Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer.

Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Keith Jarrett, he has been described as one of the major jazz piano voices to emerge in the post-John Coltrane era.

Corea continued to pursue other collaborations and to explore various musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He is also known for promoting and fundraising for a number of social issues.

Life and career

Youth

Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He is of southern Italian and Spanish descent. His father, a jazz trumpet player who had led a Dixieland band in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s, introduced him to the piano at the age of four. Growing up surrounded by jazz music, he was influenced at an early age by bebop and stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, and Lester Young. At eight Corea also took up drums, which would later influence his use of the piano as a percussion instrument.

Tap Step

Tap Step is an album recorded by Chick Corea and released in 1980.

Track listing

All music composed and arranged by Chick Corea.

Side one

  • "Samba L.A." (Lyrics Tony Cohan) – 5:52
  • "The Embrace" (Lyrics Tony Cohan) – 5:52
  • "Tap Step" – 8:19
  • Side two

  • "Magic Carpet" – 6:51
  • "The Slide" – 6:47
  • "Grandpa Blues" (Vocoder Lyrics Chick Corea) - 4:03
  • "Flamenco" - 3:34
  • Personnel

  • Chick Corea - Clavinet, OB-X, Moog 55, Acoustic Piano, Minimoog, Rhodes, Fender Rhodes, Vocoder, Piano, Handclaps
  • Gayle Moran - Vocals on Samba L.A. and The Embrace
  • Flora Purim - Vocals on Samba L.A.
  • Shelby Flint - Vocals on Samba L.A.
  • Nani Villa Brunel - Vocals on Samba L.A.
  • Airto Moreira - Snare Drums, Tamborim, Whistle Drums, Pandero on Samba L.A. and Cuica on The Slide'
  • Laudir de Oliveira - Surdo, Agogô, Ganza, Tamborim on Samba L.A. and Agogo on The Slide
  • Hubert Laws - Flute on The Embrace and Piccolo on Flamenco
  • Bunny Brunel - Fretless Bass on all tracks except Samba L. A., Yamaha 2000 on The Embrace
  • Tom Brechtlein - Drums on all tracks except Samba L. A.
  • Podcasts:

    Chick Corea

    ALBUMS

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Sometime Ago

    by: Chick Corea

    Sometime ago
    I had a dream
    It was happy it was lasting it was free
    And now in life
    Oh can't you see
    How we can make that dream into reality
    And all the music
    it was playing
    and all the firelight
    it was dancing
    And all the children
    they were singing
    And all the people
    they were loving
    Sometime ago
    I had a dream
    It was happy it was lasting it was free
    And now in life
    Oh can't you see
    How we can make that dream into reality
    And all the morning sun
    it was soft and cool
    All the evening breeze
    it was warm and gold
    All together life had started to unfold




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