Chick Corea, who turns 75 on June 12, will preside over an eight-week residency this fall at the Blue Note Jazz Club. Credit Aaron Meekcoms, via Chick Corea Productions
June 5, 2016
When the jazz pianist Chick Corea celebrates a milestone birthday, he doesn’t hold back. In 2001, when he turned 60, he played a three-week career retrospective at the Blue Note Jazz Club. He did it again at 70, with an even broader array of partners.
And this year, for his 75th, Mr. Corea will preside over a marathon celebration at the club from Oct. 19 to Dec. 12 — eight weeks, with more than a dozen bands. Among them are two reconstituted versions of Return to Forever: an acoustic combo with Hubert Laws on flute and Ravi Coltrane on tenor saxophone, and a fusion powerhouse with John McLaughlin on guitar, Victor Wooten on bass and Lenny White on drums.
Mr. Corea will also connect with a longtime partner, the vibraphonist Gary Burton, and pay tribute to a former mentor, Miles Davis (with fellow Davis alumni like the bassist Marcus Miller and the alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett). He’ll play several nights of piano duos, including one with Brad Mehldau. And he’ll revisit his 1976 album “The Leprechaun” and his 1981 LP “Three Quartets,” with groups featuring Steve Gadd on drums. (Full details are at bluenote.net, with a presale starting on Wednesday.)
Along with giving Mr. Corea an excuse to convene some of his favorite collaborators, the series underscores the variety and versatility of his musical interests. He has won 22 Grammy Awards — most recently last year, for the double album “Trilogy” — and been recognized as a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. He called from his home in Clearwater, Fla. These are excerpts from the conversation.
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