Chick Corea
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Armando Anthony Corea |
| Born |
June 12, 1941 Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion, post-bop, Latin jazz, classical music, avant-garde jazz, bebop, progressive rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, bandleader |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboards, synthesizers, organ, vibraphone, drums |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Labels | ECM, Polydor, Stretch, Warner Bros. |
| Associated acts | Return to Forever, Miles Davis, Five Peace Band, Chaka Khan, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Chick Corea's Akoustic Band, Circle, Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Hubert Laws, Herbie Mann, Miroslav Vitous, Blue Mitchell, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Eddie Gómez, John Patitucci, Frank Gambale, Anthony Braxton, Hiromi Uehara, Al Di Meola, Herbie Hancock, Béla Fleck, John McLaughlin, Brian Blade, Bobby McFerrin, Steve Gadd |
| Website | www |
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's 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.
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.
Corea developed his piano skills by exploring music on his own. A notable influence was concert pianist Salvatore Sullo, from whom Corea started taking lessons at age eight and who introduced him to classical music, helping spark his interest in musical composition. He also spent several years as a performer and soloist for the St. Rose Scarlet Lancers, a drum and bugle corps based in Chelsea.
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