Jazz Articles about Chick Corea

About Chick Corea

Album Review

Chick Corea uses more through-writing on his latest Origin album, and it works; partly because the composer succeeds in this area of artistic achievement, and partly because his sextet is so laden with talent. With Corea's compositions, you get an intricate painting that captures the details many artists overlook. His arrangements insure that the instrumental voices are working in the fashion intended, and there's still plenty of space left for the sextet's members to stretch out. Adding the marimba to ...

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Chick Corea and Origin: A Week at the Blue Note

by Douglas Payne
March 1, 1999

Like his former boss, Miles Davis, pianist Chick Corea isn't comfortable in one place for too long. Nor, thankfully, does he seem to want to retread his own past. After a lengthy run of his Elektric/Akoustic band (1986-1993), a solo record, several all-star projects and a reunion with Gary Burton (1997's Native Sense ), Corea returns to the group concept with Origin, an interesting acoustic sextet fronted by two reed players (Bob Sheppard, Steve Wilson) and Steve Davis's ...

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Gary Burton: Like Minds

Read "Like Minds" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

When like minds get together, the results can be unpredictable. Will empathy lead to a spirit of freedom and adventure, or will the parallel thought processes translate instead into blandness? Adventure clearly wins the day on Like Minds, vibraphonist Gary Burton’s third release as leader for Concord Jazz. Even with Metheny’s guitar added and Corea’s piano hardly as spare as John Lewis’, the session manifests a beguiling MJQ–like ambiance at slower tempos but shifts easily into high gear to swing ...

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Gary Burton: Like Minds

Read "Like Minds" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
November 1, 1998

By assembling an all-star team of straight-ahead jazz minds, vibraphonist Gary Burton reminds us that musical composition and creative performance interaction soar aloft only when the standards are held high. His 27 years of service with the Berklee College of Music in Boston – including a 10-year tour of duty as dean of curriculum and current position as executive vice president – have undoubtedly influenced the leader’s judgement as to what makes a product valuable.With a light waltz ...

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Gary Burton: Like Minds

Read "Like Minds" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
October 1, 1998

Every once in a great while, the stars align and the muse visit a recording studio to smile beneficently on the musicians assembled there. How else to account for the ineffable chemistry that infuses the best jazz albums? Well the muses were working overtime when vibraphonist Gary Burton arranged the first recording encounter between Chick Corea and guitarist Pat Metheny and recruited an impeccable rhythm section staffed by bassist Dave Holland and drum legend Roy Haynes.Like Minds , ...

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Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea

Read "An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 1, 1998

Pianoforte. Turning forty entitles the birthday person to a couple of acquired appreciations. One for good cigars and the second is for music listened to but not understood in adolescence. An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea is just such music. I was sixteen and bored with Southern Rock and decided I would try jazz out. The first jazz disc I ever bought was Stanley Clarke's first record. Through Clarke I was introduced to Return to Forever and thus ...

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Chick Corea and Origin: Live at the Blue Note

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1998

One thing that must be said about Chick Corea: musically, the man does not stand still. Whether one is going in his direction is another issue altogether. Chick's newest group, Origin, was recorded during a week-long gig in December '97 at New York's celebrated Birdland nightspot. It's a tight sextet with an exuberant front line - saxophonists Bob Sheppard and Steve Wilson, trombonist Steve Davis - capably supported by Corea, bassist Cohen and drummer Cruz. The band opens the set ...