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Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

As of 2008, the most recently recorded (as opposed to most recently enshrined) jazz inductees to the Grammy Hall of F...

Grant Geissman (with Chick Corea & Chuck Mangione): Chuck and Chick (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 15, 09

Bad timing for this release . . . During the last 15 months, more than half of the smooth jazz radio stations in the ...

Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: Liza (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 20, 09

It’s hard for me pick between “Liza” and “Someday My Prince Will Come” on this record, but I will pick “Liza.” Herbie...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: URI CAINE SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL HERBIE HANCOCK TRACKS

Few jazz-related artists are busier these days than pianist-composer Uri Caine, whose international career transpires...

Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: After the Cosmic Rain (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 14, 08

The Return to Forever group that recorded Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy was Chick Corea's second edition of that unit. R...

Chick Corea & Return to Forever: Light as a Feather (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

Light as a Feather was Return to Forever's second album. Because the first record, Return to Forever, wasn't released...

Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: No Mystery (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 13, 08

The better fusion bands would always take a few moments or so on their records or in concert to show off their pure v...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Chick Corea: Song for Sally (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 17, 07

When Herbie or Miles or Wayne jumped on the fusion bandwagon, they often confused their loyal fans, who struggled to ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ECM - THE FIRST DECADE

The ECM record label, founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, continues to expand our musical horizons after almost four d...

Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: The Game Maker (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy marked the beginning of Return to Forever's rise in the jazz-rock fusion pecking order. Th...

Chick Corea: Part II (Dedicated to John Coltrane) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

While primarily known as a rock/pop drummer with Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, and James Taylor, Gadd is a successful and...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Brazil (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 18, 07

Jazz fans have enjoyed this composition in many versions, both jazz arrangements such as Chick Corea's solo piano ren...

Chick Corea: The Loop (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music March 31, 08

Chick Corea begins this pretty waltz in a very classical manner, and it acquires more bounce when the bass and drums ...

Stan Getz (with Chick Corea): Litha (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 05, 09

Stan Getz's name is often linked with that of Zoot Sims, Al Cohn and other disciples of Lester Young who came of age ...

Chick Corea & Bela Fleck: Senorita (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 09

On an airy but intense duet between Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, "Senorita" manages to sound like a relatively authent...

Stan Getz (featuring Chick Corea): La Fiesta (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 24, 07

Stan Getz was not just one of the greatest tenor saxophonists in the history of the music, but also an acute judge of...

Chick Corea: Matrix (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

Before Chick Corea became a big shot in the world of fusion (which ensured him enough popularity to keep his houses p...

Chick Corea: A.R.C. (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

This selection is less about Chick Corea and more about a group capable of frightening levels of interplay. The main ...

Chick Corea: Brazil (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

With the care of a fine-art restorer, Chick Corea rescues “Aquarela do Brasil” ("Watercolor of Brazil") from Disney's...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Waltz for Debby (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 22, 08

If you have not yet heard The New Crystal Silence, or have not attended one of their recent duet concerts, you might ...

Rick Derringer (featuring Chick Corea): Rock (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music February 06, 09

In 1975, Chick Corea's success with his jazz-rock combo Return To Forever was at its peak, while Rick Derringer was p...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Chick Corea: My One and Only Love (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 07, 09

This track comes from my favorite Chick Corea session, which incredibly was awarded NO stars in a Downbeat review soo...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

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