This edition of Chick's Elektric Band roared, sighed and carried on with remarkable internal discipline and intuition, like a single instrument. The atmosphere was festive in the packed Catalina Bar ...
It was 1973, and "fusion" was the word. The electrification of jazz began four years earlier, with the release of Miles Davis' "In a Silent Way" and The Tony Williams Lifetime's "Emergency." Many of ...
Back in the era when Chick Corea and John McLaughlin pushed jazz-rock to its virtuosic limits, the musicians assembled before a packed Royce Hall Thursday night would have been called a “supergroup." ...
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 ...
The passing of a giant in all categories of jazz. Chick Corea, NEA Jazz Master, 22-time Grammy Award winner, keyboard virtuoso as pianist, composer and arranger has earned, by contribution and breadth ...
Chick Corea, the American jazz composer and electric keyboard trailblazer whose visionary fusion work stretched the traditional boundaries of genre, has died of a rare form of cancer. He was 79. Corea ...
SEATTLE — At 66, Chick Corea shows no signs of slowing down. The ultra-prolific, master jazz pianist recently returned from a three-week tour of Europe with banjo icon Bela Fleck. Currently, he’s on a ...
Jazz keyboardist Chick Corea has died at the age of 79. “It is with great sadness we announce that on February 9th, Chick Corea passed away at the age of 79, from a rare form of cancer which was only ...
Like John Travolta, Chick Corea is a Scientologist who has adapted a science-fiction novel by the group's leader, L. Ron Hubbard, to his chosen art form. Corea's new album, "To the Stars," is far more ...