Chick Corea

"Creating this composition for Mika Yoshida was a pure joy. Her only request to the composer was to have "groove" be part of the composition...The piece was written so it could be performed with the exactly written notes or with the players freely interpreting their parts and improvising their solos. Mika brings a joyful enthusiasm to the marimba that is captivating and, being a marimba enthusiast myself, I spent some time playing my marimba at home to help me conjure the phrases that make up...Read Full Story

The story behind a modern jazz standard The son of a trumpeter in a Dixieland band, the virtuosic keyboardist Chick Corea is revered as one of the principal alchemists in the fusion of jazz with rock, funk, and Latin music. After recording his seminal 1968 album, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, he replaced Herbie Hancock as the piano chair in Miles Davis’s band—the band that recorded such classic albums as Bitches Brew. throughout his eclectic career, Corea has collaborated with vibraphonist...Read Full Story

You are here: Home » Pop Culture » Posted on 10. Apr, 2010 by Tom Milson in Pop Culture | Twitter: @ | Not sure what’s happening with me on this one, but it seems like the more I listen to it, the better To The Stars gets. To The Stars simply put is one of Chick Corea’s best CDs to date. I wish it weren’t the case but, it’s not everyday that I get a CD from an artist that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just can’t...Read Full Story

Posted on 01. Nov, 2011 by provision in Jazz Piano Lessons  Loading ... ‘Spain’ (Chick Corea) – jazz piano lesson. I did this about 7 years ago, and it has been kicking around the web since then. I recorded the bass and drum tracks first, and improvised the piano part later. I tried another method of annotating, using a ‘spotlight’ effect to highlight the section of music being referred to in the text. Again, the audio on this video has been spoilt – on the first solo section, there...Read Full Story

Chick Corea - A Week At The Blue Note (1998) 1998 | Jazz | FLAC (Img,cue,log,scans) | lossless | 2.35 GBRead Full Story