1969 · In a Silent Way
Miles's 1969–70 studio experiments fused rock's rhythmic sensibility with jazz improvisation. Bitches Brew
Library — Piano
Chick Corea
5 albums as leader and 21 as sideman (1968–2018), each listed chronologically.
As Leader · 5
As Sideman · 21
Echoes Of An Era
Chaka Khan / Freddie Hubbard / Joe Henderson / Chick Corea / Stanley Clarke / Lenny White
1982 · Elektra
SidemanPiano
Creative Music Studio - Woodstock Jazz Festival 2
Lee Konitz, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Miroslav Vitous, Anthony Braxton
1997 · Douglas Music
SidemanPiano
Notes on these albums · 6
Jack DeJohnette
Dave Holland1970 · Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
— So What: The Life of Miles Davis, John Szwed, 2002
Wayne Shorter1968 · Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
On Miles Davis's Live-Evil (1971), Chick Corea's electric piano is a distorted roar. A year later, Return to Forever has the same man on the same instrument playing light, Brazilian-tinted tunes — a turn he made on purpose, away from music that shut listeners out. The gap is twelve months wide.
1972 · Return to Forever and 1 more
Chick Corea started from a single wish: to have Stanley Clarke — then a young, unknown bassist — play his tunes. After trying several drummers he ended up with percussionist Airto Moreira, and the lineup that fell together almost by accident became the first Return to Forever (1972), the record that launched Clarke.
— Statement stmt-chick-corea-on-stanley-clarke
Airto Moreira1970 · Joe Farrell Quartet
Just as Bitches Brew (1970) pushed Miles Davis's electric music to its peak, his own rhythm players Chick Corea and Dave Holland walked out — turning an off-hours trio into Circle, a free, near-atonal group, rather than chasing the fusion market.
— Statement stmt-dave-holland-on-chick-corea
1971 · Live-Evil and 1 more
The call came not from Herbie himself but from Tony Williams: Miles Davis wanted Chick Corea in Baltimore in 1968 because Herbie Hancock couldn't make the date. Corea's seat at the piano began as a one-night fill-in — and became the core of Miles's electric period.
— Statement stmt-chick-corea-on-miles-davis-2
