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After working with jazz luminaries like Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Chick Corea performed and recorded in Miles Davis’s electric bands in the late 1960s and early ’70s. During that time, he played on Davis’s Bitches Brew, a revolutionary album that gave birth to jazz-rock fusion. Davis, who’d already pioneered cool and modal jazz, became a chief inspiration and mentor for Corea.
“When I distill the whole experience down, the one thing that continues to live, that I learned from Miles and was an inspiration, is that he never compromised his vision,” Corea says. “He always had the courage and the strength to just go ahead and turn the next corner and try the next idea. He didn’t wait until it was popular or until someone agreed with him or the record company gave him the okay to do it. He went ahead and pursued it, because that’s what he saw to do. That is an intense demonstration of integrity, where you follow through with what your dream is. He strengthened that purpose in me.”
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Tue., June 3, 8 p.m., 2008
