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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Chick Corea

Chick Corea's three decade career is an amalgamation of musical experiences. Born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Massachusetts on June 12, 1941, he was studying piano by age four and enjoyed a childhood home filled with the sounds of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Lester Young and Horace Silver - in addition to Beethoven and Mozart, who inspired Corea's compositional instincts.

In 1996, Chick Corea's collaboration with Sony Classical and Bobby McFerrin produced The Mozart Sessions (SK 62601), an album featuring the unique jazz improvisations and vocal overdubs of Corea and McFerrin respectively, which make for a fresh and engaging approach to two of Mozart's Piano Concertos. The disc also includes an improvisation on Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 2. McFerrin and Corea are old friends and colleagues (they recorded a live jazz album together about 6 years ago).

Corea's most recent release on Sony Classical includes his piano concerto, performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Steven Mercurio and Spain, a work for piano, drums, two saxophones, bass and trombone. The album (SK 61799) was released this autumn.

Corea's earliest compositions were recorded during one of his first professional stints, three years with trumpeter Blue Mitchell ('64-'66), which led up to the pianist's first date as a leader, Tones for Jones Bones. Early gigs with the likes of Willie Bobo, Cal Tjader, Herbie Mann and Mongo Santamaria instilled a love of Latin music still prevalent in much of Corea's early work. After a year accompanying Sara Vaughan, he rose to true prominence in the jazz world by joining Miles Davis' band playing electric piano. In the few years with Davis, Corea played on the groundbreaking classic fusion recordings Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way.

Discography:

- New Crystal Silence: Duet
- Before Forever
2008 Duet (Chick Corea/Hiromi Uehara)
2007 From Miles
2007 Enchantment [Bonus Track]
2007 Enchantment
2007 Chillin' in Chelan
2006 Ultimate Adventure
2005 To the Stars [Tour Edition]
2005 My Spanish Heart [Japan 2005]
2004 To the Stars
2004 Song of Singing [Japan]
2004 Return to Forever [Gold Disc]
2003 Rendezvous in New York [Japan]
2003 Rendezvous in New York
2003 My Spanish Heart [Japan 2003]
2003 Akoustic Band [Japan]
2002 Sea Breeze
2002 Now He Sings, Now He Sobs [Japan]
2001 Three Quartets [Bonus Tracks]
2001 Past, Present & Futures [Japan]
2001 Past, Present & Futures
2000 Solo Piano: Standards [Japan]
2000 My Spanish Heart [Verve]
2000 Live from Blue Note Tokyo
2000 In Concert
2000 Corea.Concerto
1999 Change [Bonus Track]
1997 Remembering Bud Powell
1997 Native Sense: The New Duets
1997 Circle 1: Live in Germany
1996 Live from the Country Club
1996 Live from Elario's
1995 Time Warp
1993 Paint the World
1993 Hot Licks: Seabreeze
1993 Expressions
1992 Live in Tokyo
1991 Beneath the Mask
1991 Alive
1990 Inside Out
1989 Akoustic Band
1988 Now He Sings, Now He Sobs [Bonus Tracks]
1988 Eye of the Beholder
1987 Light Years
1986 Elektric Band
1984 Voyage
1984 Trio Music: Live in Europe
1984 Septet
1983 Children's Songs
1982 Touchstone
1982 Meeting
1982 Lyric Suite for Sextet
1982 Again and Again
1981 Trio Music
1981 Three Quartets
1981 Live in Montreux
1981 Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner
1979 Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert (Zurich, October 28, 1979)
1978 Tap Step
1978 Secret Agent
1978 Mad Hatter
1978 Friends
1978 Delphi I: Solo Piano Improvisations
1978 Corea/Hancock
1978 Chick & Lionel Live at Midem
1976 My Spanish Heart
1975 Leprechaun
1974 Live in New York (1974)
1972 Return to Forever
1971 Piano Improvisations, Vol. 2
1971 Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1
1971 A.R.C.
1970 Song of Singing
1969 Sundance
1969 Is
1968 Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
1967 Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon
1967 Fiesta
1966 Tones for Joan's Bones
1966 Inner Space

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