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Chick Corea has died

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Post by warent »

Chick Corea is such an excellent introduction/addition to jazz and jazz fusion libraries. If you like Snarky Puppy, Chick Corea was a huge part of their inspiration. He was a musical genius and his soul will live on in jazz forever

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Post by tluyben2 »

I thought he would go on for at least a decade more the way he still looked and given his energy; what a shame (and fuck cancer). If you don't know his music, it's well worth exploring. I found The Mad Hatter in the record cupboard of my parents when I was very young and liked it instantly.

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Post by davepeck »

Today's playlist was:

- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

- Captain Marvel (w/ Stan Getz)

- Chick Corea Plays (a live album released last September)

Corea has so many great albums, both as leader and as sideman, that it's entirely unfair to name only those three. But... that's where inspiration and available time took me.

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Post by blunte »

I don’t know if these videos will still be on his Facebook page, but sometime in the last year or so he did a series of livestream events where he would practice or teach. I knew I loved his playing, but I had no idea what a kind and gentle mentor type he was until then.

If you like his music, go look for those videos (COVID era).

As for his music, it’s hard to pick a favorite; his duo album with Bobby McFerrin is my favorite.

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Post by josh2600 »

Chick Corea was a god.

I learned Spain on the bass in the hopes that one day I could play my meager rendition for him. In a concert at SFJazz he picked people out of the audience to paint their portraits with his piano. How lucky was I to be placed upon such a seat where Chick dismembered me with his eyes, eviscerating my soul upon a platter. He stared at me with the eyes of a musician who had searched heaven and hell for the most tempestuous chordal mixtures. The two minutes I spent in that seat where he painted my portrait with his keystrokes are some of the most treasured moments of my life. I felt like I had been seen, chewed up, devoured, and reincarnated as the everloving Chick Corea sycophant I had always known myself to be.

The man was a goddamn monster on the boards and we are all at a loss with his passing. Rest in Power Chick, you're in my heart forever.

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Post by antognini »

My wife and I saw him perform a concert at Davies Concert Hall not too long before covid hit. One of my favorite parts was when he described the holidays in his house growing up. He and his siblings would sit at the piano in pairs and improvise songs together. He then pulled up a volunteer from the crowd and improvised a song with them. (Twice, actually, with two different volunteers.) They were both really, really good and the whole thing was just so much fun.
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