Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz pianist,composer,bandleader and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain","500 Miles High","La Fiesta","Armando's Rhumba" and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s,he 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 to have been one of the foremost pianists of the post-John Coltrane era.
Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist,composer,and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator,and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also known for pioneering fusion jazz and popularizing the duet format in jazz,as well as being a major figure in music education from his 30 years teaching at the Berklee College of Music.
GRP®Records is a jazz record label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1978. Distributed by Verve Records,GRP®was originally known for its digital recordings that focuses on its jazz genre.
Thomas William Ellis Smith is a Scottish jazz saxophonist,composer,and educator.
Tim Garland is a British jazz saxophonist,composer,and bandleader. His compositions draw from modern jazz and classical concert music.
Sakura is a full-length album from electronic artist Susumu Yokota,released in 1999 in Japan on Skintone Records (STR03) and on 11 September 2000 in the United Kingdom on The Leaf Label (BAY13). It was named as the top electronic release of the year 2000 by The Wire.
An Evening with Herbie Hancock &Chick Corea:In Concert is a live album compiling several performances from February of 1978 and released the same year as a double LP. The album features just Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea playing acoustic pianos. The use of the acoustic instruments comes as a marked departure from both men's favoring of electric keyboards at that time. Hancock received top billing on this album,while Corea was credited first on the album CoreaHancock,another recording from the same tour released by Polydor.
In Concert,Zürich,October 28,1979 is a live double album by pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton recorded at the Limmathaus in Zürich and released on ECM the following year—the duo's third release for the label,following Crystal Silence (1973) and Duet (1979).
Chick Corea (1941–2021) was an American jazz pianist and composer born on June 12,1941,in Chelsea,Massachusetts. Corea started learning piano at age four. He recorded his first album,Tones for Joan's Bones,in 1966. Corea performed with Blue Mitchell,Willie Bobo,Cal Tjader and Herbie Mann in the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s he performed with Stan Getz and Miles Davis. The National Endowment for the Arts states,"He ranked with Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett as one of the leading piano stylists to emerge after Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner,and he composed such notable jazz standards as 'Spain','La Fiesta',and 'Windows'."
Rendezvous in New York is an album by American pianist Chick Corea that was released on April 22,2003 by Corea's label,Stretch Records. The recording took place at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City over the course of three weeks. Corea reunited with members from nine bands that he played with in the past. Musicians included Terence Blanchard,Gary Burton,Roy Haynes,Bobby McFerrin,Joshua Redman,Gonzalo Rubalcaba,and Miroslav Vitous.
Crystal Silence is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist Chick Corea,recorded on November 6,1972 and released on ECM the following year—the duo's debut.
"Waltz for Debby" is a jazz standard composed by pianist Bill Evans,which became "his most famous tune." He first recorded it as a brief solo piano piece on his debut album,New Jazz Conceptions (1956). Lyrics were added about six years later by Evans's friend Gene Lees. "Debby" in the composition's title refers to Evans's then 3-year-old niece,Debby Evans,whom he often took to the beach.
Duet is the second album by vibraphone–piano duo Gary Burton and Chick Corea,recorded over three days in October 1978 and released by ECM Records in May of the following year.
Lyric Suite for Sextet is an album by piano–vibraphone duo Chick Corea and Gary Burton recorded in September 1982 and released on ECM a year later—the duo's third studio recording,following Crystal Silence (1972) and Duet (1978). The sextet features the pair accompanied by a string quartet comprising violinists Ik-Hwan Bae and Carol Shrive,violist Karen Dreyfus,and cellist Fred Sherry.
Hot House is the seventh recording by vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist Chick Corea released in March 2012 from Concord Jazz label. It received Grammy Award nominations in Best Jazz Instrumental Album,and the title track "Hot House" won the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.
The Gershwin Connection is an album by American pianist Dave Grusin released in 1991,recorded for the GRP label. The album reached #1 on Billboard's jazz chart. The medley Bess,You Is My Woman Now/I Loves You Porgy received the 1992 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement of an Instrumental.
Native Sense - The New Duets is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton and the pianist Chick Corea,released in 1997 on the Concord label. The album is the fourth studio recording by the duo following Crystal Silence (1972),Duet (1978) and Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982). The album peaked number 25 in the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.
Trilogy is a 2013 live album by Chick Corea and his trio,featuring Corea on piano with Christian McBride on double bass and Brian Blade on drums. The three-disc album was recorded live in Washington,D.C.,and Oakland,California,and in Spain,Switzerland,Austria,Slovenia,Turkey,and Japan. The album peaked at number nine on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart in 2014. It won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
Brian Vibberts is an American audio engineer,a native of Portland,Connecticut,who has been active since 1991. He is a 7-time Grammy Award winner and has participated in the making of numerous albums that have resulted in Grammy Award nominations and winners. Also known by the nickname,"Dr Vibb," he has creatively recorded or mixed many multi-platinum artists in many genres,including Michael Jackson,Aerosmith,The Pussycat Dolls,Bon Jovi,Natasha Bedingfield,Green Day,Trace Adkins,Faith Hill,Toby Keith,Ice Cube,Boyz II Men,Elton John,Eric Clapton,Chick Corea,Brad Paisley,Ringo Starr,Mariah Carey and Tony Bennett.
Forever is a double CD album of live acoustic recordings recorded in California,Tokyo and Seattle in 2009 by the Return to Forever pianist Chick Corea,bass player Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White and studio rehearsals with guests Jean-Luc Ponty,Bill Connors and Chaka Khan. It was released on the Concord label I 2011.
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