Jazz Articles about Chick Corea

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Chick Corea: Rendezvous in New York

by AAJ Staff
December 11, 2005

Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York (10-DVD box set) Image Entertainment ID1796IEDVD 2005

For three consecutive weeks, Chick Corea celebrated his 60th birthday. Nine different ensembles of his choosing held sway at New York's Blue Note two nights each week. Perhaps better to having been there, this ten-DVD/559-minute package not only has saved you a load of dough, but the audio and video excellence takes you to priceless viewing and listening positions over musicians' ...

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Chick Corea & Touchstone: Rhumba Flamenco: Live in Europe

by John Kelman
November 9, 2005

Chick Corea's recent ten-DVD release, Rendezvous in New York, is a comprehensive look at his acoustic jazz projects over the past four decades, but anyone following his career knows it only paints part of the picture. And it's not just the complex rhetoric of Corea's fusion efforts, like Return to Forever and the Elektric Band, that complete the picture. Latin music has long been a key element in Corea's music. Return to Forever, in fact, began as an examination of ...

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Chick Corea: Rendezvous In New York

by Mark Sabbatini
October 26, 2005

Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York Image Entertainment ID1796IEDVD 2005

This may not be the ultimate Chick Corea collection, but fans aren't likely to find a better one on video anytime soon.

A near-complete portrait of the legendary pianist's non-fusion career is captured on the 10-DVD Rendezvous In New York boxed set, featuring performances from his three-week run of reunion concerts at the New York's Blue Note in 2003 to ...

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Chick Corea: Rendezvous in New York

by John Kelman
October 25, 2005

Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York Image Entertainment ID1796IEDVD 2005 Legendary pianist Chick Corea sure knows how to throw a party. Most people, when they hit a milestone birthday like sixty, they go out for an extra special dinner or get together with some of their closest friends. But, of course, many of Corea's closest friends are musicians, and over a forty year career he's amassed an impressive group ...

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Checking in with Chick

by Ty Cumbie
October 30, 2004

Like his hero Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea's presence in jazz is impossible to avoid. Anyone who takes interest in Miles Davis' fusion groups of the '70s is aware that Corea played on Davis' monumental 1969 record Bitches Brew. Avant-garde-ists interested in Anthony Braxton will be familiar with the '70s group Circle, with Corea, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul. Acoustic jazz lovers will certainly be acquainted with Corea's great trio featuring Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes. 1981's Trio Music: Live in ...

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Chick Corea Elektric Band: To The Stars

by Chris May
September 18, 2004

Here's a question. How could an artist with as much talent as Chick Corea--for the pretty and the trippy ( In A Silent Way ) and the flaming and the visceral ( Miles Davis Live At The Fillmore East 1970 ) and, some thirty years later, for the sophisticated and the swinging ( Origin: Live At The Blue Note ), with many a sublime moment in between--how could such an artist put his name to an album as shallow, mechanistic ...

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Chick Corea Elektric Band: To The Stars

by Jim Santella
September 8, 2004

The fiction of L. Ron Hubbard provided the inspiration for this new album. Chick Corea wrote the music to express his feelings about the adventures and the mysticism that surrounds the writer's intergalactic spirit.

Corea's Elektric Band is in fine form. With guests, they interpret each scene with characteristic authority. Samba, mambo, tango, calypso, and other hip rhythms carry them on a contemporary adventure of funk and groove.

Frank Gambale forges a searing rite of passage ...