The Chick Corea Ensemble play, listen to, and study the music of Chick Corea, one of the most prolific, influential, and multi-directional pianist/composers in jazz. Special attention is paid to developing students’ improvisational originality, melodic and harmonic clarity, sensitivity to dynamics and timbral nuances, propulsive and relaxed sense of time and rhythm, and interplay within the rhythm section. Works including “Steps,” “What Was,” “Tones for Joan’s Bones,” “Windows,” “Litha,” “Captain Marvel,” “Like This,” and “Morning Sprite” are played.
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