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Post by mrholmes on Feb 12, 2021 8:33:02 GMT -6
One more gone at 79 yrs old.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 9:01:34 GMT -6
Saw him ages ago. It was the lineup with Stanley Clark, Lenny White and Bill Connor. They were still breaking down their own gear and packing up the trailer themselves. A couple of friends and I spoke to them for quite a while after the concert. All were quite approachable and happy to talk to younger musicians. I wrote him a brief letter afterward just to thank him for the concert and the tips we all got. He wrote right back. I hope others had similar experiences with him.
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Post by the other mark williams on Feb 12, 2021 9:14:02 GMT -6
Saw him ages ago. It was the lineup with Stanley Clark, Lenny White and Bill Connor. They were still breaking down their own gear and packing up the trailer themselves. A couple of friends and I spoke to them for quite a while after the concert. All were quite approachable and happy to talk to younger musicians. I wrote him a brief letter afterward just to thank him for the concert and the tips we all got. He wrote right back. I hope others had similar experiences with him. Wow, that is so awesome, Michael. Great story. |
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Post by jcoutu1 on Feb 12, 2021 9:45:05 GMT -6
Saw him ages ago. It was the lineup with Stanley Clark, Lenny White and Bill Connor. They were still breaking down their own gear and packing up the trailer themselves. A couple of friends and I spoke to them for quite a while after the concert. All were quite approachable and happy to talk to younger musicians. I wrote him a brief letter afterward just to thank him for the concert and the tips we all got. He wrote right back. I hope others had similar experiences with him. Really cool. What do you play? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 11:44:12 GMT -6
Saw him ages ago. It was the lineup with Stanley Clark, Lenny White and Bill Connor. They were still breaking down their own gear and packing up the trailer themselves. A couple of friends and I spoke to them for quite a while after the concert. All were quite approachable and happy to talk to younger musicians. I wrote him a brief letter afterward just to thank him for the concert and the tips we all got. He wrote right back. I hope others had similar experiences with him. Really cool. What do you play? Me? I was a guitarist and bassist in those days, but only get a little time on it nowadays. I'm more focused on the classical world. But I've still got a decent archtop and a Les, so a little solo jazz is fun now and then. |
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Post by gwlee7 on Feb 12, 2021 11:52:55 GMT -6
Return to Forever was a great era
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Post by Guitar on Feb 12, 2021 12:02:04 GMT -6
Chick was a hero of mine, very sad to hear this news.
If anyone needs a recommendation check out the semi modern Chinese Butterfly album, it's one of those ones that blows my doors down, leaves me speechless.
You don't get much "greater" than that as a musician.
One thing he said that I thought was kind of interesting was he loved to play piano like runners love to run, and could change directions whenever he wanted, so he never got bored. A true musician.
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Post by ericn on Feb 12, 2021 12:57:51 GMT -6
One of those guys who was simply a class act.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 12, 2021 13:40:38 GMT -6
I like his music, but I am not the biggest fan, nor a Jazz freak.
His music is great too, but something else caught my attention with Chick Corea.
He had this self-love AURA - in a good sense.
A no worries' attitude.
A true empath.
I saw only three people on stage with this attitude:
Pat Metheny
Chick Corea
James Taylor
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Post by christopher on Feb 13, 2021 0:35:50 GMT -6
I got to work a couple gigs on the return to forever reunion tour, my favorite moment working in pro sound. I was waiting side stage for the show to start. Without warning Stanley Clarke and Lenny White start jamming, crowd is cheering, nobody knew I don’t think the mains were on yet. So I start heading to monitor world when Chick is blocking the path and I couldn’t get by. Crap! Chick sees me, and turns to me gives me a look like “are you listening to this?!” It was just me and him side stage, the mains are starting to be brought up. I just start nodding in approval, but I was nervous that A1 is wondering where I’m at. Chick is just listening and getting into it. Then there’s a killer drum and bass fill and Chick turns to me like “DUDE! Did you just hear that?!!!” And I’m like jaw dropping open, laughing. By this time the mains were thundering, then another measure, same thing. This went on for a couple minutes! Just me and Chick digging on the rhythm tearing it up. Laughing, miming,I forgot all about my job, this was actually fun! Then he turns to me and gives me a serious look. It was time time for him to leave. He mimed me a thank you, and walked out on stage. Finally he wasn’t blocking the way and I could see the stage. Dim lights, a spotlight caught him as he walked toward the grand piano. He sat down and in the next measure jumped right in as if he was there the whole time. They destroyed the place, not a sour note all night. RIP.
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Post by drumsound on Feb 13, 2021 1:36:21 GMT -6
That's an amazing story christopher, thanks for sharing it.
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Post by thehightenor on Feb 13, 2021 2:44:06 GMT -6
I remember reading Chick saying don't play with your fingers play with your musical mind, if you can't hear anything in your head then don't play anything!
Next time I sat at the piano, I sat in silence, I thought whoa - how much of my playing is just muscle doodling, scales, pre-learnt patterns - it freaked me out a bit at first
but then I learned to dive into my musical mind and draw out original ideas and play more from my imagination.
As a kid I listened to The Leprechaun over and over and over, from the perspective of not only the keyboards and writing but also Steve Gadd on drums, Nite Sprite was memorizing to me.
Truly one of the greats.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 13, 2021 6:29:04 GMT -6
I got to work a couple gigs on the return to forever reunion tour, my favorite moment working in pro sound. I was waiting side stage for the show to start. Without warning Stanley Clarke and Lenny White start jamming, crowd is cheering, nobody knew I don’t think the mains were on yet. So I start heading to monitor world when Chick is blocking the path and I couldn’t get by. Crap! Chick sees me, and turns to me gives me a look like “are you listening to this?!” It was just me and him side stage, the mains are starting to be brought up. I just start nodding in approval, but I was nervous that A1 is wondering where I’m at. Chick is just listening and getting into it. Then there’s a killer drum and bass fill and Chick turns to me like “DUDE! Did you just hear that?!!!” And I’m like jaw dropping open, laughing. By this time the mains were thundering, then another measure, same thing. This went on for a couple minutes! Just me and Chick digging on the rhythm tearing it up. Laughing, miming,I forgot all about my job, this was actually fun! Then he turns to me and gives me a serious look. It was time time for him to leave. He mimed me a thank you, and walked out on stage. Finally he wasn’t blocking the way and I could see the stage. Dim lights, a spotlight caught him as he walked toward the grand piano. He sat down and in the next measure jumped right in as if he was there the whole time. They destroyed the place, not a sour note all night. RIP.
Thanks for this one it confirms my impression of his AURA on stage. And yes he was able to move 100% freely in his musical mind... no boundaries. IMO this has a lot to do with not having a monkey mind, not to think you are the greatest player in god great world. I bet he also meditated a lot, he had that Buddhist calmness in his voice.
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Post by fishnmusician on Feb 18, 2021 22:29:25 GMT -6
Scientology
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