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Corea

American  
[kuh-ree-uh] / kəˈri ə /

noun

  1. Armando Anthony Chick, 1941–2021, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.


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As a member of Davis’ band in the late ’60s and early ’70s — a group that also counted Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Billy Cobham among its members — DeJohnette pumped out psychedelic rock and funk rhythms that put Davis’ music in conversation with that of artists like James Brown and Sly Stone.

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Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson and Lionel Hampton are just some of the iconic acts who played there, and Chick Corea, Peterson, Keith Jarrett and James Carter recorded live records there.

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He has just released an iridescent recording of a piece written for him and vibraphonist Gary Burton by the late jazz great Chick Corea.

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Assistant city attorney Hector Emilio Corea said in a sworn affidavit that he was part of a team of lawyers and staffers from the city attorney’s office who painstakingly combed through most of the plaintiff officers’ backgrounds.

From Los Angeles Times

The yearbook, which remains available for purchase online, is now sold only to current and former law enforcement personnel, but Corea said he used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to show that those restrictions weren’t in place as recently as November 2022.

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