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Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul – A.R.C. (1971/2017)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 40:42 minutes | 1,6 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:42 minutes | 763 MB
Genre: Jazz | Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Mora.jp | Front Cover | © Universal Music
This album features pianist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul during the brief period that, along with Anthony Braxton, they were members of the fine avant-garde quartet Circle. The music heard on this set is not quite as free as Circle’s but often very explorative. Four of the six songs are Corea originals which, in addition to Holland’s “Vedana” and Wayne Shorter’s “Nefertiti”, form a very viable set of adventurous jazz, recorded just a few months before Corea changed direction.
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Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade – Trilogy 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:56:59 minutes | 3,60 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
In 2013, Chick Corea teamed up with a couple of gold-standard rhythmists – Christian McBride on the double bass and Brian Blade on drums – with whom he recorded Trilogy, a brilliant live album which saw him blend his own repertoire with classic standards by Thelonious Monk, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weil, Irving Berlin & co. Just as the title indicates, Trilogy 2 repeats the exercise: same cast, same idea, same great result. Of course, the relationship between the three of them has been consolidated over the years. And while Corea’s piano remains one of the best of his generation, it’s the McBride/Blade tandem that really shines as a creative stroke of genius. The accuracy of their interventions and punctuations are staggering, never off-kilter and never over the top. Finally, the repertoire is a touch more original than on the previous Trilogy, with Steve Swallow’s Eiderdown, Monk’s Crepuscule with Nellie, 500 Miles High by Return to Forever, Lotus Blossom by Billy Strayhorn as well as Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder. – Max Dembo
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Chick Corea and Return To Forever – Light As A Feather (1973)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:03 minutes | 875 MB | Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © GRP Records
Light as a Feather is one of the era’s defining LPs, what many musicians have called a perfect album — the ultimate expression of the period’s optimism. Its sheer, explosive joy surprised Chick Corea when he listened to it recently; he recalls in the liner notes searching then for a spiritual purity in his personal and creative lives. Even the band’s name, Return to Forever, reflected his need to “deliver from inside” to “get back to the vision”.
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Chick Corea & Steve Gadd Band – Chinese Butterfly (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:35:18 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stretch Records
Pianist Chick Corea and drummer Steve Gadd purposefully rekindle their ’70s fusion roots on 2017’s double-disc Chinese Butterfly. Although they are longtime associates, with Gadd touring often with Corea and appearing on albums like 1976’s My Spanish Heart, they’ve never totally collaborated on an album before. On Chinese Butterfly, Corea joins Gadd’s working ensemble for a set of newly penned originals that make the most of their long-held mutual admiration. Joining them are their equally adept bandmates, saxophonist/flutist Steve Wilson, guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke, bassist Carlitos Del Puerto, and percussionist Luisito Quintero. Together, they have crafted an album that draws upon the expansive, keyboard-heavy sound of Corea’s ’70s fusion work, while also weaving in various Latin and African traditions. In some ways, the album brings to mind Corea’s 1978 album Friends, which also featured Gadd in a similarly loose and lively atmosphere. Tracks like the opening “Chick’s Chums” and slinky “Like I Was Sayin’” are funky, bop-inflected jams that could easily have been culled from a vintage Return to Forever album. Similarly, the languid, Brazilian-accented “Serenity” is a lyrical, gorgeously rendered number that fits nicely into Corea’s long-standing love of world rhythms. Those rhythms are further explored on the album’s second disc, which features an epic reading of the classic “Return to Forever” theme featuring guest vocals by Philip Bailey. Elsewhere, Loueke grounds the Afro-bossa-influenced “Wake-Up Call” with his hushed vocals that give way to the band’s lively group interplay. With both Corea and Gadd in their seventies at the time of recording, it’s refreshing to hear them sound so inventive and willing to explore new songs, even as they look back on their over 50-year partnership. Ultimately, it’s that vibrant, in-the-moment reciprocity that makes Chinese Butterfly such a compelling listen.
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Chick Corea & Gary Burton – Hot House (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:04 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
Pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton have been a powerhouse team for more than four decades, performing exhilarating sets across the world and releasing seven acclaimed recordings. The influential pair celebrates forty years of great jazz with the release of Hot House, a collection of ten songs that draws from the works of some of their favorite composers from the 1940s through the 1960s. The result is a refreshing account of under-appreciated classics. Hot House includes the lighthearted “Can’t We Be Friends,” a darker “Eleanor Rigby” and the gorgeous Evans’ track “Time Remembered”.
“This is beautifully executed mainstream-to-modern jazz from two stars who clearly still enjoy each others company.” – The Guardian
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Chick Corea & Bela Fleck – Two (Live) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:54:50 minutes | 2,03 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
Cover art and liner notes included
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, two master songwriters, musicians, and band leaders meet once again in a historic duet of piano and banjo. The Grammy-winning duet, combine Corea and Fleck s classic tunes with the music from their Grammy-winning album The Enchantment! With a mix of jazz and pop standards, crossing a myriad of genres, from jazz, bluegrass, rock, flamenco and gospel, this album captures the casual, intimate playing by both legends from different musical worlds. Fans of legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea and bebop/bluegrass banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck are well aware of the pair’s previous collaborations (Corea guests on two Flecktones albums, and Fleck appears on Corea’s Rendezvous in New York DVD), but on their full-length release in 2007, The Enchantment, the two went into the project with an intense seriousness of purpose.
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Chick Corea – The Vigil (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:57 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Music Group
For the past half-century, on a jazz landscape that has seen its share of twists and turns, Chick Corea has always kept the faith – not just for himself, but for his peers and for the subsequent generations of musicians (and fans) whom he has inspired along the way. For the twenty-time GRAMMY® Award-winning keyboardist and composer, jazz has always been about honoring and preserving the creative process and the creative spirit – the undying spark that reaches back to the very beginnings of civilization. On The Vigil, Chick Corea returns with a new band that also features guest appearances by Stanley Clarke and Ravi Coltrane.
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Chick Corea – The Spanish Heart Band – Antidote (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
The Spanish Heart Band – Antidote, due out June 28 on Concord Jazz, revisits songs from Corea’s classic albums My Spanish Heart and Touchstone with a multi-cultural octet, plus new compositions and guest appearances by vocalists Rubén Blades, Gayle Moran Corea, and Maria Bianca
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Chick Corea – The Musician (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:36:47 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stretch Records
Recorded live in 2011 at a series of all-star concerts in New York City to celebrate Chick Corea’s 70th birthday, the almost four hours of performances on this three album box set find Corea collaborating with 10 different bands and a total of 28 musicians, including Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, John McLaughlin, Stanley Clarke and Bobby McFerrin.
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Chick Corea – Solo Piano: Portraits (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:10:56 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Group International
When Chick Corea recorded Piano Improvisations in 1971, he opened the floodgates on a new era of solo piano music, one that continues to resonate today. Portraits continues Chick’s solo piano evolution in a tour de force: in a full live performance, he embraces jazz standards, classical renditions and sublime Corea Classics.
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Chick Corea – Plays (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:02 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
The latest addition to Chick Corea’s remarkable discography is ‘Plays’, a captivating and intimate double album of solo performances. While he claims that, “Solo piano is lonely,” Chick finds himself in good company throughout these stellar performances, engaging with several of his favorite composers.
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Chick Corea – Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:31 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Chick’s brilliant trio album from 1968, Now He Sings. Now He Sobs is among the greatest piano trio albums ever released. Recorded in 1968, the record firmly established Chick as a pianist and composer with a unique vision, one that floated free of traditional genre distinctions and conventions, into new and thrilling territory. With veteran drummer Roy Haynes and brilliant bassist Miroslav Vitous, Chick creates a new language of his own, instantly recognizable from the first, classic cymbal flourish and piano run of “Matrix.” The trio is locked in, totally attuned to each other, and operating at a tremendous level. This is jazz of the highest order.
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Chick Corea – Live in Cannes ’78 (1978/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:25 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © High Fidelity Masters
Since embarking on a solo career in 1966, Chick has been at the forefront of jazz, both as a renowned pianist forging new ground with his acoustic jazz bands and as an innovative electric keyboardist with Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, and now the electro/acoustic Vigil. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 63 nominations. He’s also earned 3 Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category.
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Chick Corea, Makoto Ozone – Resonance (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:35:33 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
A piano duo album by jazz great Chick Corea, who passed away suddenly on February 9, 2021, and Makoto Ozone, who continues to be active on the world stage.
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Chick Corea – Chick Corea: The Montreux Years (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:24:25 minutes | 938 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Chick Corea’s The Montreux Years (Live) showcases some of the legendary pianist’s remarkable Montreux Jazz Festival live performances. The set includes the Chick Corea Quartet, Chick Corea New Trio, Chick Corea Freedom Band, Chick Corea Akoustic Band, and Chick Corea Elektric Band, plus an appearance by The Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra.
Chick Corea is considered one of the foremost jazz pianists of the post John Coltrane era and participated in the birth of jazz fusion. Throughout his career, the American jazz pianist was a regular fixture at the Montreux Jazz Festival, having performed at the festival 23 times. The performances in this new collection are curated from six of those shows.
Launched in 2021, ‘The Montreux Years’ is the embodiment of the spirit of the Montreux Jazz Festival and the legacy of its much-loved founder, Claude Nobs. Nobs refused to compromise on quality or settle for anything other than the best and this ethos lives on in the superb quality of the recordings compiled in ‘The Montreux Years’. Mastering has been performed by Tony Cousins at London’s iconic Metropolis Studios, incorporating MQA to capture the original sound of the special live performances.
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