Piano / Electric Piano / Keyboards

Chick Corea

(1941–2021)

United States

Chick Corea (1941–2021) — Piano, Electric Piano. Led Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, Return to Forever. Worked with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul.

Corea held it all: Latin rhythm, fusion electricity, and acoustic delicacy. He was bright and endlessly energetic — a single listen to Spain with Return to Forever tells you everything about his world. Whether in a duo, a trio, or a large band, he sounded like he was having the time of his life.

Chick Corea's albums

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

In a Silent Way

Miles Davis · 1969

Miles's 1969–70 studio experiments fused rock's rhythmic sensibility with jazz improvisation. Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 layered McLaughlinJohn McLaughlinジョン・マクラフリン, CoreaChick Coreaチック・コリア, HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック, and others in simultaneous collective improvisation.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

Miles DavisMiles Davisマイルス・デイヴィス gathered over twenty musicians in August 1969 and, paired with Teo Macero's tape editing, transformed jazz from "recorded performance" to "constructed recording." Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 launched jazz-rock fusion.

— So What: The Life of Miles Davis, John Szwed, 2002

Chick Corea's videos

NPR Tiny Desk, June 2016. Chick CoreaChick Coreaチック・コリア and Gary Burton (vibraphone). A distillation of their long-running duo partnership.

— NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, 2016

Videos featuring Chick Corea

On 1968's Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, Chick CoreaChick Coreaチック・コリア led Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes through a trio language that bounced where Herbie HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック and Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット floated.

— Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, Wikipedia, 2024

Keith Jarrett

Herbie Hancock