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Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by diggan » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC

phreeza wrote: post #148

josh2600 wrote: post #8

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 hel…

Isn't that 'thousand mile stare' often attributed to scientologists? Did this happen after his conversion?

A "thousand-yard stare" would be devoid of life and emotion. What josh2600 is describing seems to be the opposite of that, a stare full of life, questions and answers.

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by binarytox1n » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 7:53 PM UTC

If you're revisiting Chick's music due to this event or learning of him for the first time, here's a duet that may introduce you to another electrifying pianist, Hiromi Uehara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRU1o-sCnqY

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by hsitz » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 7:53 PM UTC

Jazz musician/educator Dave Frank did a Chick Corea "Masterclass" video in honor of Chick, which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8V7iTWuzY

A lot of it is technical, won't be comprehensible to non-musicians, but lots of interesting stuff.

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 8:10 PM UTC

defen wrote: post #34

josh2600 wrote: post #30

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Chick asked me to sit in a chair a couple feet away from his piano. He stared at me with the a look that seemed to say "whatever you've got, I'll work with it." If I had to imagine how I looked back at him in that moment it would've been the simulacrum of wanderlust and kummerspeck (German for grief bacon). It felt like I was being channeled by a ghost and the chords matched my facade like icing on a cake. Chick play…

That's a really powerful story, but also > kummerspeck (German for grief bacon) Raises more questions than it answers

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Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by Mediterraneo10 » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

toast0 wrote: post #160

aczerepinski wrote: post #102

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I met Mark as an undergrad when I was trying to get a career in music started. I asked him if he had any advice about getting my foot in the door of tv or film scoring, and his advice was... Scientology. Joke's on me. I never tried Scientology and consequently never made it as a film composer.

I mean, in a way, scientology is like any other affinity group [1]. If many members of a particular affinity group are prominent in an industry, joining it is a way to get connected with those members and that industry. Scientology is also a lot more hands on, and tries to manage staffing for their most prominent members, which means positions may be open only for members (which may be illegal), so it probably is pre…

> The questions are really can you get out of Scientology and stay in the industry.

Yes, you can, at least in the last decade. Lots of celebrities who were once vocal Scientologists have now left the church, though they might not make a big fuss about it. Blogs like Tony Ortega's have written on how Scientology's membership is imploding, though it still has some committed donors that it squeezes for money to keep up appearances.

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by dhosek » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

btkramer9 wrote: post #110

defen wrote: post #34

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That's a really powerful story, but also > kummerspeck (German for grief bacon) Raises more questions than it answers

Not sure why English speakers are in love with German compound words but add me to the list because this phrase is wonderful

Spanish has some wonderful compound words as well.

Puzzle = rompecabezas (literally, breaks heads)

mask (like we've been wearing for the last year) = tapabocas (covers/plugs mouths)

half-sleep = duermevela (sleep candle)

There are more, these are just two of my favorites.

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by jbgreer » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

Chick Corea was the unknowing instigator of rebellion from the jazz of my father and the beginning of a broader embrace of jazz.

I saw Chick twice - once in 80s and then again a few years ago.

The night of his death I was playing selected tunes to my wife, trying to explain his significance to me. She said, "Rachmaninoff... don't you hear Rachmaninoff in that?" [ I repeated the anecdote about Art Tatum. ]

Finished my set with the Miles Davis concert on the Isle of Man, the last concert before Chick left that band.

Amazing musician. Great to see so many here touched in the same way.

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by martyvis » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 9:18 PM UTC

jgwil2 wrote: post #133

busfahrer wrote: post #96

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As a German it's amusing to me that a translation was given for Kummerspeck, but not for Wanderlust.

Both wander and lust are also English words, albeit with slightly different shades of meaning, so it should be comprehensible to a non-German speaker who has never encountered it before, whereas Kummerspeck would not be.

Coincidentally I saw a tweet yesterday which said that albeit looks like a German word but isn't

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by martyvis » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 9:30 PM UTC

tmalsburg2 wrote: post #87

What a coincidence! I bought some of Corea's records 20 years ago but hadn't listened to them in a long time. But on the day of his death my 2-yo son pulled out one of them, and we listened to it. A recording of a concert he gave in 1978 together with Herbie Hancock [1]. They are playing like gods, absolutely breathtaking. Good starting point if you haven't made contact with Corea's work yet. [1] https://www.discogs.…

Thanks for making me look for things. I just found this brilliant duet with Chick and Herbie. https://youtu.be/14ovAQNNmWQ

Re: Chick Corea has died

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Post by robbyking » Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 9:40 PM UTC

pachico wrote: post #48

The night I turned 18 I was drinking with Chick Corea. It happened that in 1995 he had a classical music project involving some local orchestra musicians in Modena, Italy, where I was living at the time. One of the musicians was a friend of mine's brother who invited me to the dress rehearsal in a renaissance villa. Concert was good. After the concert, I got introduced to him and he asked me if I liked it. Shortly af…

That same year I was working at a mom and pop musical instruments store, and in our hallway we had a photo of Chick standing behind a keyboard with his pants unbuttoned.

As a 17-year-old who didn’t know anything about jazz, and I asked the owner what the story was behind the photo, and he said, “Robby, when you’re a legend you don’t have to button your pants.”