Jazz Articles about Chick Corea

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chick Corea: A Deep Dive

by Mark Sabbatini
September 7, 2004

Pianist Chick Corea ranks among a top few in his mastery of jazz dialects, but many among the modern masses speak with his accent. Corea is one of the major pioneers of fusion, and his far-ranging influence since the 1960s includes post-bop, Latin, free-form and avant-garde jazz, as well as classical. He is a rarity in his proficiency and distinctiveness on both piano and synthesizers, and is one of the first players to fully exploit the potential of ...

A Fireside Chat with Chick Corea

by AAJ Staff
September 7, 2004

Individual virtuosity has not forsaken jazz. It is just rarely covered in the mainstream media and is often overwhelmed by the fabricated plastic of pop culture. But I dare hope. Study Chick Corea. Consider his productivity. And admire his artistry. Miles Davis' Bitches Brew , Circle's Paris Concert , Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior, weighed with his extensive achievements for Atlantic, Blue Note, Polydor, ECM, and Concord/Stretch and Corea is beyond question a creative institution. Hope remains.All About ...

Chick Corea Elektric Band: To the Stars

by John Kelman
September 3, 2004

Hard to believe it's been ten years since pianist Chick Corea last did something in an electric vein. During those years he concentrated on a variety of projects, including his sextet Origin, his new trio with Jeff Ballard and Avishai Cohen, and duets with Gary Burton. But like Herbie Hancock, who also spent much of the last ten years in an acoustic context, the allure of a broader sonic canvas never left him completely. And so we have To the ...