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Chick Corea
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American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer (1941-2021)
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Chick Corea, born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea on June 12, 1941, was an American pianist, composer, and jazz musician. He began his professional work period in 1962 and was educated at the Juilliard School. Corea performed in genres including post-bop, avant-garde jazz, and chamber jazz, playing instruments such as the piano, organ, and drum kit. He was affiliated with ECM Records and received the NEA Jazz Masters award.
Corea’s musical output included works such as *Pepper Adams*, *Jazz Solos of Chick Corea*, and the *Chick Corea - Omnibook*. He was a member of Scientology and spoke English. His spouse was Gayle Moran. Corea died on February 9, 2021.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Pepper Adams
- Jazz Solos of Chick Corea
- Chick Corea - Omnibook
- Chick Corea - Omnibook for Piano * Transcribed Exactly from His Recorded Solos
- Chick Corea
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1941
- Active to
- 2021
Discography
Member of
- Return to Forever
- Circleuntil 1971
- Chick Corea Quintet
- Chick Corea Elektric Band II
- Corea, Clarke & White
- Chick Corea Akoustic Band
- Chick Corea Elektric Band
- Chick Corea Trio
- Chick Corea & Origin
- Chick Corea & Friends
- Chick Corea Freedom Band
- The Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band
- The Chick Corea New Trio
- Echoes of an Era
- Chick Corea Quartet
- Return to Forever
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 662,566
- Total plays
- 8,098,675
Tags
Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA, on June 12, 1941, died February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta" and "Windows", are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed the fusion band Return to Forever. Along with Herbie Hancock <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chick
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The BioPlex Network: A Systematic Exploration of the Human Interactome
· 2015 · cited 1,357x
- Glycine-nitrate combustion synthesis of oxide ceramic powders
· 1990 · cited 1,006x
- Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19
· 2021 · cited 826x
- Glucagon-like peptide I stimulates insulin gene expression and increases cyclic AMP levels in a rat islet cell line.
· 1987 · cited 698x
- Using Technology to Maintain the Education of Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
· 2020 · cited 687x
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Quotes
- “I believe that any "awareness" of life is "spiritual" since awareness can only be a quality of the spirit not of the material world or of matter and machines. Only a spiritual being has awareness. But if you mean "spiritual" in the sense of a kind of "celebration of Life", then yes, I write music to celebrate life. I think most artists do, no matter how they themselves describe it. It's the joy of creating. It's a way of life.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
27 objects attributed to Chick Corea, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and "Windows" are considered jazz standards.
As a member of the Miles Davis band in the late 1960s, Corea participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered one of the foremost pianists of the post-John Coltrane era.
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