Under Construction @ Keele 2016 Volume 2 Issue 2 | Page 10

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Review of ‘Chick Corea Trio’ Trilogy (Concord, 2014)
Jason Balzarano
(PhD/GTA Music, Keele University)
Chick Corea is an artist who, in his sixth decade of producing recorded works, continues to
push the genre defined boundaries of jazz and classical music, and re-imagine the myriad of
elements associated with the fusion idiom. His 2014 offering for Concord Jazz, Trilogy,
working with his current trio of Christian McBride (bass) and Brian Blade (drums), is a three
CD retrospective and reinvention of many classic jazz standards, original works, and a foray
into Alexander Scriabin added for good measure. Corea’s global appeal is on display here
with a collection of live recordings from around the world, complete with audible recognition
after every separate performance that never seems to waiver in its energy and vigour. These
demonstrate not only the old adage that music is an international language, but in Corea’s
hands, the communication between perform