step, 99 Flavors Length (mins): 00:56:09 View on AMAZON 20 Time Warp 1995 18 votes Artist: Chick Corea, Chick Corea Quartet Tracks: Arndok's Grave, Time Warp, Terrain Length (mins): 00:57:30 Genres (Music): Ja...
Pianist Chick Corea has had about 20 different jazz careers. Which is why New York's Blue Note is turning over the club to Chick and his music for nearly the entire month of November. The unprecedented move not only comes in celebration of Chick's 70th birthday but also his 50 years of...
Chick Corea features an acoustic quartet on this CD, performing a full set of original material. The performances by the group (which is comprised of Corea on piano, Bob Berg on tenor and soprano, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Gary Novak) are excellent. The interplay between Corea and...
(Guest post by Mark Stryker, author of Jazz From Detroit.) Like pretty much everyone else within the jazz community, I never contemplated living in a world without Chick Corea. He seemed to be perpetually 55 years old. Whenever you saw him play or spoke
(later of Weather Report) and legendary drummer Roy Haynes, Corea weaves seamlessly through classic early compositions (“Matrix”, “Windows”), standards (Thelonious Monk’s “Pannonica”, “My One and Only Love”) and in-the-moment improvisations (the bulk of the original album and the ...
Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul worked as a free-jazz group several times in the early 1970s, mostly under the name Circle (first as a trio and later joined by Anthony Braxton on reeds). This wasn’t always obvious: their earliest recordings were initially shelve...
Lillestrøm is a city in Norway, about 20 minutes outside of Oslo, and is also the birthplace of a quartet called “Made in Corea”. As the name suggests, the band plays Chick’s music–exclusively, in fact. Chick became aware of them in the early 2000s and in 2005, 4 years afte...
Though he established himself early in his career as a technically dazzling player, Corea was also a restlessly inventive composer-bandleader who never shied away from new ideas. He explored avant-garde jazz with the collective group Circle; upbeat, Latin-influenced material on the albumMy Spanish...
And after spending much of the late ’60s and early ’70s bringing jazz to the FM rock crowd both in Miles Davis’ electric band and as the leader of Return to Forever, in 1976 Corea recorded the albumMy Spanish Heart,a collection that expounded upon his roots in Latin jazz through his...
Chick Corea is 78 years old. He has been cultivating this discourse—between himself, an astonishing list of collaborators, and the audiences for his varied projects—for more than six decades. At a time of life when most people are slowing down, Corea is in the midst of a furious creative...