(crítica) Versatile jazz giant revisits flamenco influences for fun

Chick Corea will bring acoustic ensemble to Power Center
Sunday, June 19, 2005
BY KEVIN RANSOM
News Special Writer

Jazz pianist Chick Corea is nothing if not versatile. And restless.

Over the course of a career that now spans almost 40 years, Corea has navigated through many sub-genres of the jazz idiom - from bebop and jazz-rock fusion to acoustic, avant-garde, electronic and Latin jazz.

Corea's latest recording, "To the Stars," released last year, was a reunion of his Elektric Band, which included such hotshot instrumentalists as guitarist Frank Gambale and bassist John Patitucci. On that disc, the Elektrics explored some cosmic musical terrain - fitting, since the music was based on L. Ron Hubbard's science-fiction novel of the same name. The music was often spacey and sometimes frenetic. Corea is a follower of Scientology, a religion founded by Hubbard.

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