Legendary jazz pianist, composer and 22-time Grammy Award winner Chick Corea turned 75 in June, and has been celebrating this milestone with a series of dates at The Blue Note Jazz Club, featuring ...
Paul Wiancko has lived the double life of composer and performer for a long time. Deeply inspired to excel at both by the late jazz giant Chick Corea — with whom he collaborated — Wiancko often looks ...
There is a 43-year age difference between jazz-and-beyond icon Chick Corea and rising star Gerald Clayton. But the mutual admiration between these two genre-leaping keyboard dynamos — who each perform ...
Chelsea-born, Everett-raised Chick Corea has been playing piano since he was about 4, since the day his mom brought a piano home from a funeral. Corea doesn’t know the particulars of that story. Nor ...
A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 23-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic ...
Restless creativity being the genre's prime directive, not many jazz bands, relatively speaking, last long -- no matter how great they are. And since there are no albums out from the Chick Corea ...
Chick Corea is nothing if not adaptable. Though his first career breakthroughs came on the acoustic piano, the Chelsea native recalls the night in the late 1960s when he showed up onstage, as part of ...
, displayed on a shelf in his living room. Burton, 70, earned these accolades slowly and steadily, adding at least one per decade: two in the 1970s, one in the ‘80s, one in the ‘90s, two in the 2000s.
Chick Corea was a protean musician. Like Miles Davis, with whom he worked on the seminal 1969 album “In a Silent Way,” he explored many different types of music: straight-ahead piano with his band ...
In memory of NEA Jazz Master Chick Corea: 1941-2021. This article was first published at All About Jazz in 2004. Pianist Chick Corea is one of the major pioneers of fusion, with his influence since ...