R.I.P. Chick Corea

[hieronymous]

I'm still hoping this isn't true, but appears to be:


Chick Corea obituary in Rolling Stone


I know that for many of us Stanley Clarke is a touchstone with Alembic, so this is a devastating loss.

[StephenR]

Another legend gone. Only saw him play live once, with Miles Davis at the 1969 Newport Jazz festival. Huge loss for the jazz community!


R.I.P Chick

[hieronymous]

I'm still hoping this isn't true, but appears to be:Chick Corea obituary in Rolling StoneI know that for many of us Stanley Clarke is a touchstone with Alembic, so this is a devastating loss.

[hankster]

Very upsetting. I’ve relied on RTF to pull me out of the blues for four decades.

[jazzyvee]

I'm gutted as I've been a huge fan from the first time I heard Return to Forever and after that with the Elektric band. As it happens I was playing along to some RTF stuff today on my shorty.
R.I.P. Chick or should that be R.T.F. Chick as him and his music will be forever engrained in my soul. Such a huge talent.

[mica]

Devastated is an understatement

[rv_bass]

This is heavy.

[hammer]

I saw Chick Corea play with several different bands including with RTF and Stanley, with Gary Burton and Steve Swallow, and most recently prior to the pandemic with Bela Fleck. They were all such different concerts but they were all phenomenal. May one of the great piano gods Rest In Peace.

[David Houck]

A big and continuing influence on me.  I've been both listening to his music and playing it through in my head a lot recently.

[edwin]

I first saw him ca. 1984 at Symphony Hall with Gary Burton. Those guys were absolutely telepathic. Vibes. Piano. All acoustic. We were sitting right in front of Chick's family, who were all very sweet.

I next ran into him when I was a cab driver after graduating from Berklee. I answered a call to pick someone up at The Channel. It was Chick and his manager. I drove them to the Park Plaza Hotel. Chick was pissed off at some band member and he was discussing firing him the next day with his manager. I kept my mouth shut. Or maybe I should have piped up, "Hey, if it's the bass player, I play a little bit!"

Later on, I saw him every now and then after that, mostly the Elektric Band. Always a wonderful player. Maybe my favorite part of those shows, were some acoustic duets he did with John Patitucci during a break at Great Woods.

[fmm]

I got to work with Chick and the Electric Band when they played at the Maintenance Shop in 1985, when they were filmed by Iowa Public TV.

[paulman]

Romantic Warrior was a staple when learning to play chess when I was 15 and seared into my neurons.  Rest well Chick!

[gearhed289]

That was a shocker. Romantic Warrior, yes. Wore that one out when I was 18. I got to see RTF in 1982-3 at I believe the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. RIP and thanks for the music.

[terryc]

 A great loss to the music world, as an impressionable 14 year old who was listening to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath etc, when I heard RTF(along with Mahavishnu Orchestra) they were not only from another planet but from another universe !
Such a shock to see this very sad news. RIP Mr Corea, indeed you have contributed more to music than anyone in the business!

[pauldo]

So pleased to have known of him. 
He is one that truly understood music - the art - the emotion - the feel - the listening - the contribution - the collaboration - the love.

R.T.F. Chick.  ♥️