The Supernova that Was Jazz-Rock Fusion

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was a Massachusets-born musician of Italian descent who proved to be constantly open to both new ideas and influences as well as new technologies and technological advances throughout the course of his long career--a career that spanned  Son of a trumpeter who spent his long professional career as the leader of a Dixieland jazz band, Chick was surrounded by music the entirety of his childhood. Though introduced to piano by his father, Chick gravitated to the drums before returning to piano as a means to explore his own ideas and curiosities. Piano lessons in his teens were purely focused on Classical Music despite Chick's predilection for jazz. All of these childhood experiences and influences remained as strong presences in his music throughout his career with classical (training), Latin (family), drumming (early preference), and multiple modalities of jazz (his true love) appearing in songs, dictating album themes, or cycling through his mu...