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Keyboardist-composer Chick Corea, who attained stardom as a fusion pioneer and distinguished himself as a do-anything player across the jazz spectrum and beyond, died Tuesday from a rare form of ...
The vast reach of Corea's music was celebrated in a 2011 retrospective with Corea guesting with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; a New York Times reviewer had high praise for the occasion: "Mr. Corea was masterly with the other musicians, absorbing the rhythm and feeding the soloists. It ...
Chick Corea, the creative jazz giant who took his genre to new heights in the 1970s, spearheading the jazz fusion movement, died Tuesday. He was 79. Chick Corea, jazz keyboard giant, dies at 79
Tones for Joan's Bones is the debut album by American jazz pianist Chick Corea, recorded in 1966 and released on Vortex Records—a subsidiary of Atlantic—in April 1968. The quintet features saxophonist Joe Farrell , trumpeter Woody Shaw , and rhythm section Steve Swallow and Joe Chambers .
The Guardian's John Fordham noted "Pianists Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani can both play a lot of notes fast and have occasional tendencies to grandstand. But if they're all over each other in the early stages of this Italian concert, later we hear the mutual understanding and assured rhythmic their time together since 2009 has nurtured". [ 3 ]
To the Stars is an album by American jazz fusion group the Chick Corea Elektric Band, released on August 24, 2004, by Stretch Records. Jazz musician Chick Corea, a longtime member of the Church of Scientology, was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction 1954 novel To the Stars.
Rendezvous in New York is an album by American pianist Chick Corea that was released on April 22, 2003 by Corea's label, Stretch Records. [1] The recording took place at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City over the course of three weeks. [ 1 ]
Chick Corea Compact Jazz (Polydor, 1987) Best of Chick Corea (Blue Note, 1993) Music Forever & Beyond: The Selected Works of Chick Corea 1964 - 1996 (GRP, 1996) – discs 1-4 are a career-spanning retrospective; disc 5 is all-new recordings of standards, and one original, with the Time Warp quartet; Selected Recordings (ECM, 2002)