Chick Corea - Notes From the Road

One of the hippest guys in the universe–Ornette Coleman

Fuzzy picture of Chick and Elvis Costello backstage at a Sly and the Family Stone concert at North Sea Jazz Festival

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Hey, thanks for tuning in. I thought I’d start letting you all in on what’s cookin’ from on “The Road” (the infamous “Road” which basically means playing gigs and being anywhere and everywhere except home. Don’t get me wrong - it’s great) with entries into our new “Notes From The Road”. — Chick
2 Jul 07 […]

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I made I’d like to share with my music-loving friends is the piano music of a French composer I had heard of through John McLaughlin. It took me a year or so to finally get a CD of this man’s music - performed by a wonderfully spirited and technically immaculately pianist named John Chen. These […]

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Two great album cover designers– Marc Bessant {Peter Gabriel and Chick’s Latest} (right), and Marc’s hero, Sgt. Pepper’s designer, Peter Blake (left)

A cool thing happened on that tour. I overheard Béla and my friends talking avidly and deeply about the Beatles. I was kind of out of it since I never really delved into the […]

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Last month, Béla Fleck and I finished our June tour at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. That was wild! I didn’t know what to expect from the bluegrassers because our duet music isn’t really blue grass. But it was pretty cool the way the audience dug on our “Joban Dna Nopia” (banjo and piano) wanderings.
2 Jul […]

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Weirdly cold weather for July - but the concerts with Gary Burton have been going great so far and we’ve got another five weeks of fun to go. We’re recording the gigs as we go and will have a new recording coming sometime soon. This should include the duet’s live performances as well as […]

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Some more recreation I’m having on this tour is mixing a new recording project of mine. I call it “long distance mixing” or “road mixing”. The project is a box set - five CDs of five different trios I have recorded over the last few years (mostly this year). Big Fun making this music with […]

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