He was so humble, that he was never shy to show his mistakes, nor how he played classical music, even being criticized by some classical musicians. He loved music so much. And we love him. 🎉❤
we've witnessed how a giant practices. rest in peace chick. your music, your enormous contributions to music and your legacy will not be forgotten... i sometimes come here to fully comprehend that no one will ever reach your level. rip master
I play jazz piano and Chick has always been my greatest influence. Yes, there are legends like Bill Evans, Herbie, Monk, Keith Jarrett, Mehldau... but Chick was so inventive, from the use of modal/fourths in "Now he sings.." to Spain, to his trio work with the Akoustic band... I mean you name it. He also had impeccable taste when choosing the musicians he worked with. What a master, I will forever miss him.
For my students and others interested Timecodes for class 30:00 is composition lesson beginning 44:23 introduces composition to trio 48:10 Trio debates which Latin beat to use Bajon or Sanga (my bad for the spelling) 51:27 is discussion about what grooves best and instructions to get to the ENDING of the tune 53:10 a few seconds before visual cues begin signaling for "here comes the ending" 53:30 Chic's instructions for the drummer for the ending 54:10 Running the entire thing with choruses for piano head, bass solo and drum solo, piano solo and ending 59:50 Chic's final thoughts on developing skill, improving one's self, and life Cheers!!
True Genius. Many thanks for all and everything you have given to the world. The Great Chick Corea Will be sadly missed but you're immense body of work Will forever be throughout eternity. Return to forever and ever and ever. Just had to pay tribute there. 😊
It's funny to see the new kids discovering Chick Corea, a guy that I fortunately discovered in the late 60s. Yes, he was always awesome, and my main influence. 😅😅😅
I studied piano for over a decade but watching Chick here what differs most from my capabilities is not so much his fluid technique i am relatively decent with that, but it is his memory. As he learns a piece he easily writes what he learned like a pen on a white sheet of paper and it stays there for good ready to be played again perfectly. Somehow i have no been able to organize my mind to do that, memorizing is a long slow difficult process for me. It probably has something to do with lacking vizualizing my own body articulation and sensing fingers touch memory while playing. When i try to memorize i always feel like a blind man trying to cross a busy street or densely maze like market. I wished i knew how to relearn that and get that skill.
Unfortunately, Chick was a nearly-lifelong Scientologist. Luckily, he is one of the easiest "separate art from the artist" types. Undeniable musical genius, incredible pioneer, unsavory personal religious views lol.
@@brendanhirst201adding to this, chick first encountered scientology through a narcanon, a rehab facility sponsored by scientology. they would preach scientology in conjunction with the rehab. from what i can tell, chick had some substance problems in the 60’s, although i couldn’t find much as chick didn’t like to talk about it. However I did find a picture of him in 1967 posing at narcanon with a few other celebrities who needed help at the time. from chicks perspective, scientology helped him get out of this rough spot in his life, and maybe it actually did to an extent. but scientology has proven to be damaging to his relationships and it goes without saying that scientology is a bunch of grifters posing as a religion. in spite of this, chick is absolutely brilliant artist, and it seemed that he stoped by heavily advertising it after the 90s, although he still donated frequently unfortunately.
This is the real deal and on an entirely different level. Dirty loops is a great band they are without doubt inspired by the fusion era and bands like Chicks electric band.
@@fjzingo Yes. And thank God they are discovering, because most people only hear pop music from the big media. They have no clue what they are missing. And there are others discovering jazz, but only the new kids, like Cory Henry. They have no idea that Cory comes from Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and many others.
