Chick Corea

Chick Corea, Miles Davis, FazJaz, Fragile and Gary Willis

by Len Davis
November 10, 2024

From the Live In The Sky series in Japan Chick Corea and Miles Davis. Japanese bands FazJaz and Fragile, Netherlnds pianist Frans Vollink, keyboard player Gary Husband with Mark Mondesir and Mike Mondesir and we finish with bassist Gary Willis. Playlist Chick Corea Band “Nice Shot" from Live Under The Sky 1980 (Equinox) 00:00 Miles Davis Band “One Phone Call-Street Scenes" from Live Under The Sky 1987 (Equinox Time Marker FazJaz “The Eye Of The Hurricane" from Distortional ...

The Sound of the Fender Rhodes, Part 2

by Len Davis
October 13, 2024

Continuing with part 2 of our show inspired by Chris May's article Ten Supreme Fender Rhodes Albums. Part 2 includes music by Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Brian Blade, Nik Bartsch and Donald Byrd. Listen to part 1, here. Playlist Stan Getz “Captain Marvel" from Feeling Swing (Verve) 00:00 Chick Corea & Return To Forever “500 Miles High" from Light As A Feather (Polydor) 10:23 Herbie Hancock" Vein Melter" from Head Hunters (Columbia) 20:46 Brian Blade Fellowship ...

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck: Remembrance

by Doug Collette
May 22, 2024

As much as master banjoist Bela Fleck loves to play, he loves to perform with other like-minded musicians virtually as much. Consequently, in addition to his long-standing role as leader of The Flecktones ensemble, he has continued to explore his love of the bluegrass music by which he first made a name for himself, My Bluegrass Heart (Renew, 2021), but also ventured far afield to collaborate with equally adventuresome creative partners like Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain for As We ...

Bassist Tom Kennedy, Chick Corea Elektrik Band, Oz Noy

by Len Davis
November 17, 2023

New music from bassist Tom Kennedy from New Start, Latin sounds from Tico Y Aguabajo, Chick Corea Elektrik Band The Future Is Now, Katsushito Trio with Tetsuo Sakurai,  Italian guitarist Marco Sfogli, and Oz Noy from Triple Play. The Devine King Project Vol 1, guitarist Ron Bosse and a section on Japanese bands including Taku Yabuki with Modern World Symphony#3 Jizue with Biotop and Ear Candy Jazz Factory Tangerine Peel Jam. Playlist Tom Kennedy “Espiritu del Songo" from New Start (Self ...

The Electric Years Box Set

by Mike Jurkovic
November 9, 2023

In a year that has brought us a true bounty of previously unheard majesty including Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy (Impulse!), and Bill Evans; Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings from Denmark (1965-1969), (Elemental Music) it is only fitting that Miles Davis get his due. And in a very, very big way. Seared into modern memory, modern art, the music presented on the gloriously massive, eleven LP set Miles Davis: The Electric Years ...

A.R.C.: A.R.C.

by Mike Jurkovic
September 18, 2023

Without the exploding theorems of multi-reedist/composer/alchemist Anthony Braxton, A.R.C., the multifarious rhythm trio of Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, continue the grand work of the short-lived (but most esteemed) quartet Circle on this 1971 reissue and remaster of the exploratory and free flying A.R.C. Corea, who, after a short solo turn would soon break the realm with Return To Forever is especially feisty here, as too is Holland, who would a year hence record Conference of ...

Chick Corea: Sardinia

by Mike Jurkovic
September 2, 2023

Coming amid a flurry of Chick Corea titles set for release in 2023--Candid Records' 10-LP set, Chick Corea Electric Band: The Complete Studio Recordings 1986-1991; the previously unreleased, Corea curated, 2-CD live Electric Band The Future Is Now and ECM's re-release of the pianist's first session for the label as a leader with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, A.R.C. (1971)--it could be easy to overlook the exquisite music heard on Sardinia. But let's not. For there is something ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today!

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 23-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He's also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category. From straight ahead ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today!

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 23-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He's also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category. From straight ahead ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today!

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 23-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He's also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category. From straight ahead ...
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Interview: Chick Corea on Fusion

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 16, 2021

Back in 2011, I interviewed Chick Corea for JazzWax on the rise of jazz fusion in the late 1960s and the formation of his seminal avant-garde and electric groups. Chick's passing last week was a major loss for jazz and for music. In addition to being a dynamic force in traditional acoustic jazz and in jazz-rock, he was a participant and witness to the shifting music landscape in the late 1960s and early '70s as jazz interpreted rock, FM radio ...
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Chick Corea (1941-2021)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 13, 2021

Chick Corea, one of the most spirited and heralded jazz keyboardists and composers of the rock era who launched a mystical form of psychedelic jazz fusion in the early 1970s that influenced a generation of young musicians, died on February 9. He was 79. Chick was enormously prolific. Not a day went by that he didn't spend hours at the piano writing and recording in his studio. When he wasn't in the studio, he was performing tirelessly on the road, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today!

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 22-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He's also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category. From straight ahead ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today!

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 22-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He\'s also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today!

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 22-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He\'s also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today!

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 22-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He\'s also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category... Read more.

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Chick Corea at 75

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 14, 2016

Pianist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea (born June 21, 1941) continues the long celebration of his 75th birthday, currently at his frequent New York headquarters the Blue Note. Corea’s career has brought him together with virtually every major figure in modern jazz. We congratulate him and wish him many more years of the creativity, daring and joyous expression that have made his work an inspiration for musicians and a source of deep satisfaction for listeners. Let’s listen to “Matrix” from ...
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