Chick Corea discography explained

Studio:	75
Live:	36
Compilation:	11

Chick Corea (1941–2021) was an American jazz pianist and composer born on June 12, 1941, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Corea started learning piano at age four. He recorded his first album, Tones for Joan's Bones, in 1966.^[1] Corea performed with Blue Mitchell, Willie Bobo, Cal Tjader and Herbie Mann in the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s he performed with Stan Getz and Miles Davis. The National Endowment for the Arts states, "He ranked with Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett as one of the leading piano stylists to emerge after Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and he composed such notable jazz standards as 'Spain', 'La Fiesta', and 'Windows'."^[2]

Albums

Studio albums

Year	Title	Label	Date recorded	Notes
1968	Tones for Joan's Bones		1966-11-30, 1966-12-01
1968	Now He Sings, Now He Sobs		1968-03-14, -19, -27
1969	Is	Solid State	1969-05-11 – -13	The Complete "Is" Sessions (Blue Note, 2002)
1972	Sundance		1969-05-11, -12, -13
1971	The Song of Singing		1970-04-07, -08
1971	The Sun	Express (Japan)	1970-09-14	with Steve Grossman, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Jackson
1971	A.R.C.		1971-01-11, -12, -13	with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul
1971	Piano Improvisations Vol. 1	ECM	1971-04-21, -22
1972	Piano Improvisations Vol. 2	ECM	1971-04-21, -22
1972	Return to Forever	ECM	1972-02-02, -03
1973	Crystal Silence	ECM	1972-11-06
1975	Circling In	Blue Note	1968-03-14, -19, -27 1970-04-07, 1970-08-13, -19	featuring Circle [2LP]
1976	The Leprechaun	Polydor	1975
1976	My Spanish Heart	Polydor	1976-10	[2LP]
1978	Mad Hatter	Polydor	1977-11	(#81 Canada May 20, 1978)^[3]
1978	Secret Agent	Polydor	1978
1978	Friends	Polydor	1978
1978	Circulus	Blue Note	1970-04-08, 1970-08-19, -21	featuring Circle [2LP]
1979	Duet	ECM	1978-10-23, -24	with Gary Burton
1979	Delphi I	Polydor	1978-10-26, -27
1980	Delphi II & III	Polydor	1978-10-26, -27	[2LP]
1980	Chick Corea Featuring Lionel Hampton	Chiaroscuro	1971
1980	Tap Step		1979-12 – 1980-01
1981	Three Quartets	Stretch	1981-01, 1981-02
1982	Trio Music	ECM	1981-11	[2CD]
1982	Touchstone	Stretch	1982?	with Paco de Lucia
1983	Again and Again	Elektra/Musician	1982-03-23
1983	Lyric Suite for Sextet	ECM	1982-09	with Gary Burton
	Fantasy for Two Pianos	Teldec	1983	with Friedrich Gulda
1984	Children's Songs	ECM	1983-07
1985	Voyage	ECM	1984-07	with Steve Kujala
1985	Septet	ECM	1984-10
1993	Enter The Spirit	Stretch	1993	With Bob Berg
1994	Expressions	GRP	1994?
1995	Time Warp	Stretch	1995?
1996	The Mozart Sessions	Sony Classical	1996-02-05, -06, -07, 1996-05-21	with Bobby McFerrin
1996	Solo Piano: From Nothing	Stretch	1982-07
1997	Remembering Bud Powell	Stretch	1996	Grammy nominated album
1997	Native Sense - The New Duets	Stretch	1997-06	with Gary Burton
1999	Change	Stretch	1999?	with Origin
2000	Seabreeze	Past Perfect	1978-01
2001	Past, Present & Futures	Stretch	2001?
2005	Rhumba Flamenco	Chick Corea Productions	2004	[2CD]
2006	The Ultimate Adventure	Stretch	2005
2006	Super Trio	Universal (Japan)	2005-04	with Christian McBride, Steve Gadd
2007	Chillin' in Chelan	Universal (Japan)	2005	with Christian McBride, Jeff Ballard
2007	From Miles	Stretch	2006-01	with Eddie Gómez, Jack DeJohnette
2007	The Boston Three Party	Universal (Japan)	2006-04	with Eddie Gomez, Airto Moreira
2007	The Enchantment	Concord	2006-12	with Béla Fleck
2007	Dr. Joe	Stretch	2007?	with Antonio Sanchez, John Patitucci
2012	Hot House	Concord Jazz	2012?	with Gary Burton
2012			2012?	[2CD]
2013	The Vigil	Concord Jazz	2013?	with Hadrien Feraud, Marcus Gilmore, Tim Garland and Charles Altura
2014	Solo Piano – Portraits	Concord Jazz	2014?	[2CD]
2017	Chinese Butterfly	Stretch/Concord	2017?	with Steve Gadd [2CD]
2018	Tempus Fugit	Stretch	2018?	with Vigilette (Carlitos Del Puerto (bass), Marcus Gilmore (drums))
2019	Antidote	Concord Jazz	2019?	with The Spanish Heart Band
2020	Plays	Concord Jazz	2020?	[2CD]

Live albums

Year	Title	Label	Date recorded	Notes
1978		Columbia	1978-02	Duet with Herbie Hancock [2CD]
1979	CoreaHancock	Polydor	1978-02	Duet with Herbie Hancock
1980	Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert	RVC	1978-01-22	with Lionel Hampton
1980	In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979	ECM	1979-10-28	with Gary Burton
1983	On Two Pianos	Deutsche Grammophon	1982-06-24	Duet with Nicolas Economou at Münchner Klaviersommer
1983	The Meeting	Philips	1982-06-27	Duet with Friedrich Gulda at Münchner Klaviersommer
1986	Trio Music Live in Europe	ECM	1984-09	Trio in Willisau and Reutlingen. Grammy nominated album.
1992	Play	Blue Note	1990-06-23, -27	with Bobby McFerrin
1994	Live in Montreux	GRP	1981-07-15	with Joe Henderson, et al. at Montreux Jazz Festival
1996	The Trio Live from Country Club	Stretch	1982-10?	Trio at Reseda Country Club
1997	Woodstock Jazz Festival 1	Douglas Music	1981-09-19	with Lee Konitz, et al.
1997	Woodstock Jazz Festival 2	Douglas Music	1981-09-19	with Lee Konitz, et al.
1998	Live at the Blue Note	Stretch	1997-12	with Origin at Blue Note
1998	A Week at the Blue Note	Stretch	1998-01	with Origin at Blue Note [6CD]
1999	Corea: Concerto / Spain for Sextet & Orchestra / Piano Concerto, No.1	Sony Classical	1999-04	with Origin and London Philharmonic Orchestra
2000		Stretch	1999-11
2000		Stretch	1999-11
2003	Rendezvous In New York: Live at The Blue Note	Stretch	2001-12	with guests Bobby McFerrin, Joshua Redman, Michael Brecker et al. at The Blue Note [2CD]
2005	Live in Molde	MNJ	2000-07-18	with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at Moldejazz 2000
2008	The New Crystal Silence	Concord	2007-05, 2007-07	with Gary Burton [2CD]
2008		Stretch	2007-09	Duet with Hiromi at the Blue Note Tokyo [2CD]
2009	Five Peace Band Live	Concord	2008-10 – 2008-11-23	with John McLaughlin [2CD]
2011	Forever	Concord	2009-09-01, -16, -17, -30, 2009-11-28, 2009-12-12	with Return to Forever members (Stanley Clarke and Lenny White) [2CD]
2011	Further Explorations	Concord Jazz	2010-05-04 – -17	with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian at The Blue Note [2CD]
2011	Orvieto	ECM	2010-12-30	Duet with Stefano Bollani at the Umbria Jazz Festival
2013	Trilogy	Universal	2010-10 – 2012-12	[3CD] Grammy won album
2015	Two with Béla Fleck	Concord	2007 – 2015?	[2CD]
2016	The Musician	Concord Jazz	2011	[3CD]
2018 (Japan), 2019 (U.S.)	Trilogy 2	Universal (Japan), Concord (U.S.)	2016	[2CD] Grammy won album
2021	Resonance	Universal	2016-05-19, -22, -29	Duet ith Makoto Ozone [2CD]

Compilations

• Inner Space (Atlantic, 1973) – contains all previously published and two unreleased tracks from Tones for Joan's Bones recorded in 1966 & 1968
• Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner (Atlantic, 1976)
• Chick Corea Compact Jazz (Polydor, 1987)
• Best of Chick Corea (Blue Note, 1993)
• Music Forever & Beyond: The Selected Works of Chick Corea 1964 - 1996 (GRP, 1996) – discs 1-4 are a career-spanning retrospective; disc 5 is all-new recordings of standards, and one original, with the Time Warp quartet
• Selected Recordings (ECM, 2002)
• The Complete "Is" Sessions (Blue Note, 2002) – combined the albums Is and Sundance with alternate takes
• Very Best of Chick Corea (Universal, 2004)
• The Song Is You (Douglas, 2005)[2CD] – combined version of Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 and Woodstock Jazz Festival 2 (Douglas Music, 1997)
• Five Trios (Stretch, 2007)[6CD]

• Electric Chick (Verve, 2008)
• The Montreux Years (Montreux Jazz Festival/BMG, 2022) – rec. 1988, 1993, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010

As group leader

Circle (with Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul)

• (CBS/Sony, 1971) – recorded in 1970
• (CBS/Sony, 1971)
• Paris Concert (ECM, 1972) – recorded in 1971
• Circling In (Blue Note, 1975) – recorded in 1970
• Circulus (Blue Note, 1978) – recorded in 1970

Studio albums

• 1972: Return To Forever (ECM, 1972) – as Chick Corea's album
• 1972: Light as a Feather (Polydor, 1973)
• 1973: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor, 1973)
• 1974: Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor, 1974)
• 1975: No Mystery (Polydor, 1975)
• 1976: Romantic Warrior (Columbia, 1976)
• 1977: Musicmagic (Columbia, 1977)

Live albums

• 1977: Live (Columbia)[4LP] – live
• 2009: Returns (Eagle)[2CD][DVD-Video] – live
• 2011: Forever (Concord)[2CD] – as Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White's album
• 2012: The Mothership Returns (Eagle)[2CD + DVD-Video] – live

Compilations

• 1980: The Best of Return to Forever (Columbia)
• 1996: Return to the 7th Galaxy: The Anthology (Verve Records)
• 2008: The Definitive Collection (Verve Records)
• 2008: R.T.F, the Anthology

Posthumous release

• Live in Japan 1983 (Hi Hat, 2021) – live recorded in 1983
• Alive in America (Renaissance, 2022) – live recorded in 1974
• Sardinia (Candid, 2023) - live recorded in 2018

Chick Corea Elektric Band

Studio albums

Year	Title	Label	Date recorded	Notes
1986	The Chick Corea Elektric Band		1986-01
1987	Light Years	GRP	1987?
1988	Eye of the Beholder	GRP	1988?
1990	Inside Out	GRP	1990?
1991	Beneath the Mask	GRP	1991?
1993	Elektric Band II: Paint the World	GRP	1993?
2004	To the Stars	Stretch	2004

Live albums

Year	Title	Label	Date recorded	Notes
1996	Live from Elario's (First Gig)	Stretch	1985-04-19
2017	Live in Tokyo 1987	Universal Music	1987-10-08	reissue of disk 2 of GRP Super Live in Concert (GRP, 1988)[2CD]
2023	The Future Is Now	Candid	2016–2017

Chick Corea Akoustic Band

Live albums

Year	Title	Label	Date recorded	Notes
1987		Jazz Door	1987-10-01	Unofficial release
1991	Alive	GRP	1989-12-16
1996	Live from Blue Note Tokyo	Stretch	1992	Live at Blue Note Tokyo
2019	Live	Stretch	2018-01-13	[2CD] Grammy won track included

As sideman

• Children of Forever (Polydor, 1973)
• Journey to Love (Nemperor, 1975)
• Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (Epic, 1980)
• Up (Mack Avenue, 2014)

• Water Babies (Columbia, 1976) - recorded in1967–68
• Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1968)
• In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969)
• Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)
• (Columbia, 1970)
• Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1971) – a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson
• Live-Evil (Columbia, 1971)
• On the Corner (Columbia, 1972)
• Big Fun (Columbia, 1974) - compilation recorded in 1969-72
• (Columbia, 1977) - recorded in 1970
• Circle in the Round (Columbia, 1979) - compilation recorded in 1955-70
• 1969 Miles Festiva de Juan Pins (CBS/Sony, 1993) - recorded in 1969
• (Columbia Legacy, 2013) - recorded in 1969
• Bitches Brew Live (Sony, 2011) - live recorded in 1969-70
• (Columbia Legacy, 2014)[4CD] - recorded in 1970

• The Philosophy of the Spiritual (Cobblestone, 1971) reissued as With Understanding (Muse, 1975)

• Joe Farrell Quartet (CTI, 1970)
• Outback (CTI, 1971)
• Skate Board Park (Xanadu, 1979)

• Sweet Rain (Verve, 1967)
• (Verve, 1968)
• Captain Marvel (Verve, 1972)

• Mirror Mirror (MPS, 1980)
• Relaxin' at Camarillo (Contemporary, 1981) – recorded in 1979
• Big Band (Verve, 1996)

• To Hear Is to See! (Prestige, 1969)
• Consciousness! (Prestige, 1970)

• The Laws of Jazz (Atlantic, 1964)
• Flute By-Laws (Atlantic, 1966)
• Laws' Cause (Atlantic, 1968)
• Wild Flower (Atlantic, 1972)
• Family (Columbia, 1980)
• Blanchard: New Earth Sonata (Columbia Masterworks, 1985)

• Herbie Mann Plays the Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (Atlantic, 1965)
• Monday Night at the Village Gate (Atlantic, 1966) - recorded in 1965
• Latin Mann (Columbia, 1965)
• Standing Ovation at Newport (Atlantic, 1965)

• Land of the Midnight Sun (Columbia, 1976)
• Splendido Hotel (Columbia, 1980) – recorded in 1979
• Consequence of Chaos (Telarc, 2006)

• The Thing to Do (Blue Note, 1964)
• Down with It! (Blue Note, 1965)
• Boss Horn (Blue Note, 1966)

• John Patitucci (GRP, 1987)
• On the Corner (GRP, 1989)
• Heart of the Bass (Stretch, 1992)

• Super Nova (Blue Note, 1969)
• Moto Grosso Feio (Blue Note, 1974) – recorded in 1970

• Soul Burst (Verve, 1966)
• Along Comes Cal (Verve, 1967)

• In the Pocket (Headfirst, 1981)
• Skyrocket (Summit Records, 1995)

With others

• Jon Anderson, (Blue Élan Records, 2000)
• Bob Berg, Enter The Spirit (Stretch, 1993)
• Dee Dee Bridgewater, Just Family (Elektra, 1977)
• Gary Burton, Like Minds (Concord, 1998) – Grammy won album. recorded in 1997.
• Marion Brown, Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM, 1970)
• Anthony Braxton, The Complete Braxton (Freedom, 1973)
• Donald Byrd, The Creeper (Blue Note, 1981) - recorded in 1967
• Ron Carter, Parade (Milestone, 1980) – recorded in 1979
• Jean-Luc Ponty, Open Mind (Atlantic Records) – recorded in 1984
• Larry Coryell, Spaces (Vanguard, 1970)
• Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid, 2021)
• Maynard Ferguson, Primal Scream (Columbia, 1976)
• David Friesen, Amber Skies (Palo Alto, 1983)
• Letizia Gambi, Introducing Letizia Gambi (Jando Music / Via Veneto Jazz, 2012)^{[4] [5]}
• Eddie Gómez, Gomez (Interface, 1984)
• Herbie Hancock, Gershwin's World (Verve, 1998)
• L. Ron Hubbard & Friends, The Road to Freedom (Revenimus Music, 1986)
• Bobby Hutcherson, Total Eclipse (Blue Note. 1969)
• Montego Joe, Arriba! Con Montego Joe (Prestige, 1964)
• Elvin Jones, Merry-Go-Round (Blue Note. 1971)
• Chaka Khan, Echoes of an Era (Elektra, 1982)
• Rolf Kühn, Going to the Rainbow (BASF, 1971)
• Paco de Lucia, Zyryab (Polygram, 1990)
• The Manhattan Transfer, The Chick Corea Songbook (Four Quarters Entertainment, 2009)
• Tete Montoliu, Lunch in L.A. (Contemporary, 1980)
• Airto Moreira, Free (CTI, 1972)
• Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, Greatest Hits of 1790 (Columbia Masterworks, 1980)
• Armando Peraza, Wild Thing (Skye, 1968)
• Dave Pike, Manhattan Latin (Decca, 1964)
• Pete La Roca, Turkish Women at the Bath (Douglas, 1967) – reissued under Corea's name as Bliss (Muse, 1973)
• Wallace Roney, Village (Warner Bros., 1997) – recorded in 1996
• Antonio Sánchez, Migration (CAM Jazz, 2007)
• Mongo Santamaria, Skins (Milestone, 1962)
• Sonny Stitt, Stitt Goes Latin (Roost, 1963)
• John Surman, Conflagration (Dawn, 1971)
• Gábor Szabó, Femme Fatale (Pepita, 1979)
• Miroslav Vitous, Universal Syncopations (ECM, 2003)
• Mark Weinstein, Cuban Roots (Musicor, 1967)
• Sadao Watanabe, Round Trip (CBS/Sony, 1970)
• Béla Fleck, "Remembrance" (Thirty Tigers, 2024)

References

1. Web site: Early Years: 1941-71 | Chick Corea.
2. Web site: Chick Corea.
3. Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums - May 20, 1978.
4. Web site: Letizia Gambi, l'italiana . 29 October 2013 .
5. Web site: Introducing Letizia Gambi . 22 October 2012 .