Remembering Chick Corea (1941-2021)

Today's post pays tribute to the music great who passed at 79 on February 9.

There are a few pieces I have enjoyed that augment the obits with a guide to his music. The following video, Chick Corea: Documentary of Legendary Jazz Great, Pianist and Composer, is a good place to start.



The New York Times noted his excellent work in 12 Essential Performances, while there is an article Chick Corea: His 10 Greatest Recordings posted in The Guardian. The tribute in writer Mark Evanier's outstanding News From Me blog was excellent. Our tribute here shall consist mostly of cool covers from Chick Corea albums that are must-listens.

Loved how Chick's music was all over the map, from Latin jazz to rock to classical to super modern free jazz to the art of the piano-bass-drums trio (previously exemplified by Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson).

Chick was nothing if not prolific, so the Corea albums I have heard are a scant few among his 90+ records catalog as a bandleader.

As Mr. Corea had a six-decade career in music, there are many records of his Mr. Blogmeister has not heard. . . yet.

Shall ask the Alexa robot inhabiting our kitchen to play more Corea tunes and will also peruse YouTube to find more complete albums and concerts.

Could the gang here at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog recommend these albums more highly? Absolutely not!

Unfortunately, we must close today's post by noting that there have been problems galore with Blogger of late. Frequently, embedded videos do not play at all. Some, such as the following videos of two Chick Corea concerts, can only be played on YouTube. That's okay by me.




Other videos play as they always have - no problem - through the 14+ years I've been doing this blog.





Shall post complete Chick Corea concerts now - hopefully, they will be playable!



Enjoy - and, by all means, check out the cool videos on Chick's YouTube channel.