Jazz Articles about Chick Corea

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Big Band: Live in Molde, Rhapsody in Blue, Pola

by Judith Insell
May 29, 2006

Chick Corea and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra Live in Molde MNJ 2006 Michel Camilo Rhapsody in Blue Telarc 2006 Now Orchestra with Marilyn Crispell Pola Victo 2005 When three established jazz pianists pair up with three large ensembles, how could you go wrong? In these three cases ...

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Chick Corea Trio: Gatineau, Canada 04/26/06

by John Kelman
May 3, 2006

Chick Corea Trio Theatre, Casino du Lac Leamy Gatineau, Quebec April 26, 2006 On entering the theatre of the Casino du Lac Leamy for pianist Chick Corea's eagerly anticipated show, the first surprise was that, along with the grand piano, there was both a Fender Rhodes and Moog synthesizer on stage. Clearly this wasn't going to be an all-acoustic show along the lines of the recently released Super Trio (Stretch/Universal Classics and Jazz Japan, ...

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Chick Corea / Steve Gadd / Christian McBride: Super Trio

by John Kelman
May 1, 2006

He may be in his mid-sixties, but pianist Chick Corea hasn't slowed down in the least. In the past five years there's been a monumental three-week run at New York's Blue Note, focusing a bright light on acoustic ensembles past and present and beautifully documented on the ten-DVD set Rendezvous in New York (Image Entertainment, 2005). Corea re-formed his powerhouse Elektric Band for an album--To the Stars (Stretch, 2004)--and tour. He reunited with members of Paco de Lucia's band for ...