Chick Corea discography


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. 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'."

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

  • Inner Space – 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
  • Works
  • Chick Corea Compact Jazz
  • Best of Chick Corea
  • Music Forever & Beyond: The Selected Works of Chick Corea 1964 - 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
  • The Complete "Is" Sessions – combined the albums Is and Sundance with alternate takes
  • Very Best of Chick Corea
  • The Song Is You – combined version of Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 and Woodstock Jazz Festival 2
  • Five Trios
  • Electric Chick
  • The Montreux Years – rec. 1988, 1993, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010

    As group leader

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  • Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert – recorded in 1970
  • Circle 2: Gathering
  • Paris Concert – recorded in 1971
  • Circling In – recorded in 1970
  • Circulus – recorded in 1970

    [Return to Forever]

Studio albums
  • 1972: Return To Forever – as Chick Corea's album
  • 1972: Light as a Feather
  • 1973: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
  • 1974: Where Have I Known You Before
  • 1975: No Mystery
  • 1976: Romantic Warrior
  • 1977: ''Musicmagic''
    Live albums
  • 1977: Live – live
  • 2009: Returns – live
  • 2011: Forever – as Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White's album
  • 2012: The Mothership Returns – live
    Compilations
  • 1980: The Best of Return to Forever
  • 1996: Return to the 7th Galaxy: The Anthology
  • 2008: The Definitive Collection
  • 2008: ''R.T.F, the Anthology''

    Posthumous release

  • Live in Japan 1983 – live recorded in 1983
  • Alive in America – live recorded in 1974
  • Sardinia - live recorded in 2018

    Chick Corea Elektric Band

Studio albums
Live albums

Chick Corea Akoustic Band

Studio album(s)
Live albums

As sideman

With [Stanley Clarke]