Chick Corea, the ebullient and eternally youthful pianist, bandleader and composer, turned 70 this year. Being a jazz musician, he's bound by custom to celebrate this mile marker on the bandstand, aglow in retrospection. Had there been a corporate-sponsored jazz festival in New York this summer, he probably would have headlined Carnegie Hall...
JAZZ pianists spend a lot of time alone with their craft, and often just as much in the context of a rhythm section. It's less common for them to sit down and make music with each other, though it does happen every now and then. (It happened a lot in the 1930s among Harlem stride masters, behind closed doors, in clubby camaraderie.) The scarcity is...
Return to Forever IV showed off every which way on Friday night at the Beacon Theater. Otherwise the group wouldn't have been doing its job. Jazz-rock fusion, as pioneered by previous lineups of Return to Forever in the 1970s, glorifies confrontational virtuosity. Composers show off by writing breakneck melodies, sudden meter shifts and...
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (født 12. juni 1941) er en amerikansk pianist, komponist og orkesterleder.
Han regnes blandt de førende klaviaturspillere i sin generation. Hans stil er Perkusiv og energisk med et meget bestemt, rytmisk præget anslag på klaveret.
Som komponist spænder han over et bredt register, fra jazzprægede sange til mere gennemkomponerede værker for forskellige besætninger. Hans interesse for latinamerikansk musik er tydelig i hans kompositioner. Han spiller tilligemed også trommesæt , percussion, vibrafon og trompet.