Rebroadcast February 15, 2021.
Starting at midnight tonight, a 24-hour memorial to Chick Corea on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org (all day Monday Feb. 15). From 6pm to 9pm, we are going to rebroadcast the Deep Focus that we aired on May 6, 2013 on the subject of Chick, Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes with my guest Brian Charette.
I always liked Chick Corea’s music but, not being a musician, I never knew *why* I liked it. That is to say that I never really understood what it was that was so distinctive about what he was doing, musically speaking. Brian Charette revealed Chick’s innovations and their antecedents in the music going back generations. It was a true master class on how a virtuoso such as Chick expands the vocabulary of the music. And it only added to my enjoyment of the rare recordings from the WKCR archives that we listened to with our audience.
Please join us in (re)discovering these loving insights into Chick Corea’s utterly unique approach to the music.
Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
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