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Chick Corea en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona
by Enrique Turpin
Chick Corea42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaPalau de la Música6 de noviembre, 2010Bien se sabe que un final de gira ofrece un alto porcentaje de inquietud al asistente a un último concierto hasta más ver. El manojo de sorpresas que deparan citas de esa índole obliga a estudiar la disposición del músico de turno y a especular con predicciones que surgen de los gestos más variopintos, de los matices más nimios, del tropismo ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea Trio at Highland Ballroom October 1, 2010
by David Miller
Chick Corea TrioHighline BallroomNew York City, USAOctober 1, 2010 Well, that was unexpected. Imagine a Chick Corea trio show where the pianist is not the centerpiece of the performance. In fact, his piano plays as much rhythm as the bass and drums. A trio of equals. Then you would have some idea of what was presented at the Highline Ballroom in New York after the rain had finally subsided. Two people at my table who ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea and the Freedom Band at Denver's Botanic Gardens
by Geoff Anderson
Chick Corea and the Freedom BandBotanic GardensDenver, COJune 14, 2010The last couple times Chick Corea came through Denver, he was highly electrified. The summer before last, he performed with the reunion tour of Return to Forever. Last summer, he came through with The 5 Peace Band featuring John McLaughlin. Both of those performances caused brown-outs throughout the metro area. Monday night he returned with 3/5 of The 5 Peace Band, but this time he and ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea: Solo Piano
by John Kelman
It may be Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley who, with Facing You (1972) and Open, To Love (1973) respectively, put ECM on the map for what would become a lifelong focus on the art of solo piano, but it was Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971) and Vol. 2 (1972) that represented the label's first released exploration of a nexus where in-the-moment improvisation and, in some cases, preconceived form could meet to create a new kind of spontaneous composition ...
Continue ReadingCorea, Clarke and White at Toronto's Koerner Hall
by Alain Londes
Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny WhiteKoerner HallToronto, ONSeptember 2009
Koerner Hall, the sumptuous and spiffy new concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, celebrated the second day of its grand opening festival with a sold-out jazz program to demonstrate the organizers' willingness to provide different musical genres to the vast metropolitan community. Audience members of all ages admired the new performance center.Some of the jazz-rock fusion legends making up ...
Continue ReadingCrystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79
by John Kelman
It's a story that's been told before, but it's worth repeating. Pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton were performing individually at a 1972 Munich festival, and ended up as the only two artists at a late night jam session. While the two had attempted working together in the 1960s, it was in a quartet context that never seemed to work--in no small part due to the challenge of combining two chordal instruments without getting in each other's way.
Continue ReadingChick & Hiromi: Duet
by Carl L. Hager
Combined with his abilities as a soloist, Chick Corea's uncanny accompanist's instinct for supporting and focusing the spotlight on another player's efforts has produced celebrated duets with everyone from Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock to John McLaughlin and Bela Fleck. With Hiromi Uehara he has done it again.
Duet captures the two pianists in an engagement at Tokyo's Blue Note club in September of 2007, and finds them repeatedly achieving ecstatic heights of ingenuity and inventiveness. ...
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