Jazz Articles about Chick Corea

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Chick Corea: Solo Piano

by John Kelman
May 18, 2010

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 ...

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Corea, Clarke and White at Toronto's Koerner Hall

by Alain Londes
October 6, 2009

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 ...

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Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79

by John Kelman
September 2, 2009

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.

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Chick & Hiromi: Duet

by Carl L. Hager
April 6, 2009

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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Chick & Hiromi: Duet

by Ian Patterson
March 16, 2009

When Chick Corea invited a then 17-year-old pianist, Hiromi Uehara, to improvise alongside him at the 1996 Tokyo Jazz Festival, it said as much about her already prodigious talent as it did about her confidence. Hiromi has, of course, since earned a world-wide reputation as an exhilarating improviser and performer. Corea, a veteran of over a hundred recordings, has been enjoying a wave of critical acclaim in recent times, almost without precedent in his long and stellar career. So the ...

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Chick Corea - Hiromi Uehara: Duet

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 12, 2008

La giovane pianista giapponese Hiromi Uehara ha sempre considerato Chick Corea uno dei suoi idoli e non si lascia scappare l'occasione di registrare questo doppio album di duetti al pianoforte con il veterano americano. La registrazione è stata effettuata dal vivo a Tokyo, con un pubblico caldissimo che ha coperto di appluasi i due protagonisti fra un brano e l'altro, rispettando con un assoluto silenzio la loro performance. Il repertorio è costituito da standards del jazz e del pop e ...

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Return to Forever: Return to Forever: The Anthology

by Tom Greenland
August 11, 2008

In support of their 2008 reunion tour, Concord Records has released Return to Forever: The Anthology, a selective overview of the quartet's classic 'middle period.' Formed by principal composer/keyboardist Chick Corea, RTF included bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Lenny White and guitarists Bill Connors or Al DiMeola. An alumnus of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), inspired by Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, as well as Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes, Corea recorded two RTF albums with Clarke (a former compatriot ...