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Chick Corea discography

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Chick Corea discography
Corea in 1976
Studio albums75
Live albums36
Compilation albums11

Chick Corea (1941–2021) was an American jazz pianist and composer born on June 12, 1941, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Corea started learning piano at age four. He recorded his first album, Tones for Joan's Bones, in 1966.[1] Corea performed with Blue Mitchell, Willie Bobo, Cal Tjader and Herbie Mann in the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s he performed with Stan Getz and Miles Davis. The National Endowment for the Arts states, "He ranked with Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett as one of the leading piano stylists to emerge after Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and he composed such notable jazz standards as 'Spain', 'La Fiesta', and 'Windows'."[2]

Albums

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Studio albums

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Year Title Label Date recorded Notes
1968 Tones for Joan's Bones Vortex 1966-11-30,
1966-12-01
1968 Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Solid State 1968-03-14, -19, -27
1969 Is Solid State 1969-05-11 – -13 The Complete "Is" Sessions (Blue Note, 2002)
1972 Sundance Groove Merchant 1969-05-11, -12, -13
1971 The Song of Singing Blue Note 1970-04-07, -08
1971 The Sun Express (Japan) 1970-09-14 with Steve Grossman, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Jackson
1971 A.R.C. ECM 1971-01-11, -12, -13 with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul
1971 Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 ECM 1971-04-21, -22
1972 Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 ECM 1971-04-21, -22
1972 Return to Forever ECM 1972-02-02, -03
1973 Crystal Silence ECM 1972-11-06 with Gary Burton
1975 Circling In Blue Note 1968-03-14, -19, -27
1970-04-07,
1970-08-13, -19
featuring Circle [2LP]
1976 The Leprechaun Polydor 1975
1976 My Spanish Heart Polydor 1976-10 [2LP]
1978 Mad Hatter Polydor 1977-11 (#81 Canada May 20, 1978)[3]
1978 Secret Agent Polydor 1978
1978 Friends Polydor 1978
1978 Circulus Blue Note 1970-04-08,
1970-08-19, -21
featuring Circle [2LP]
1979 Duet ECM 1978-10-23, -24 with Gary Burton
1979 Delphi I Polydor 1978-10-26, -27
1980 Delphi II & III Polydor 1978-10-26, -27 [2LP]
1980 Chick Corea Featuring Lionel Hampton Chiaroscuro 1971
1980 Tap Step Warner Bros. 1979-12 –
1980-01
1981 Three Quartets Stretch 1981-01,
1981-02
1982 Trio Music ECM 1981-11 [2CD]
1982 Touchstone Stretch 1982? with Paco de Lucia
1983 Again and Again Elektra/Musician 1982-03-23
1983 Lyric Suite for Sextet ECM 1982-09 with Gary Burton
1984 Children's Songs ECM 1983-07
1985 Voyage ECM 1984-07 with Steve Kujala
1985 Septet ECM 1984-10
1993 Enter The Spirit Stretch 1993 With Bob Berg
1994 Expressions GRP 1994?
1995 Time Warp Stretch 1995?
1996 The Mozart Sessions Sony Classical 1996-02-05, -06, -07,
1996-05-21
with Bobby McFerrin
1996 Solo Piano: From Nothing Stretch 1982-07
1997 Remembering Bud Powell Stretch 1996 Grammy nominated album
1997 Native Sense - The New Duets Stretch 1997-06 with Gary Burton
1999 Change Stretch 1999? with Origin
2000 Seabreeze[citation needed] Past Perfect 1978-01
2001 Past, Present & Futures Stretch 2001?
2005 Rhumba Flamenco Chick Corea Productions 2004 [2CD]
2006 The Ultimate Adventure Stretch 2005
2006 Super Trio Universal (Japan) 2005-04 with Christian McBride, Steve Gadd
2007 Chillin' in Chelan Universal (Japan) 2005 with Christian McBride, Jeff Ballard
2007 From Miles Stretch 2006-01 with Eddie Gómez, Jack DeJohnette
2007 The Boston Three Party Universal (Japan) 2006-04 with Eddie Gomez, Airto Moreira
2007 The Enchantment Concord 2006-12 with Béla Fleck
2007 Dr. Joe Stretch 2007? with Antonio Sanchez, John Patitucci
2012 Hot House Concord Jazz 2012? with Gary Burton
2012 The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon 2012? [2CD]
2013 The Vigil Concord Jazz 2013? with Hadrien Feraud, Marcus Gilmore, Tim Garland and Charles Altura
2014 Solo Piano – Portraits Concord Jazz 2014? [2CD]
2017 Chinese Butterfly Stretch/Concord 2017? with Steve Gadd [2CD]
2018 Tempus Fugit Stretch 2018? with Vigilette (Carlitos Del Puerto (bass), Marcus Gilmore (drums))
2019 Antidote Concord Jazz 2019? with The Spanish Heart Band
2020 Plays Concord Jazz 2020? [2CD][4]

Live albums

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Year Title Label Date recorded Notes
1978 An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert Columbia 1978-02 Duet with Herbie Hancock [2CD]
1979 CoreaHancock Polydor 1978-02 Duet with Herbie Hancock
1980 Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert RVC 1978-01-22 with Lionel Hampton
1980 In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 ECM 1979-10-28 with Gary Burton
1983 On Two Pianos Deutsche Grammophon 1982-06-24 Duet with Nicolas Economou at Münchner Klaviersommer
1983 The Meeting Philips 1982-06-27 Duet with Friedrich Gulda at Münchner Klaviersommer
1986 Trio Music Live in Europe ECM 1984-09 Trio in Willisau and Reutlingen. Grammy nominated album.
1992 Play Blue Note 1990-06-23, -27 with Bobby McFerrin
1994 Live in Montreux GRP 1981-07-15 with Joe Henderson, et al. at Montreux Jazz Festival
1996 The Trio Live from Country Club Stretch 1982-10? Trio at Reseda Country Club
1997 Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 Douglas Music 1981-09-19 with Lee Konitz, et al.
1997 Woodstock Jazz Festival 2 Douglas Music 1981-09-19 with Lee Konitz, et al.
1998 Live at the Blue Note Stretch 1997-12 with Origin at Blue Note
1998 A Week at the Blue Note Stretch 1998-01 with Origin at Blue Note [6CD]
1999 Corea: Concerto / Spain for Sextet & Orchestra / Piano Concerto, No.1 Sony Classical 1999-04 with Origin and London Philharmonic Orchestra
2000 Solo Piano: Originals Stretch 1999-11
2000 Solo Piano: Standards (Part Two) Stretch 1999-11
2003 Rendezvous In New York: Live at The Blue Note Stretch 2001-12 with guests Bobby McFerrin, Joshua Redman, Michael Brecker et al. at The Blue Note [2CD]
2005 Live in Molde MNJ 2000-07-18 with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at Moldejazz 2000
2008 The New Crystal Silence Concord 2007-05,
2007-07
with Gary Burton [2CD]
2008 Duet [ja] Stretch 2007-09 Duet with Hiromi at the Blue Note Tokyo [2CD]
2009 Five Peace Band Live Concord 2008-10 –
2008-11-23
with John McLaughlin [2CD]
2011 Forever Concord 2009-09-01, -16, -17, -30,
2009-11-28,
2009-12-12
with Return to Forever members (Stanley Clarke and Lenny White) [2CD]
2011 Further Explorations Concord Jazz 2010-05-04 – -17 with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian at The Blue Note [2CD]
2011 Orvieto ECM 2010-12-30 Duet with Stefano Bollani at the Umbria Jazz Festival
2013 Trilogy Universal 2010-10 –
2012-12
[3CD] Grammy won album
2015 Two with Béla Fleck Concord 2007 –
2015?
[2CD]
2016 The Musician Concord Jazz 2011 [3CD]
2018 (Japan), 2019 (U.S.) Trilogy 2 Universal (Japan), Concord (U.S.) 2016 [2CD] Grammy won album
2021 Resonance Universal 2016-05-19, -22, -29 Duet ith Makoto Ozone [2CD]

Compilations

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  • Inner Space (Atlantic, 1973) – contains all previously published and two unreleased tracks from Tones for Joan's Bones recorded in 1966 & 1968
  • Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner (Atlantic, 1976)
  • Chick Corea Compact Jazz (Polydor, 1987)
  • Best of Chick Corea (Blue Note, 1993)
  • Music Forever & Beyond: The Selected Works of Chick Corea 1964 - 1996 (GRP, 1996) – discs 1-4 are a career-spanning retrospective; disc 5 is all-new recordings of standards, and one original, with the Time Warp quartet
  • Selected Recordings (ECM, 2002)
  • The Complete "Is" Sessions (Blue Note, 2002) – combined the albums Is and Sundance with alternate takes
  • Very Best of Chick Corea (Universal, 2004)
  • The Song Is You (Douglas, 2005)[2CD] – combined version of Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 and Woodstock Jazz Festival 2 (Douglas Music, 1997)
  • Five Trios (Stretch, 2007)[6CD]
  • Electric Chick (Verve, 2008)
  • The Montreux Years (Montreux Jazz Festival/BMG, 2022) – rec. 1988, 1993, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010

As group leader

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Studio albums
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Live albums
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  • 1977: Live (Columbia)[4LP] – live
  • 2009: Returns (Eagle)[2CD][DVD-Video] – live
  • 2011: Forever (Concord)[2CD] – as Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White's album
  • 2012: The Mothership Returns (Eagle)[2CD + DVD-Video] – live
Compilations
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  • 1980: The Best of Return to Forever (Columbia)
  • 1996: Return to the 7th Galaxy: The Anthology (Verve Records)
  • 2008: The Definitive Collection (Verve Records)
  • 2008: R.T.F, the Anthology

Posthumous release

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  • Live in Japan 1983 (Hi Hat, 2021) – live recorded in 1983
  • Alive in America (Renaissance, 2022) – live recorded in 1974
  • Sardinia (Candid, 2023) - live recorded in 2018

Chick Corea Elektric Band

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Studio albums
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Year Title Label Date recorded Notes
1986 The Chick Corea Elektric Band GRP 1986-01
1987 Light Years GRP 1987?
1988 Eye of the Beholder GRP 1988?
1990 Inside Out GRP 1990?
1991 Beneath the Mask GRP 1991?
1993 Elektric Band II: Paint the World GRP 1993?
2004 To the Stars Stretch 2004
Live albums
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Year Title Label Date recorded Notes
1996 Live from Elario's (First Gig) Stretch 1985-04-19
2017 Live in Tokyo 1987 Universal Music 1987-10-08 reissue of disk 2 of GRP Super Live in Concert (GRP, 1988)[2CD]
2023 The Future Is Now Candid 2016–2017

Chick Corea Akoustic Band

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Studio album(s)
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Year Title Label Date recorded Notes
1989 Chick Corea Akoustic Band GRP 1989?
Live albums
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Year Title Label Date recorded Notes
1987 Summer Night: Live Jazz Door 1987-10-01 Unofficial release
1991 Alive GRP 1989-12-16
1996 Live from Blue Note Tokyo Stretch 1992 Live at Blue Note Tokyo
2019 Live Stretch 2018-01-13 [2CD] Grammy won track included

As sideman

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  • John Patitucci (GRP, 1987)
  • On the Corner (GRP, 1989)
  • Heart of the Bass (Stretch, 1992)
  • Soul Burst (Verve, 1966)
  • Along Comes Cal (Verve, 1967)
  • In the Pocket (Headfirst, 1981)
  • Skyrocket (Summit Records, 1995)

With others

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References

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  1. ^ "Early Years: 1941-71 | Chick Corea".
  2. ^ "Chick Corea".
  3. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - May 20, 1978" (PDF).
  4. ^ Plays at AllMusic. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  5. ^ "Letizia Gambi, l'italiana". 29 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Introducing Letizia Gambi". 22 October 2012.