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Returned to Forever: The Chick Corea's Songbook, Part 1

By Ludovico Granvassu | Mondo Jazz
February 23, 2021
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We celebrate the legacy of the late

Chick Corea

piano
1941 - 2021

" data-original-title="" title="">Chick Corea with his countless recordings as a leader or sideman, a body of compositions that have already expanded the jazz canon and will continue to do so in the coming years. In this first part of the programme we'll focus in particular on his "Spanish Heart" and his "Children's Songs" cycle.

Playlist

Ben Allison

bass, acoustic
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00

Iiro Rantala

piano
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Iiro Rantala,

Michael Wollny

piano
b.1978

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Wollny,

Leszek Mozdzer

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Leszek Mozdzer "Armando's Rumba (Live)" Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic I (Live) (ACT) 0:16

Host talks 5:57

Don Grolnick

piano
1947 - 1996

" data-original-title="" title="">Don Grolnick "Oran" Medianoche (Rhino/Warner) 7:47

Host talks 13:14

Willie Bobo

percussion
1934 - 1983

" data-original-title="" title="">Willie Bobo "Guajira" Do That Thing Guajira! (Tico) 14:15

Michel Camilo

piano
b.1954

" data-original-title="" title="">Michel Camilo "La Fiesta" Spain Again (EmArcy) 17:06

Santana

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Santana "Castillos de Arena, Pt. 2 (Sand Castle)" Lotus (Live) (Columbia) 23:02

Host talks 24:14

Bireli Lagrene

guitar
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Bireli Lagrene,

Sylvain Luc

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Sylvain Luc "Got a Match" Summertime (Dreyfus Jazz) 25:33

Roy Haynes

drums
1926 - 2024

" data-original-title="" title="">Roy Haynes Trio "Folk Song" The Roy Haynes Trio (Verve) 28:11

Diego Figueiredo

guitar, acoustic

" data-original-title="" title="">Diego Figueiredo "Spain" Tempos Bons (Stunt) 33:36

Host talks 38:02

Friedrich Gulda

piano
1930 - 2000

" data-original-title="" title="">Friedrich Gulda "Children's Song No. 20" Gulda Plays Gulda & Corea (Philips) 40:20

Susanne Abbuehl

vocals
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Susanne Abbuehl "Children's Song No.1" Compass (ECM) 41:42

Tommy Smith

saxophone, tenor
b.1967

" data-original-title="" title="">Tommy Smith "Children's Song No. 7; Improvisation 1; Children's Song No. 7 -Continued; Bairn's Sang Batch 2; Children's Song No. 3; Improvisation 2; Children's Song No. 3 -Continued" Modern Jacobite (Spartacus) 44:35

Host talks 51:06

Kris Bowers

keyboards
b.1989

" data-original-title="" title="">Kris Bowers "Matrix" Live at the Jazz Kitchen (YouTube) 52:40

Nicola Andrioli

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Nicola Andrioli "Crystal Silence" Les montgolfi��res (Dodicilune) 59:27

Mural

" data-original-title="" title="">Mural "Fingerprints" Shishi's Wish (Berthold) 1:02:20

Host talks 1:07:37

Chick Corea

piano
1941 - 2021

" data-original-title="" title="">Chick Corea "Quartet No. 1" Three Quartets (Reissue) (Stretch) 1:08:18

Photo credit: Roberto Cifarelli.

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