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Chick Corea

Background information

Birth name ArmandoAnthony Corea

Born June 12, 1941 [1]

Chelsea, Massachusetts, United

States

Genres Jazz, jazzfusion, post-bop, latin

jazz, classical music, avant-garde

jazz, bebop

Occupation(s) Musician, composer, bandleader

Instruments Piano, keyboards, synthesizers,

organ, vibraphone, drums

Years active 1962present[2]

Labels ECM, Polydor, Stretch, Warner

Bros.

Associated

acts

Return to Forever, Miles Davis,

Five Peace Band, Chaka Khan,

Chick Corea Elektric Band, Chick

Chick CoreaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Armando Anthony"Chick" Corea(born June 12, 1941)[3]

s an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and

omposer.

Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a

member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in

he birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s

he formed Return to Forever.[3]Along with Herbie Hancock,

McCoy Tyner, and Keith Jarrett, he has been described as

one of the major jazz piano voices to emerge in the postJohn

Coltrane era.[4]

Corea continued to pursue other collaborations and to explore

various musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He is

also known for promoting and fundraising for a number of

ocial issues, such as eradicating social illiteracy.[5]

Contents

1 Life and career

1.1 Youth

1.2 Early career

1.3 Avant garde period

1.4 Jazz fusion

1.5 Duet projects

1.6 Later work

2 Scientology

3 Discography

4 Awards

5 See also

6 References

7 External links
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Corea's Akoustic Band, Circle,

Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Joe

Henderson, Hubert Laws, Herbie

Mann, Miroslav Vitous, Blue

Mitchell, Gary Burton, Pat

Metheny, Dave Holland, Eddie

Gmez, John Patitucci, FrankGambale, Anthony Braxton, Hiro

Uehara, Al Di Meola, Herbie

Hancock, Bla Fleck, John

McLaughlin, Brian Blade, Bobby

McFerrin, Steve Gadd

Website www.chickcorea.com

(http://www.chickcorea.com)

Life and career

Youth

Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He is of

outhern Italian and Spanish descent.[6][7]His father, a jazz

rumpet player who had led a Dixieland band in Boston in the930s and 1940s, introduced him to the piano at the age of

our. Growing up surrounded by jazz music, he was

nfluenced at an early age by bebop and stars such as Dizzy

Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, and

Lester Young. At eight Corea also took up drums, which

would later influence his use of the piano as a percussion

nstrument.

Corea developed his piano skills by exploring music on his

own. A notable influence was concert pianist Salvatore Sullo, from whom Corea started taking lessons at ageeight and who introduced him to classical music, helping spark his interest in musical composition. He also

pent several years as a performer and soloist for the St. Rose Scarlet Lancers, a drum and bugle corps based

Chelsea.

Given a black tuxedo by his father, he started playing gigs when in high school. He enjoyed listening to Herb

Pomeroy's band at the time, and had a trio that played Horace Silver's music at a local jazz club.

He eventually decided to move to New York City, where he studied musical education for one month at

Columbia University and six months at Juilliard. He quit after finding both disappointing, but liked the

atmosphere of New York, and the music scene became the starting point for his professional career.

Early career

Corea's first major professional gig was with Cab Calloway. Corea started his professional career in the 1960

playing with trumpeter Blue Mitchell and Latin musicians such as Herbie Mann, Willie Bobo and Mongo

Santamara. One of the earliest recordings of his playing is with Mitchell's quintet on The Thing To Do. This

album features his composition "Chick's Tune", a retooling of "You Stepped Out of a Dream" that demonstra

he angular melodies and Latin-and-swing rhythms that characterize, in part, Corea's personal style.

Incidentally, the same tune features a drum solo by a very young Al Foster.)

His first album as a leader was Tones for Joan's Bonesin 1966, two years before the release of his albumNo

He Sings, Now He Sobs, with Roy Haynes on drums and Miroslav Vitou!on bass.[3]

He made another sideman appearance with Stan Getz on 1967's Sweet Rain(Verve Records).[3]

Avant garde period
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Chick Corea, 2007

From 1968 to 1971 Corea had associations with avant garde players, and his

olo style revealed a dissonant orientation. His avant garde playing can be heard

on his solo works of the period, his solos in live recordings under the leadership

of Miles Davis, his recordings with Circle, and his playing on Joe Farrell's Song

of the Windalbum on CTI Records.

n September 1968 Corea replaced Herbie Hancock in the piano chair in Davis'

band and appeared on landmark albums such as Filles de Kilimanjaro,In aSilent Way, andBitches Brew. In concert, Davis' rhythm section of Corea, Dave

Holland, and Jack DeJohnette combined elements of free jazz improvisation and

ock music. Corea experimented with using electric instruments, mainly the

Fender Rhodes electric piano, in the Davis band.

n live performance he frequently processed the output of his electric piano with

a device called a ring modulator. Using this style, he appeared on multiple Davis

albums, includingBlack Beauty: Live at the Fillmore WestandMiles Davis at

Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East.His live performances with the Davis band

ontinued into 1970, with a touring band of Steve Grossman, tenor sax, Keith Jarrett, additional electric pianand organ, Jack DeJohnette, drums, Dave Holland, bass, Airto Moreira, percussion, and Davis on trumpet.[3]

Holland and Corea left to form their own group, Circle, active in 1970 and 1971. This free jazz group feature

multi-reed player Anthony Braxton and drummer Barry Altschul. This band was documented on Blue Note a

ECM. Aside from soloing in an atonal style, Corea sometimes reached in the body of the piano and plucked t

trings. In 1971 or 1972 Corea struck out on his own. In April 1971 he recoded the sessions that became Pian

mprovisations Vol. 1 and Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 for ECM.

The concept of communication with an audience became a big thing for me at the time. The reasonI was using that concept so much at that point in my life in 1968, 1969 or so was because it was

a discovery for me. I grew up kind of only thinking how much fun it was to tinkle on the piano and

not noticing that what I did had an effect on others. I did not even think about a relationship to an

audience, really, until way later.[8]

Jazz fusion

n the early 1970s, Corea took a profound stylistic turn from avant garde playing to a crossover jazz fusion st

hat incorporated Latin jazz elements with Return To Forever. Named after their eponymous 1971 album, theband relied on both acoustic and electronic instrumentation and drew upon Latin American musical styles mo

han on rock music. On their first two records, Return to Forever featured Flora Purim's vocals, Corea's Fend

Rhodes electric piano, Joe Farrell's flute and soprano saxophone, Airto Moreira on drums & percussion, with

Stanley Clarke rounding up the group on acoustic bass. [3]Drummer Lenny White and guitarist Bill Connors

ater joined Corea and Clarke to form the second version of the group, which expanded upon the earlier Latin

azz elements with a more hard-edged rock and funk-oriented sound inspired by Corea's admiration for his
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Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea,

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage

Festival in 2008

Bitches Brew bandmate John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra. This

ncarnation of the group recorded the album Hymn of the Seventh

Galaxy, before Connors' departure and replacement by Al Di Meola,

who would be present on the subsequent releases Where Have I Known

You Before, and the best selling Romantic Warrior.

Corea's composition "Spain" first appeared on the 1972 Return to

Forever albumLight as a Feather. This is probably his most popularpiece, and it has been recorded by a variety of artists. There are also a

variety of subsequent recordings by Corea himself in various contexts,

ncluding an arrangement for piano and symphony orchestra that

appeared in 1999, and a collaborative piano and voice-as-instrument

arrangement with Bobby McFerrin on the 1992 album Play. Corea usually performs "Spain" with a prelude

based on Joaqun Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez(1940), which earlier received a jazz orchestration on Dav

and Gil Evans' Sketches of Spain.

n 1976, he issuedMy Spanish Heart, influenced by Latin American music and featuring vocalist Gayle Mor

Corea's wife) and electric violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. The record was somewhat misunderstood at the time, bus considered nowadays as a true example of Corea's ability to write fusion material. The album combined ja

and flamenco, supported by Minimoog backup and a powerful horn section.

Duet projects

n the 1970s Corea started working occasionally with vibraphonist Gary Burton, with whom he recorded sev

duet albums on ECM, including 1972's Crystal Silence. They reunited in 2006 for a concert tour. A new reco

alled The New Crystal Silencewas issued in 2008 and won a Grammy award in 2009. The package includes

disc of duets and another disc featuring the Sydney Symphony.

Toward the end of the 1970s, Corea embarked on a series of concerts and two albums with Hancock. These

oncerts were presented in elegant settings with both pianists formally dressed, and performing on Yamaha

oncert grand pianos. The two traded playing each other's compositions, as well as pieces by other composer

uch as Bla Bartk.

n 1982, Corea performed The Meeting, a live duet with the classical pianist Friedrich Gulda.

n December 2007 Corea recorded a duet album, The Enchantment, with banjoist Bela Fleck.[9]Fleck and

Corea toured extensively behind the album in 2007. Fleck was nominated in the Best Instrumental Composit

ategory at the 49th Grammy Awards for the track "Spectacle".[10]

n 2008 Corea collaborated with Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara on the live albumDuet (Chick Corea and

Hiromi). The duo played a concert at Tokyo's Budokan arena on April 30.[11]

Later work
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Corea performs with Bla Fleck,

March 1, 2008

Corea's other bands include the Chick Corea Elektric Band, its

raditional jazz trio reduction called Akoustic Band, Origin, and its

raditional jazz trio reduction called The New Trio.

Corea signed a record deal with GRP Records in 1986 which led to the

elease of ten albums between 1986 and 1994, seven with the Elektric

Band, two with the Akoustic Band and a solo album "Expressions".

The Akoustic Band released a self-titled album in 1989 and a live

ollow-up, "Alive" in 1991, both featuringJohn Patitucci on bass and

Dave Weckl on drums. It marked a turn back toward traditional jazz in

Corea's career, and the bulk of his subsequent recordings have been

acoustic ones. The Akoustic Band also provided the music for the 1986

Pixar shortLuxo Jr.with their song "The Game Maker".

n 1992 Corea started his own label, Stretch Records.[3]

n 2001 the Chick Corea New Trio, with Avishai Cohen and Jeff Ballard on bass and drums, respectively,eleased the album Past, Present & Futures. The 11-song album includes only one standard composition (Fa

Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz"). The rest of the tunes are Corea originals.

He also participated in 1998'sLike Minds, which features Gary Burton on vibes, Pat Metheny on guitar, Dav

Holland on bass and Roy Haynes on drums.

Recent years have also seen Corea's rising interest in contemporary classical music. He composed his first pi

oncerto and an adaptation of his signature piece, "Spain", for a full symphony orchestra and performed i

999 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Five years later he composed his first work not to feature any

keyboards: his String Quartet No. 1 was specifically written for the Orion String Quartet and performed by th

at 2004's Summerfest.

Corea has continued releasing jazz fusion concept albums such as To the Stars(2004) and Ultimate Adventur

2006). The latter album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.

n 2008, the third version of Return to Forever (Corea, keyboards; Stanley Clarke, bass; Lenny White, drums

Di Meola, guitar) reunited for a worldwide tour. The reunion received positive reviews from most jazz and

mainstream publications.[12]Most of the group's studio recordings were re-released on the compilationRetur

o Forever: The Anthologyto coincide with the tour. A concert DVD recorded during their performance at th

Montreux Jazz Festival was released in May 2009. He also worked on a collaboration CD with the vocal gro

The Manhattan Transfer.

A new group, the 5 Peace Band, which features Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin, began a world tour in

October 2008. Corea had previously worked with McLaughlin in Davis' late 1960s bands, including the grou

hat recorded Davis' albumBitches Brew. Joining Corea and McLaughlin were saxophonist Kenny Garrett an

bassist Christian McBride. Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta played with the band in Europe and on select North

American dates; Brian Blade played all dates in Asia and Australia, and most dates in North America. The
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variety of Corea's music was celebrated in a 2011 retrospective with Corea playing with the Jazz at Lincoln

Center Orchestra in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; aNew York Timesreviewer had high praise

he occasion: "Mr. Corea was masterly with the other musicians, absorbing the rhythm and feeding the solois

t sounded like a band, and Mr. Corea had no need to dominate; his authority was clear without raising

volume."[13]

A new band for 2013, Chick Corea & The Vigil, featured Corea along with bassist Hadrien Feraud, Marcus

Gilmore on drums (carrying on the lineage of jazz from his grandfather, Roy Haynes), saxes, flute, and bass

larinet from Tim Garland, and guitarist Charles Altura.

Scientology

Corea says that Scientology has helped deepen his relationships with others, and helped him find a renewed

path.[4]Under the "special thanks" notes in all of his later albums, Corea mentions that L. Ron Hubbard,

ounder of Scientology, has been a continual source of inspiration. In 1968 Corea discoveredDianetics,

Hubbard's principal work, and in the early 1970s developed an interest in Hubbard's science fiction novels. T

wo exchanged letters until Hubbard's death in 1986, and Corea had three guest appearances on Hubbard's 19album Space Jazz: The Soundtrack of the Book Battlefield Earth, noting, "[Hubbard] was a great composer a

keyboard player as well. He did many, many things. He was a true Renaissance Man."[14]Corea said that

Scientology became a profound influence on his musical direction in the early 1970s: "I no longer wanted to

atisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people."[15]

n 1993, Corea was excluded from a concert during the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart,

Germany. The concert's organizers excluded Corea after the state government of Baden-Wrttemberg had

announced it would review its subsidies for events featuring avowed members of Scientology.[16][17]After

Corea's complaint against this policy before the administrative court was unsuccessful in 1996,[18]members

he U.S. Congress decried a violation of Corea's human rights in a letter to the German government.[19]

However, Corea is not banned from performing in Germany and even had several appearances at the

government-supported International Jazz Festival in Burghausen, where he was awarded a plaque in

Burghausen's "Street of Fame" in 2011.[20]

n 1998, Corea and fellow entertainers Anne Archer, Isaac Hayes, and Haywood Nelson attended the 30th

anniversary of Freedommagazine, the Church of Scientology's investigative news journal, at the National Pr

Club in Washington, D.C., to honor 11 human rights activists.[21]

Discography

Awards

Up to and including 2013, Corea has been nominated for sixty-one Grammy Awards, out of which he has wo

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Year Award Album/song

1976Best jazz instrumentalperformance, group

No Mystery(with Return to Forever)

1977Best arrangement of aninstrumental recording

Leprechaun's Dream, The Leprechaun

1977

Best jazz instrumental

performance, group The Leprechaun


Friends


Duet(with Gary Burton)


In Concert, Zrich, October 28, 1979(with Gary Burton)

1989Best R&B instrumentalperformance

Light Years, GRP Super Live In Concert(with Elektric Band)


Akoustic Band

2000 Best instrumental solo Rhumbata,Native Sense(with Gary Burton)

2001Best jazz instrumentalperformance

Like Minds(with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes and DaveHolland)

2002 Best instrumental arrangement Spain for Sextet & Orchestra, Corea.Concerto

2004 Best jazz instrumental solo Matrix,Rendezvous in New York

2007Best jazz instrumental

performance, groupThe Ultimate Adventure

2007 Best instrumental arrangement Three Ghouls, The Ultimate Adventure

2008 Best jazz instrumental album The New Crystal Silence(with Gary Burton)

2010 Best jazz instrumental albumFive Peace BandLive(with John McLaughlin, Kenny Garrett,Christian McBride, Vinnie Colaiuta)

2012 Best improvised jazz solo 500 Miles High,from Forever(with Stanley Clarke, Lenny White)

2012 Best jazz instrumental albumForever (with Corea, Clarke & White)(with Stanley Clarke, LennyWhite)

2013 Best improvised jazz solo Hot House, fromHot House(with Gary Burton)2013 Best Instrumental Composition Mozart Goes Dancing, fromHot House(with Gary Burton)

Corea has also won two Latin Grammy Awards.
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