1.媒體來源: NYT
2.記者署名:
Giovanni Russonello
3.完整新聞標題:
Chick Corea, Jazz Keyboardist and Innovator, Dies at 79
4.完整新聞內文:
Chick Corea, an architect of the jazz-rock fusion boom of the 1970s who spent
more than a half century as one of the foremost pianists in jazz, died on
Tuesday at his home in Tampa, Fla. He was 79.
Chick Corea做為上世紀最重要的融合爵士樂手，星期二在坦帕自宅離世
The cause was cancer, said Dan Muse, a spokesman for Mr. Corea’s family.
據其家族發言人稱，死因是癌症
Mr. Corea’s best-known band was Return to Forever, a collective with a
rotating membership that nudged the genre of fusion into greater contact with
Brazilian, Spanish and other global influences. It also provided Mr. Corea
with a palette on which to experiment with a growing arsenal of new
technologies.
Corea最為人知曉的樂隊是Return to Forever，一個不斷更迭樂手並擴展融合爵士與巴西
乃至西班牙音樂與其它世界音樂的影響。
But throughout his career he never abandoned his first love, the acoustic
piano, on which his punctilious touch and crisp sense of harmony made his
playing immediately distinctive.
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5.完整新聞連結 (或短網址):
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/arts/music/chick-corea-dead.html
6.備註:
這幾天Chick GG前還在聽他年輕時的曲子說
Return to Forever: 「Matrix」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJuBYSg0wnA
Return to Forever 出道同名曲
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHnX9AF8-fc
1970年代中期改走更加搖滾的風格
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B6jUlc50sI
和電顫琴手Gary Burton組合
「Duet」 調皮地引用蘋果西打抄襲的曲子"Buttons & Bows"主旋律
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4UBy6BlEtc
「水晶寧靜」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Gl_T4KYX0
不過Chick Corea是山達基教徒 記得台灣有位難民外來種爵士樂評人訪問他時就被當場
傳教 而就像每個有成就的人 Corea也是控制慾很強的band leader 像Bill Connors後來
離開Return to Forever的原因就是Corea太雞掰這樣