Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA, on … Read Full Bio ↴Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA, on June 12, 1941, died February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta" and "Windows", are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed the fusion band Return to Forever. Along with Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Keith Jarrett, Corea has been described as one of the major jazz piano voices to emerge in the post-John Coltrane era. He continued to pursue other collaborations and to explore musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Of southern Italian and Spanish descent, Corea began studying piano at age four. At eight he took up drums. Over his career, he became one of the most prolific and acclaimed jazz artists from the second half of the 20th century, with contributions to most forms of modern music, including straight-ahead jazz, electric fusion, avant-garde and orchestral music. In 2010 he entered the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame and was named Artist of the Year.
As a member of Miles Davis's band in the 1960s, and later as founder of Return to Forever, he participated in the birth of the electric fusion movement. In the 1980s he helped expand jazz with the Chick Corea Elektric Band and the Chick Corea Akoustic Band.
In 2008, the third version of Return to Forever (Corea, keyboards; Stanley Clarke, bass; Lenny White, drums; Al Di Meola, guitar) reunited for a worldwide tour.
A new group, the Five Peace Band, began a world tour in October 2008.
Chick Corea's 75th birthday, Corea and John McLaughlin, Blue Note Jazz Club, New York City, 10 December 2016
A new group, the Five Peace Band, began a world tour in October 2008. Corea had worked with McLaughlin in Davis's late 1960s bands, including the group that recorded Davis's album Bitches Brew. Joining Corea and McLaughlin were saxophonist Kenny Garrett and bassist Christian McBride. Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta played with the band in Europe and on select North American dates; Brian Blade played all dates in Asia and Australia, and most dates in North America. The variety of Corea's music was celebrated in a 2011 retrospective with Corea playing 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 sounded like a band, and Mr. Corea had no need to dominate; his authority was clear without raising volume."[20]
A new band for 2013, Chick Corea & The Vigil, featured Corea with bassist Hadrien Feraud, Marcus Gilmore on drums (carrying on from his grandfather, Roy Haynes), saxes, flute, and bass clarinet from Tim Garland, and guitarist Charles Altura.
Corea celebrated his 75th birthday in 2016 by playing with more than 20 different groups during a six-week stand at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Greenwich Village,
Of southern Italian and Spanish descent, Corea began studying piano at age four. At eight he took up drums. Over his career, he became one of the most prolific and acclaimed jazz artists from the second half of the 20th century, with contributions to most forms of modern music, including straight-ahead jazz, electric fusion, avant-garde and orchestral music. In 2010 he entered the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame and was named Artist of the Year.
As a member of Miles Davis's band in the 1960s, and later as founder of Return to Forever, he participated in the birth of the electric fusion movement. In the 1980s he helped expand jazz with the Chick Corea Elektric Band and the Chick Corea Akoustic Band.
In 2008, the third version of Return to Forever (Corea, keyboards; Stanley Clarke, bass; Lenny White, drums; Al Di Meola, guitar) reunited for a worldwide tour.
A new group, the Five Peace Band, began a world tour in October 2008.
Chick Corea's 75th birthday, Corea and John McLaughlin, Blue Note Jazz Club, New York City, 10 December 2016
A new group, the Five Peace Band, began a world tour in October 2008. Corea had worked with McLaughlin in Davis's late 1960s bands, including the group that recorded Davis's album Bitches Brew. Joining Corea and McLaughlin were saxophonist Kenny Garrett and bassist Christian McBride. Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta played with the band in Europe and on select North American dates; Brian Blade played all dates in Asia and Australia, and most dates in North America. The variety of Corea's music was celebrated in a 2011 retrospective with Corea playing 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 sounded like a band, and Mr. Corea had no need to dominate; his authority was clear without raising volume."[20]
A new band for 2013, Chick Corea & The Vigil, featured Corea with bassist Hadrien Feraud, Marcus Gilmore on drums (carrying on from his grandfather, Roy Haynes), saxes, flute, and bass clarinet from Tim Garland, and guitarist Charles Altura.
Corea celebrated his 75th birthday in 2016 by playing with more than 20 different groups during a six-week stand at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Greenwich Village,
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raul macias
Poem by CHICK COREA ~
NOW HE SINGS, NOW HE SOBS ~ 1968
Clinging to Beauty; Clinging to Ugliness
Depending on Love and Loving; lingering with hate and hating
Rejoicing to high heaven; then sad unto death
Now he sings, now he sobs
Now he beats the drum; now he stops
During the course of steps, he learns The Law-of-Falling -and-Catching-Up
He begins to see how What Was always always was and changes as its waves of energy converge to form a new tonal matrix from which he comes again
Because he sees, with great clarity, The Law-of-Falling-and-Catching-Up, he completes the steps in the right time and mounts toward the Matrix from which he originally came.
Mr. Corea's writings inspired by I Ching ~ The Book Of Changes.
Thomas Di Salvo
This is one of the best trio performances - all three are locked together, sympathetic, moving as one - agree this is one of the shining examples of improvised 20th century music. Chick Corea is so masterful one takes his unerring playing for granted. Have never heard him play anything out of time or without taste. One of the greatest set of ears in jazz history as well. Tom Di Salvo
Henry Robinett
My favorite musician. Totally Inspirational. Brilliant. Thank you Chick. RIP.
John Strange
I love how they mixed this with the ride cymbal right in the center of the mix.
monsterjazzlicks
@Alexandra Leh I have a lot of Van Gelders material - eg. Coltrane.
Alexandra Leh
@monsterjazzlicks Teo was great–he recorded my father, jazz guitarist George Barnes, at NYC's Town Hall. And there are other engineers with incredible ears and taste, like Don, who have treated the music the way it deserved to be treated: Phil Ramone (one of my godfathers, who trained Don), Rudy van Gelder, going all the way back to pioneers Bill Putnam and Bob Fine.
monsterjazzlicks
@Alexandra Leh I have never heard of DH before? Teo Macero (Miles) is my all time favourite 👍
Alexandra Leh
@monsterjazzlicks The album was recorded at A&R Recording in New York; the engineer was the masterful Don Hahn, who died this past Saturday.
monsterjazzlicks
I have no idea if Corea was involved in the mixing or production process here? As far as I am aware there is no mention of his contribution in this regard. Of course, this was to change very much so in the coming years...
raul macias
Poem by CHICK COREA ~
NOW HE SINGS, NOW HE SOBS ~ 1968
Clinging to Beauty; Clinging to Ugliness
Depending on Love and Loving; lingering with hate and hating
Rejoicing to high heaven; then sad unto death
Now he sings, now he sobs
Now he beats the drum; now he stops
During the course of steps, he learns The Law-of-Falling -and-Catching-Up
He begins to see how What Was always always was and changes as its waves of energy converge to form a new tonal matrix from which he comes again
Because he sees, with great clarity, The Law-of-Falling-and-Catching-Up, he completes the steps in the right time and mounts toward the Matrix from which he originally came.
Mr. Corea's writings inspired by I Ching ~ The Book Of Changes.
Piratebreadstick
This album belongs to the pantheon of great 20th century music. It's as fresh today as the day it was recorded, and in the half century that has passed, no one in this idiom, not even Chick, has come close to equalling it.