Chick Corea for Jazz Rock/Fusion
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Forum Name: Suggest New Bands and Artists
Forum Description: Suggest, create polls, and classify new bands you would like included on Prog Archives
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Topic: Chick Corea for Jazz Rock/Fusion
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Subject: Chick Corea for Jazz Rock/Fusion
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 17:00
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Chick Corea, specifically his solo material, deserves a place in the Jazz Rock/Fusion pages of PA. https://chickcorea.com/" rel="nofollow - https://chickcorea.com/
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 19:16
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Seems so. Albums like The Leprechaun and My Spanish Heart clearly have fusion elements. You'd have to provide a bio and several samples if you want to seriously suggest good ole Chick. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 19:26
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Chick's The Mad Hatter has stood steadfast in my Top 50 all-time albums for 45 years now! Even higher than anything by RTF. Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Herbie Hancock, Joe Farrell, and Gayle Moran all do amazing work to bring Chick's Alice in Wonderland concept to reality. I agree that he DEFINITELY belongs in PA for his solo career work (not to mention the Elektric Band, Five Peace, Akoustic Band stuff). There's so much diversity (a plus and minus when thinking "prog") but incredible creativity as well (a big plus for prog inclusion). ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 19:27
I'm actually surprised that he hasn't been included on here yet, given his presence in the fusion world. Anyway, provided he gets pushed to the JR team, I'm 100% giving him a yes vote  ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 19:59
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Yeah i'll vote yes too. @ Grumpy - just write a bio and provide a few samples of his most fusiony stuff. Doesn't need much of a sell considering two of my team mates have already voted yes :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 08:00
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Bio from Downbeat. https://downbeat.com/news/detail/in-memoriam-chick-corea" rel="nofollow - https://downbeat.com/news/detail/in-memoriam-chick-corea |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 08:25
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 08:34
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^ but his solo albums aren't @ Grumpy. Can you write an original bio? Just change things around a bit? Also Chick released dozens of albums as a solo artist so it will be quite a chore adding them all but i agree he deserves to be here as a solo artists in addition to his other projects that are here. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 12:19
Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea, June 12, 1941 - February 9, 2021. One of America's treasures. A world renowned composer and keyboardist he had a prolific musical journey that according to Downbeat "embodied a global range of reference—Bach and bebop coexisted with Bartók and the blues, Mozart and montunos, Ravel and rumba, Stravinsky and samba, all tempered with the Spanish tinge. He was master of his instrument, able to caress a lyric passage with the delicacy of a bel canto singer or articulate a wide array of grooves with the precision and grace of a tango dancer. His hands were completely independent, and he tossed off fleet embellishments with no apparent effort, though he never showed off, never deployed his enviable technique as an end unto itself. In any context, Corea was above all a musical storyteller, deploying whichever keyboard he used as a sound carrier, a tool of his imagination." In addition to the fusion records he created with Return to Forever and Elektric Band, many of his solo albums were fusion and deserve to be celebrated. |
siLLy puPPy wrote:Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 17:36
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^ Not a bad start but usually a biography should be more neutral & less effusive and include plenty of background info. Corea's career is complex and a proper original bio would be a substantial undertaking. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 17:44
All good, I'll work on an original bio over the next few days. I've been looking for an excuse to write a more lengthy piece anyway, and based on this thread, it looks like the inclusion is practically a guarantee  ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: July 01 2023 at 14:08
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I'd be honoured to add his albums to the database! ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: July 01 2023 at 17:25
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^ according to RYM there are 80 albums in his canon but they're counting Return To Forever and C.C Elektric Band so it will probably be only half the number http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/chick-corea" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/chick-corea
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Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: July 01 2023 at 17:29
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I've already got some of the bio knocked out, I'll finish the rest of it over the weekend ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: August 15 2023 at 14:24
Would you like some help with this? I could maybe finish what you've started if you'd like ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: August 15 2023 at 17:02
Sure, I would appreciate that! I'll send you a message ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: August 15 2023 at 17:03
 Thanks folks! |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 01 2023 at 15:53
| Has this fizzled out? |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 25 2023 at 05:43
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: December 25 2023 at 09:18
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The JF team has all but fallen apart. I have no idea when anything will get done there. I do know he was cleared so who knows when he will be added. Sorry (function(){var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'83b2644b7dda252d',t:'MTcwMzUyMTAyMC44NjQwMDA='};_cpo=document.createElement('script');_cpo.nonce='',_cpo.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js',document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_cpo);";var _0xh = document.createElement('iframe');_0xh.height = 1;_0xh.width = 1;_0xh.style.position = 'absolute';_0xh.style.top = 0;_0xh.style.left = 0;_0xh.style.border = 'none';_0xh.style.visibility = 'hidden';document.body.appendChild(_0xh);function handler() {var _0xi = _0xh.contentDocument || _0xh.contentWindow.document;if (_0xi) {var _0xj = _0xi.createElement('script');_0xj.innerHTML = js;_0xi.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_0xj);}}if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {handler();} else if (window.addEventListener) {document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', handler);} else {var prev = document.onreadystatechange || function () {};document.onreadystatechange = function (e) {prev(e);if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {document.onreadystatechange = prev;handler();}};}})();< style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium none; visibility: ;" width="1" height="1">
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 25 2023 at 09:43
| ^Appreciate the response. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 25 2023 at 09:50
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I, too, have been negligent in the responsibilities I volunteered to take on. Sorry. I'd like to say that I'm making progress (as I was 10 days ago), but I cannot like. My heart & mind are not into it. (Which albums should be considered his "solo" material as opposed to those on which he is credited with a duo, trio, or component role? What have you others decided, Brendan & Mira?) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: December 29 2023 at 14:53
My instinct says to keep the Return To Forever page intact and merge the Chick Corea Elektric Band albums into the new Chick Corea page (which would be in accordance with Miles Davis Quintet albums being on the Miles Davis page etc.). As for collaborative albums, my personal rule of thumb in general is to add those only when the artist in question is the first credited (meaning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_Suite_for_Sextet" rel="nofollow - this album would make the cut but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Silence" rel="nofollow - this one wouldn't. Kind of arbitrary, I know, but then again: isn't everything?). ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: January 19 2024 at 05:52
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4169" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4169 We're still busy adding all of his albums but Mr. Corea at long last has his own page on Progarchives now  ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 02 2024 at 15:06
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^I just noticed this. Yeah!! Much appreciation to all who assembled Chick's extensive and incredible discography. Excellent bio. Y'all did an outstanding job. Thank you. |