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Chick Corea, Groundbreaking Jazz Pianist, Dead at 79 – Rolling Stone
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y agoI'm not the biggest Chick Corea listener, but his piece "Spain" is partly what got me into Jazz back in the day!
- Rochus 6y agoAn era is over. Good bye Chick, we'll miss you!
- lightlyused 6y agoI'm glad to have seen him in concert. RIP.
- rmelhem 6y agowas just telling my wife few days ago that my dream was to watch him live one day. it's just sad that it won't be possible anymore.
- jacquesm 6y agoIn a way we are so lucky that we have recording technologies now for both video and audio and literally 100's of hours of people like him to enjoy. Imagine what it would have been like to visit a concert where JS Bach was playing. Back then no amplification and really only the lucky few that got to see this up close. The very best your average person could do would be to go to church for some half decent music.
- rmelhem 6y agoyes, I completely understand your point. i'm a huge fan of Erik Satie for example and I'm lucky enough to be able to play 4 of his songs on the piano. I'd love to - at least - hear him playing his own compositions, but ofc it's impossible lol.
- jacquesm 6y agoThe Amsterdam pianola museum has some Rachmaninov recorded by Rachmaninov. I wrote about it here: https://jacquesmattheij.com/rachmaninoff-plays-rachmaninoff-an-early-attempt-at-hi-fi-recording/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/rachmaninoff-plays-rachmaninoff-... If you ever visit Amsterdam definitely go see that, it is quite an experience.
- rmelhem 6y agoOh thats dope, will read it! and I'm pretty sure I read your blog once, because of the pianojacq! obs: i'm planning a visit to Amsterdam this year because a conference of recommender systems, so will for sure visit the museum if I'm able to go there. thanks!
- jacquesm 6y agoChick Corea has Returned to Forever, what a pity. Crystal Silence, Spain, so many good memories.
- scotuswroteus 6y agoFor folks new to the Chick Corea party or want to join, here's my recommendation: https://music.apple.com/us/album/trilogy-2-live/1477683289 https://music.apple.com/us/album/trilogy-2-live/1477683289 If any of you think jazz isn't accessible, start off with their live jazz version of Gangsta's Paradise entitled "Pastime Paradise." Worth noting that Chick Corea plays in this live album with bassist Christian McBride, who in addition to bringing the funk is really good at hosting podcast eps: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/28/928739116/crate-digging-with-christian-mcbride-the-history-of-latin-bass https://www.npr.org/2020/10/28/928739116/crate-digging-with-...
- Slow_Hand 6y agoYou may be interested to know that ‘Pastime Paradise’ is a Stevie Wonder song that was then sampled for the Coolio song. It’s fantastic.
- scotuswroteus 6y agoquite interested. thank you!
- athms 6y agoSorry to see him go. Unfortunately, Jazz has fallen out of favor in the United States. America, with a population of over three hundred million, accounts for about 1% of the global Jazz market. Japan is the biggest and has been for the last two decades. Europe is second with France, the UK and Sweden being epicenters of both musicians and listeners.