Jazz Articles about Chick Corea

Chick Corea & Gary Burton: The New Crystal Silence

by Chris May
February 6, 2008

Time flies when you're having fun. 2007 marked the 35th anniversary of pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton's duo, and 2009 will be the 30th anniversary of the pair's first album, Crystal Silence (ECM, 1972).

To celebrate the occasions, Corea and Burton have released a double-disc, quasi-greatest hits collection recorded live in Australia and Norway in 2007. The first disc finds the duo in concert with the Sydney Symphony orchestra, while the second features them on their ...

Chick Corea and Gary Burton Bring 35th Anniversary Show to London

by John Eyles
July 10, 2007

Chick Corea and Gary Burton 35th Anniversary Crystal Silence TourBarbican CentreLondon, EnglandJune 30, 2007 As they took to the Barbican stage, they were announced as “Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Crystal Silence." This tour marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Corea and Burton first playing together. (As Burton told the audience, “It was at an impromptu jam session at the end of a German festival. We were the only two who responded to ...

Chick Corea / Bela Fleck: The Enchantment

by Stephen Wood
June 3, 2007

It is not obvious that music is always musical. Formulaic repetition of past innovations quickly become recognizably trite and, to most ears, off-putting. The duo setting presses a brutal honesty between musicians that has historically not only kept curdled tendencies at bay but has also pushed forth innovation. Jazz musicians of the finest reputation, including guitarists Jim Hall, Joe Pass and Pat Metheny, and pianists Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau, have forged platinum grails of the jazz tradition in this ...

Portland Jazz Festival, Day 1: February 16, 2007

by John Kelman
February 24, 2007

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 February may seem like an odd time to have a jazz festival in the Pacific Northwest, but in many ways the Portland Jazz Festival is held at the perfect time. The weather may be damp, but compared to the Northeast, it's a relatively balmy 50-60 degrees. In four short years, Artistic Director Bill Royston and Managing Director Sarah Bailen Smith have created a festival that is international in nature yet ...

Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Live at Montreux 1997

by Jerry D'Souza
December 24, 2006

Chick Corea and Gary Burton Live at Montreux 1997 Eagle Vision 2006/1997

When Chick Corea and Gary Burton got together to play at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1997, they were no strangers. They had recorded Crystal Silence in 1972 and then went on to three more recording collaborations. In both their minds, they could play as a duo in an instant, and when the opportunity came at Montreux, they rekindled the old flame ...

Chick Corea / Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Live in Molde

by John Kelman
December 21, 2006

2006 seems to be a significant year for jazz's elder statespersons. Pianist Andrew Hill has seen a year full of recordings: new music, reissues and previously unreleased material, as well as an outstanding tribute by guitarist Nels Cline. Chick Corea, who's a few years younger than Hill, has released a new record and toured with trios focusing on his back catalog. Super Trio (Stretch, 2006) documented a tour where the pianist was clearly in control of the arrangements; however, Live ...

Chick Corea: Secret Agent

by John Kelman
June 26, 2006

1978 was an almost impossibly active year for Chick Corea. Over the previous two years the keyboardist had moved away from the guitar-powered Romantic Warrior-era Return to Forever towards the larger, horn-driven incarnation responsible for 1977's Musicmagic. While he'd dissolve that version of the group after one tour and a live album, it was in many ways a consolidation, reflecting the growing interest in orchestration that began with 1975's The Leprechaun.

Given the half-dozen Corea albums released in 1978, it's ...