Even in a career packed with watershed years, Chick’s 70th stands out as a milestone. Let’s take a look at the numbers:
Grammy Awards: 2
- Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Forever, with Corea, Clarke & White
- Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “500 Miles High,” from Forever
New albums: 6
- Forever, with Corea, Clarke & White
- Orvieto, with Stefano Bollani
- Further Explorations, with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian
- The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet and Chamber Orchestra
- The Mothership Returns, with Return to Forever
- Hot House, with Gary Burton (featuring the Harlem String Quartet)
Live concert tours: 9
- Return to Forever IV
- Birthday Celebration at the Blue Note (10 bands / 46 shows)
- Corea / Glawischnig / Blade
- Chick Corea & Gary Burton Duet
- Chick Corea: Solo Piano
- Jack DeJohnette / Chick Corea / Stanley Clarke Trio
- Corea, Clarke & White
- Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin Duet
- Chick Corea & Stefano Bollani Duet
Photo by Yasuhisa Yoneda
