Chick Corea discography

Chick Corea (1941–2021) 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'."

Compilations

 * Inner Space (Atlantic, 1973) – 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 (Atlantic, 1976)
 * Chick Corea Compact Jazz (Polydor, 1987)
 * Best of Chick Corea (Blue Note, 1993)
 * Music Forever & Beyond: The Selected Works of Chick Corea 1964 - 1996 (GRP, 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 (ECM, 2002)
 * The Complete "Is" Sessions (Blue Note, 2002) – combined the albums Is and Sundance with alternate takes
 * Very Best of Chick Corea (Universal, 2004)
 * The Song Is You (Douglas, 2005)[2CD] – combined version of Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 and Woodstock Jazz Festival 2 (Douglas Music, 1997)
 * Five Trios (Stretch, 2007)[6CD]


 * Electric Chick (Verve, 2008)
 * The Montreux Years (Montreux Jazz Festival/BMG, 2022) – rec. 1988, 1993, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010

Circle (with Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul)

 * Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (CBS/Sony, 1971) – recorded in 1970
 * Circle 2: Gathering (CBS/Sony, 1971)
 * Paris Concert (ECM, 1972) – recorded in 1971
 * Circling In (Blue Note, 1975) – recorded in 1970
 * Circulus (Blue Note, 1978) – recorded in 1970

Studio albums

 * 1972: Return To Forever (ECM, 1972) – as Chick Corea's album
 * 1972: Light as a Feather (Polydor, 1973)
 * 1973: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor, 1973)
 * 1974: Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor, 1974)
 * 1975: No Mystery (Polydor, 1975)
 * 1976: Romantic Warrior (Columbia, 1976)
 * 1977: Musicmagic (Columbia, 1977)

Live albums

 * 1977: Live (Columbia)[4LP] – live
 * 2009: Returns (Eagle)[2CD][DVD-Video] – live
 * 2011: Forever (Concord)[2CD] – as Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White's album
 * 2012: The Mothership Returns (Eagle)[2CD + DVD-Video] – live

Compilations

 * 1980: The Best of Return to Forever (Columbia)
 * 1996: Return to the 7th Galaxy: The Anthology (Verve Records)
 * 2008: The Definitive Collection (Verve Records)
 * 2008: R.T.F, the Anthology

Posthumous release

 * Live in Japan 1983 (Hi Hat, 2021) – live recorded in 1983
 * Alive in America (Renaissance, 2022) – live recorded in 1974
 * Sardinia (Candid, 2023) - live recorded in 2018

With Stanley Clarke

 * Children of Forever (Polydor, 1973)
 * Journey to Love (Nemperor, 1975)
 * Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (Epic, 1980)
 * Up (Mack Avenue, 2014)

With Miles Davis

 * Water Babies (Columbia, 1976) - recorded in1967–68
 * Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1968)
 * In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969)
 * Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)
 * Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (Columbia, 1970)
 * Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1971) – a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson
 * Live-Evil (Columbia, 1971)
 * On the Corner (Columbia, 1972)
 * Big Fun (Columbia, 1974) - compilation recorded in 1969-72
 * Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West (Columbia, 1977) - recorded in 1970
 * Circle in the Round (Columbia, 1979) - compilation recorded in 1955-70
 * 1969 Miles Festiva de Juan Pins (CBS/Sony, 1993) - recorded in 1969
 * Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Columbia Legacy, 2013) - recorded in 1969
 * Bitches Brew Live (Sony, 2011) - live recorded in 1969-70
 * Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (Columbia Legacy, 2014)[4CD] - recorded in 1970

With Richard Davis

 * The Philosophy of the Spiritual (Cobblestone, 1971) reissued as With Understanding (Muse, 1975)

With Joe Farrell

 * Joe Farrell Quartet (CTI, 1970)
 * Outback (CTI, 1971)
 * Skate Board Park (Xanadu, 1979)

With Stan Getz

 * Sweet Rain (Verve, 1967)
 * What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (Verve, 1968)
 * Captain Marvel (Verve, 1972)

With Joe Henderson

 * Mirror Mirror (MPS, 1980)
 * Relaxin' at Camarillo (Contemporary, 1981) – recorded in 1979
 * Big Band (Verve, 1996)

With Eric Kloss

 * To Hear Is to See! (Prestige, 1969)
 * Consciousness! (Prestige, 1970)

With Hubert Laws

 * The Laws of Jazz (Atlantic, 1964)
 * Flute By-Laws (Atlantic, 1966)
 * Laws' Cause (Atlantic, 1968)
 * Wild Flower (Atlantic, 1972)
 * Family (Columbia, 1980)
 * Blanchard: New Earth Sonata (Columbia Masterworks, 1985)

With Herbie Mann

 * Herbie Mann Plays the Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (Atlantic, 1965)
 * Monday Night at the Village Gate (Atlantic, 1966) - recorded in 1965
 * Latin Mann (Columbia, 1965)
 * Standing Ovation at Newport (Atlantic, 1965)

With Al di Meola

 * Land of the Midnight Sun (Columbia, 1976)
 * Splendido Hotel (Columbia, 1980) – recorded in 1979
 * Consequence of Chaos (Telarc, 2006)

With Blue Mitchell

 * The Thing to Do (Blue Note, 1964)
 * Down with It! (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Boss Horn (Blue Note, 1966)

With John Patitucci

 * John Patitucci (GRP, 1987)
 * On the Corner (GRP, 1989)
 * Heart of the Bass (Stretch, 1992)

With Wayne Shorter

 * Super Nova (Blue Note, 1969)
 * Moto Grosso Feio (Blue Note, 1974) – recorded in 1970

With Cal Tjader

 * Soul Burst (Verve, 1966)
 * Along Comes Cal (Verve, 1967)

With Allen Vizzutti

 * In the Pocket (Headfirst, 1981)
 * Skyrocket (Summit Records, 1995)

With others

 * Jon Anderson, 1000 Hands: Chapter One (	Blue Élan Records, 2000)
 * Bob Berg, Enter The Spirit (Stretch, 1993)
 * Dee Dee Bridgewater, Just Family (Elektra, 1977)
 * Gary Burton, Like Minds (Concord, 1998) – Grammy won album. recorded in 1997.
 * Marion Brown, Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM, 1970)
 * Anthony Braxton, The Complete Braxton (Freedom, 1973)
 * Donald Byrd, The Creeper (Blue Note, 1981) - recorded in 1967
 * Ron Carter, Parade (Milestone, 1980) – recorded in 1979
 * Jean-Luc Ponty, Open Mind (Atlantic Records) – recorded in 1984
 * Larry Coryell, Spaces (Vanguard, 1970)
 * Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid, 2021)
 * Maynard Ferguson, Primal Scream (Columbia, 1976)
 * David Friesen, Amber Skies (Palo Alto, 1983)
 * Letizia Gambi, Introducing Letizia Gambi (Jando Music / Via Veneto Jazz, 2012)
 * Eddie Gómez, Gomez (Interface, 1984)
 * Herbie Hancock, Gershwin's World (Verve, 1998)
 * L. Ron Hubbard & Friends, The Road to Freedom (Revenimus Music, 1986)
 * Bobby Hutcherson, Total Eclipse (Blue Note. 1969)
 * Montego Joe, Arriba! Con Montego Joe (Prestige, 1964)
 * Elvin Jones, Merry-Go-Round (Blue Note. 1971)
 * Chaka Khan, Echoes of an Era (Elektra, 1982)
 * Rolf Kühn, Going to the Rainbow (BASF, 1971)
 * Paco de Lucia, Zyryab (Polygram, 1990)
 * The Manhattan Transfer, The Chick Corea Songbook (Four Quarters Entertainment, 2009)
 * Tete Montoliu, Lunch in L.A. (Contemporary, 1980)
 * Airto Moreira, Free (CTI, 1972)
 * Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, Greatest Hits of 1790 (Columbia Masterworks, 1980)
 * Armando Peraza, Wild Thing (Skye, 1968)
 * Dave Pike, Manhattan Latin (Decca, 1964)
 * Pete La Roca, Turkish Women at the Bath (Douglas, 1967) – reissued under Corea's name as Bliss (Muse, 1973)
 * Wallace Roney, Village (Warner Bros., 1997) – recorded in 1996
 * Antonio Sánchez, Migration (CAM Jazz, 2007)
 * Mongo Santamaria, Skins (Milestone, 1962)
 * Sonny Stitt, Stitt Goes Latin (Roost, 1963)
 * John Surman, Conflagration (Dawn, 1971)
 * Gábor Szabó, Femme Fatale (Pepita, 1979)
 * Miroslav Vitous, Universal Syncopations (ECM, 2003)
 * Mark Weinstein, Cuban Roots (Musicor, 1967)
 * Sadao Watanabe, Round Trip (CBS/Sony, 1970)
 * Béla Fleck, "Remembrance" (Thirty Tigers, 2024)