What did Chick Corea learn from the time he spent playing in the bands of Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz and other jazz giants? Everything. "I've had the best teachers, haven't I?" said Corea, ...
SEATTLE — At 66, Chick Corea shows no signs of slowing down. The ultra-prolific, master jazz pianist recently returned from a three-week tour of Europe with banjo icon Bela Fleck. Currently, he’s on a ...
A two-hour special show showcasing the music of Chick Corea on WMNF’s Colors of Jazz, Sunday, July 23, at 8 pm. ET. In his 60-year musical career, Chick Corea changed the sound of jazz with the ...
Avishai Cohen speaks as a citizen of the world. He’s a street-wise bass player, born in Israel and raised in St. Louis, who learned to hold his own in Greenwich Village jazz clubs and Latin joints in ...
Chick Corea was a protean musician. Like Miles Davis, with whom he worked on the seminal 1969 album “In a Silent Way,” he explored many different types of music: straight-ahead piano with his band ...
This is FRESH AIR. Pianist and composer Chick Corea's interests stretched beyond jazz into classical music. In 2018, three years before his death at the age of 79, he gave a concert in Sardinia that ...
An eclectic array of musicians will gather in New York to celebrate the pianist’s legacy. Five collaborators and admirers discuss his experiments, artistry and generosity. By Ed Morales When the ...
Béla Fleck is one busy musician. The 16-time Grammy Award-winner banjoist still runs his 20-year-plus old project Béla Fleck & the Flecktones with bassist Victor Wooten, tours in a bluegrass banjo duo ...
In 2018, three years before his death, the pianist and composer gave a concert in Sardinia that included both Mozart and George Gershwin. A live... Chick Corea renders Mozart with daring and ...