Jazz Articles about Chick Corea

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Chick Corea: The Complete "Is" Sessions

by Robert Gilbert
January 21, 2003

Where is the dividing line between freedom and chaos in music? A jazz band can largely ignore chords, harmony and a consistent time signature and yet still produce something that’s a coherent and thrilling listen. Another jazz band, by comparison, can take the same approach and play something that’s incoherent and torture to experience.

During three days in May 1969, pianist Chick Corea led a band that managed to achieve both results. In 2002, Blue Note Records collected ...

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Miles Davis: The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions

by Michael Fortuna
December 1, 2001

Miles Davis was an innovator from the moment he first picked up the trumpet. But for years, the public didn't have a clear enough picture of Davis' journey from jazz into the rock/funk sounds of James Brown and Jimi Hendrix as well as his use of electric instruments.At the time, all the public knew of was the funk groove and electric piano sounds of “Stuff" from Miles in the Sky, followed by more electric sounds on Filles de ...

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Miles Davis: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions

by Jim Santella
August 1, 2001

Three previously unissued performances and six months of Miles Davis' recording activity mark this 3-CD set as something special. This was a transitional time for the bandleader. It marked the beginning of a fusion. The package documents this period very well. Davis wanted a new sound. With several keyboards and significant changes in personnel, he got it. The trumpeter introduced his musical changes gradually. The more radical shift would come later. These sessions are pleasant and full of intrigue. In ...

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Miles Davis: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions

by Todd S. Jenkins
June 1, 2001

Another Miles classic re-excavated with grand results. In A Silent Way was an astonishing step further towards a fusion of jazz and rock for Miles Davis, and for jazz in general, when it was released in 1969. The acoustic instruments of Davis, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland and Tony Williams were combined with John McLaughlin’s electric guitar, Joe Zawinul’s organ, and the twin electric pianos of Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Each LP side held a medley of two themes. Miles’ ...

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Chick Corea Trio: Past, Present & Futures

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

As Chick Corea, restless and creative as ever, continues to forge ahead with new musical ideas and new ensemble configurations, he has basically taken his Origin group and reduced it to its percussive core of the basic piano trio. But Corea’s music remains distinctive as always, and his new trio can’t really be mistaken for another.Not only because Corea’s style and his mixture of Latin and jazz are so distinctive. But also because the camaraderie of Origin’s rhythm ...

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Chick Corea New Trio: Past, Present & Futures

by David Adler
May 1, 2001

Putting Origin on the shelf for a moment, Chick Corea sets about getting intimate with the band's rhythm section on this invigorating trio release. Corea also takes this opportunity to premiere 10 entirely new compositions as well as a lively reading of Fats Waller's “Jitterbug Waltz." Together with the phenomenal Avishai Cohen on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums, Corea continues with the kind forward-thinking acoustic jazz that has made Origin so appealing over the last several years. The opening ...

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Chick Corea Trio: Past, Present & Futures

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

As Chick Corea, restless and creative as ever, continues to forge ahead with new musical ideas and new ensemble configurations, he has basically taken his Origin group and reduced it to its percussive core of the basic piano trio. But Corea’s music remains distinctive as always, and his new trio can’t really be mistaken for another.Not only because Corea’s style and his mixture of Latin and jazz are so distinctive. But also because the camaraderie of Origin’s rhythm ...