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Chick & Hiromi: Duet
by Ian Patterson
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 ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea - Hiromi Uehara: Duet
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingReturn to Forever: Return to Forever: The Anthology
by Tom Greenland
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 ...
Continue ReadingThe Anthology
by John Kelman
One of the seminal fusion bands of the 1970s, keyboardist Chick Corea's Return to Forever, alongside like-minded but completely different groups including Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report, not only went to vinyl sales territory few jazz artists had gone before, but to arena tours more normally associated with big ticket rock groups. But the music of RTF was never meant to be intimate. The high velocity and high volume playing was far more fitting ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea: The Ultimate Adventure - Live In Barcelona
by Ernest Barteldes
Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure: Live in Barcelona Concord 2007
A mixture of Latin and Flamenco with jazz was pianist Chick Corea's strategy for this 2007 Barcelona concert from the Palau de Musica. Backed by Jorge Pardo (flute, soprano and alto sax), Carles Benavent (bass), Rubem Dantas (percussion) and Tom Brechtlein (drums), all of whom had also participated on the studio-recorded companion piece of the same name, Corea kicks off the set ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea & Gary Burton: The New Crystal Silence
by Francis Lo Kee
The original Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) was--and still is--one of the strongest early releases on the then relatively new ECM Records. Pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton have been working as a dynamic duo for over 35 years now, releasing many CDs in duo form and with various ensembles. The playing on the original Crystal Silence is almost telepathic and the scope of the compositional direction wide, enough to produce a riveting album never hampered ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea & Gary Burton: The New Crystal Silence
by John Kelman
The circumstances that led to pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton collaborating on Crystal Silence (ECM, 1973) are the definition of serendipitous happenstance. Neither thought the record would have wide appeal, yet it's gone on to become not only a classic for the label, but for both artists, who have since built large discographies with plenty of individual milestones. Recording infrequently as a duo, they've played together every year since that first meeting, with some significant globe-trotting in 2007 ...
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