This is FRESH AIR. Pianist, keyboardist and composer Chick Corea died last week at the age of 79. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says Corea's music covered a broad range of styles. Kevin has this ...
Chick Corea has done more to shape the course of popular music over the past 50 years than anyone will ever truly know. He started his career in the 1960s, playing with such jazz greats as Mongo ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Corea, Clarke & White at 8 p.m. on Sept. 25 in the Mainstage Theatre, located in the Center for the Arts on the UB ...
As Chick Corea, restless and creative as ever, continues to forge ahead with new musical ideas and new ensemble configurations, he has basically taken his Origin group and reduced it to its percussive ...
DETROIT — The 39th annual Detroit Jazz Festival opened with a contrast of resplendent and rigorous styles on Friday night, Aug. 31. With the metro area’s attention focused on Aretha Franklin’s ...
When an iconic pianist like Chick Corea gets together with such modern masters as bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, perhaps it should come as no surprise that the music they create ...
An all-you-can-listen-to two and a half-hour buffet was generously served up Wednesday night October 2nd, 2019 at the Balboa Theater in San Diego. Head chef Chick Corea prepared a tasty assortment of ...
This post was updated March 30 at 11:19 p.m. “Chick Corea Akoustic Band LIVE” celebrates years of collaboration. John Patitucci, an artist in residence at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz ...
Since releasing his first album in 1966, pianist Chick Corea has covered more stylistic territory than most jazz musicians could ever hope to. After gaining widespread recognition for his influential ...
I clearly remember the first time I heard pianist Chick Corea. It was at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, in 1964, with trumpeter Blue Mitchell’s hard bop quintet. “Wow, who’s that piano player?” I asked ...