Name: Solo Piano Portraits
Brand: Chick Corea

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Universal Music GmbH

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2014-05-02

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Chick Corea

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Concord

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Jazz

Chick Corea was an American jazz composer, arranger, keyboardist, percussionist, bandleader and recording artist of southern Italian descent. Born on June 12, 1941 in Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, he was a prolific musician who played various genres including Bebop, Post Bop, Free Jazz, Latin Jazz and Crossover. He became known for his contributions to Jazz Rock and Fusion in the 1970s as both a solo artist and member of bands such as Return to Forever and Circle.

In his youth, Chick Corea marched as a lead soprano bugle soloist in a drum and bugle corps called St. Rose Scarlet Lancers of Chelsea. Influenced by bebop music, he started his professional career in the early 60s and recorded his first album in 1966 (not released until 1968). His well-received trio Post Bop album "Now He Sings Now He Sobs" with drummer Roy Haynes and bass player Miroslav Vitous marked the beginning of his groundbreaking musical journey.

Throughout his career, Chick Corea explored various styles of music including Latin American acoustic and electronic music as well as classical influences. He utilized instruments such as piano, electric piano and Minimoog to create innovative fusion sounds. His dedication to touring, recording and collaborating with numerous musicians earned him recognition with 25 Emmys. Tragically passing away from cancer on February

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A specially-priced box set in ECM's Old and New Masters Series brings together all of Chick Corea's ECM solo piano recordings, in an era when Chick is once again playing solo concerts. The label's distinguished solo piano tradition began with Corea's two volumes of 'Piano Improvisations', recorded at the beginning of the 70s. In 1983, he recorded another solo project, 'Children's Songs', with twenty short compositions for piano. All three albums were "hits" in their original incarnations, with the award-winning first volume of Piano Improvisations selling over 250,000 copies. Both Piano Improvisations albums are newly re-mastered from analog sources."This was something entirely new", US journalist Neil Tesser recalls in his liner notes. "An album of free-flowing solo piano music untethered from the old forms." In 1971, taking time of from his schedule with fire-breathing avant-garde band Circle, Chick Corea responded to ECM producer Manfred Eicher's request for a solo album, and recorded enough material for two discs in an extremely spontaneous session which adds up to a kind of self-portrait of the artist. Many of his enthusiasms are revealed here - from a love of Thelonious Monk to influences from classical music and contemporary composition - e.g. harmonies echoing Ravel and Debussy. There is also a first sighting of Chick's "Sometime Ago", soon to be an important tune for the Return To Forever band.Chick's Children's Songs have been compared by some critics to Bartók's Mikrokosmos: perfect miniatures of deceptive simplicity. Corea: "I became intrigued with the idea of making musical portraits. And children were my favourite subjects to portray." A few of the Children's Songs had been previewed by Corea in versions with Gary Burton, but the 1983 session marked the first time that he had played and recorded the entire cycle.Personnel: Chick Corea (piano), CD3 track 20: Ida Kavafian (violin), Fred Sherry (cello)

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