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Chick Corea, Groundbreaking Jazz Pianist, Dead at 79 – Rolling Stone

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For 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

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-...

You may be interested to know that ‘Pastime Paradise’ is a Stevie Wonder song that was then sampled for the Coolio song. It’s fantastic.

quite interested. thank you!

Sorry 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.

An era is over. Good bye Chick, we'll miss you!

I'm not the biggest Chick Corea listener, but his piece "Spain" is partly what got me into Jazz back in the day!

Chick Corea has Returned to Forever, what a pity.

Crystal Silence, Spain, so many good memories.

I'm glad to have seen him in concert. RIP.

was 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.

In 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.

yes, 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.

The Amsterdam pianola museum has some Rachmaninov recorded by Rachmaninov. I wrote about it here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/rachmaninoff-plays-rachmaninoff-...

If you ever visit Amsterdam definitely go see that, it is quite an experience.

Oh 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!

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