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Corea, born of Italian and Spanish descent, was introduced to the pinao aged four by his jazz trumpet playing father. Surrounded by jazz music Corea’s early influences were from bebop stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Lester Young. After learning the drums – which would influence Corea’s use of the piano as a percussion instrument – he was taught by the concert pianist Salvatore Sullo, adding a classical composition string to the musician’s bow.
Corea gained a heap of musical experience in the 1960s playing with the bands of Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Man and Stan Getz. Through such experience the pianist made his recording debut in 1966 with “Tones for Joan’s Bone” a hard bop album with a explosive and propulsive energy.
In 1968 Corea joined Miles Davis’ band and released the albums “Filles de Kilimanjaro” and “In a Silent Way” introducing an avant grade playing style with elements of free jazz improvisation. The 70s spelled an electric, experimental period, after departing from the avant-garde acoustic act Circle, Corea formed the Brazilian fusion band Return to Forever, played a number of duet tours with Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock, and composed his own classical pieces.
From 1985 Corea formed the fusion group the Elektric Band and to even out his music style the band Akoustic Trio a few years later. The jazzman’s ability to continue to develop and explore new styles of music and fuse handfuls of music influences is what has defined Corea a tour de force in modern jazz. He signed a deal with GRP Records in 1989 which released ten of Corea’s subsequent albums, started his own label titled Stretch Recordsin 1992, and began taking a big interest in classical music.
Early in the new millennium the pianist and composer released a string of piano and jazz albums from “Solo Piano: Originals” (2000), “Past, Present & Futures” (2001), “Rendezvous in New York” (2003), “To the Stars” (2004) and “The Ultimate Adventure” (2006). As well as collaborations with banjoist Béla Fleck, vibraphonist Gary Burton and a series of power-trio recordings titled “Five Trios”.
In 2008 Corea re-joined forces with John McLaughlin who he had played with in Miles Davis’ band, who with a host of other musicians recorded “Five Peace Band: Live” and led to the label Concord rereleasing Return to Forever’s four albums. A few years later in 2012, alongside Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian, he recorded and released “Further Exploration”, and Deutsche Gramophone issued “Corea: The Continents Concerto for Jazz Quintet and Chamber Orchestra in February. Chick Corea & The Vigil has been the pianist’s most recent endeavour featuring bassist Hadrien Feraud and Marcus Gilmore on drums.
The jazz icon has been nominated for 59 Grammy Award of which he has won twenty, his 1968 album “How He Sings, How He Sobs” has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and Corea continues to be one of the most influential jazz players of modern times.
Live-Bewertungen
Well. I am sad to say that after decades of following Chick I have to admit, this was not his best gig. Since I am also a pianist and jazz enthusiast, and have many hours of stage time, an old familiar set of phrases come to mind. “Milk it,” and “Fooled em, again.” But wait, Chick you didn’t fool me. Lots of noodling, interrupted by an occasional Wow that said these guys were still the talents you always knew, but unfortunately this was an easy money stop on the way to another gig, and one that would pay for an overnight in Austin. Heck maybe it was a paid practice for something better. Dunno. But Austin isn’t known for a huge following of jazz lovers. Tsck Tsck. You can believe what you will about these guys, and you don’t know me from Adam, but at least keep what I said as a possibility so you won’t be completely surprised. I personally believe that those who fall under the prodigy category, should work harder at keeping a live performance as something special, or simply stop touring. Chick is a prodigy but not so good at teaching others to improve their game. A player only. But a known good one. Therefore he needs to be better a faking me out, for me to bother going to see him. My 2 cents.
carl-eckhardt
Armando Anthony Corea may not be a universally recognisable household name to the majority yet for anybody with interests in jazz will know the stage name Chick Corea within an instance. Billed as one of the most influential jazz performers of the 20th century, Armando has enjoyed a glittering career that spans fifty years. With varying commercial and critical success and an admirable dedication to the music, he continues to tour live now well into his 70s.
As he is still ably bodied and musically talented it would seem foolish for him to take an early retirement when he clearly enjoys taking to the piano so much. The audience sits within the auditorium in quiet excitement as they watch Corea bring his long discography to life with his comrade of musicians. All attain an equally high level of skill and harmonise wonderfully throughout the night. The venue's acoustics offer rich tones and carry the vocal well which is notably less powerful than during Corea's heyday yet it still has those synonymous tones. He is clearly a master of a craft and after 90 minutes of live performance he has supplied clear and solid evidence.
sean-ward
I was lucky enough to get to see Chick Corea in Spain live at Montreux in 2004. He was just as talented as ever before, his jazz fusion was new and exciting to those in attendance who had never experienced it before. The audience started loud and rowdy, cheering for Chick, but once he started playing they fell silent.
He played slowly, softly, and beautifully. The combination of Latin and jazz slowly began to come out and be heard as we sat transfixed. The guitar played fast and impressive riffs. The piano answered them in style.Even with the enchanting music the audience could not stay dead silent, here and there people let out little cheers, until finally a full combination of the band came together for loud, fun jazz funk, and the whole audience cheered together.
Chick put on a great show that continued into the night with everyone loving every second of it. It was an impressive set for an impressive man. I loved that show and I think everyone in the audience loved it too. I would highly recommend a Chick Corea show for anyone who thinks they might even remotely be a fan of his style of jazz music.
American jazz artist Armando Anthony Corea, known professionally as Chick Corea, is the half Italian, half Spanish musical wonder that has been gracing jazz circles of the music industry for decades, since the early 60s. Since making his recording debut in 1966 Corea has risen from height to height and is regraded today as one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians of the twentieth century. He is a wonder on stage, age having no limits on his musical ability. A talented pianist, keyboard player and composer he wows the audience from the moment he steps on to stage with a whole host of skills. His combination of jazz music fused with Latin and pop is breath taking and the whole audience remained silent, in awe, during his entire show. He is truly captivating on stage and it was brilliant to see such a legend perform live, especially in a relatively intimate setting in which you could really hear the instruments as refined and delicate rather than hearing them on loud speakers.
sabraziz
Fantastic! Great performance by all 3 musicians. The perfect venue for Chick Corea, Dave Weckel and last but certainly not the least, John Patatucci ; all monster performers. They were AWESOME!
The acoustics were perfect. No feed back issues, no distortions of any type.
I wished for a few more tunes to be played; but they had to play a second show.
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