Chick Corea News
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
- piano
- jazz
- United States of America
- composer, jazz musician, pianist
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2023-12-18 05:30:00
KN's Favorite Recordings of 2023
[…] the improvisatory nature of much of the music is always evident, but comes across to the listener more as directed and creative, a balanced combination of preparation and inspiration. Hershkovits draws from influences, ranging from his work in jazz contexts to his background in classical music. From track to track, the music varies, but never loses its listenable, playful, charming, quality. Hershkovits credits inspirations as seemingly disparate as the late jazz piano jazz legend Chick Corea and Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Scriabin as prominent influences. With no liner notes but beautiful ECM sound, Call on the Old Wise is an unexpected jewel of a piano recording. Stephan Micus: Thunder. ECM 2757. German-born Stephan Micus (b. 1953) is a unique musician and composer who has recorded nearly 30 albums, and on all but one of those recordings he played every instrument. He collects and studies instruments from all around the world. On Thunder, the […]
2023-12-04 04:30:00
Piano Potpourri No. 11 (CD Reviews)
[…] listenable, playful, charming, quality. “I don’t want to be confined to any specific key or time signature, but rather leave the freedom to continually re-evaluate things in real-time and see them from a new perspective over and over again,” he explains, “that’s also why I tried to go into the session with as few preconceived ideas as possible.” He goes on to mentions inspirations as seemingly disparate as the late jazz piano jazz legend Chick Corea and Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Scriabin as prominent influences. You can get a brief sample of his low-key but inviting piano style in this brief video, which features an excerpt from the track Mode Brilliante. With no liner notes but beautiful ECM sound, Call on the Old Wise is an unexpected jewel of a piano recording.
2023-05-30 20:13:00
New York Philharmonic. Marin Alsop, conductor; Joseph Alessi, trombone. May 27, 2023.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat BB103, $94.50).Alsop and Huang shaking hands after performance of Barber's Symphony No. 1.ProgramSymphony No. 1 (in One Movement) Op. 9 (1935-36) by Barber (1910-81).Concerto for Trombone (2020) by Corea (1941-2021).Selections from Romeo and Juliet, Suites Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (1935-36/1946) by Prokofiev (1891-1953).The concert was sometimes billed as "Joseph Alessi plays Chick Corea." That Marin Alsop was going to conduct didn't push it over the line for me, until I saw a 30% discount offer for tonight's tickets. At $94.50 (including fees) for seats in the Rear Orchestra section, they were still expensive.I am rushing to get ready for a trip overseas, so I can only jot down what I thought of each of the pieces.Barber wrote Symphony No. 1 when he was quite young, and the piece's premiere in Rome helped launch Barber as a serious American composer. The composer supplied […]
2022-08-29 17:29:26
The Scottish guitarist defies expectations, ditching his traditional nylon-strung instrument for a Fender Stratocaster to play a startling range of music – from Meredith Monk to Chick Corea.
or
- timeline: Composers (North America). Performers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): C...