Name	Brian Blade
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth date	July 25, 1970
Birth place	Shreveport, Louisiana United States
Genre	Jazz, alternative rock, blues rock, jazz fusion
Occupation	Musician, bandleader, composer
Instrument	Drums, percussion, guitar, violin, recorder
Label	Nonesuch, Columbia, Verve, Blue Note, Warner Bros.
Website
Notable instruments	}}

Brian Blade (born July 25, 1970) in Shreveport, Louisiana is an American jazz drummer, composer, session musician, and singer-songwriter.

Biography[link]

Early years[link]

As a young boy, Blade grew up in a home in Shreveport, Louisiana in which he frequently heard Gospel music and soul music. In elementary school, his music appreciation classes furthered this musical upbringing, and at age nine he began playing the violin; he continued to do so until age thirteen, when he, inspired by his brother, Brady Blade, Jr., became a drummer.

During highschool Brian began listening to the music of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Elvin Jones, and Joni Mitchell. By the age of eighteen, Brian moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University. During this period, he was able to study and play with most of the master musicians living in New Orleans, such as: John Vidacovich, Ellis Marsalis, Steve Masakowski, Bill Huntington, Mike Pellera, John Mahoney, George French, Germaine Bazzle, David Lee, Jr., Alvin Red Tyler, Tony Dagradi and Harold Battiste. Blade made his first recorded appearances as a sideman with Kenny Garrett and Joshua Redman and continued to work in that capacity with other musicians.

Fellowship Band, Friendly Travelers and sideman work[link]

In 1998, Brian Blade formed Brian Blade Fellowship with pianist Jon Cowherd. Also joining the group were saxophonists Myron Walden and Melvin Butler, guitarist Jeff Parker, pedal steel Guitarist Dave Easley, and bassist Chris Thomas. This group released their self-titled debut album before replacing Parker with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel for 1999's Perceptual. Easley then departed before 2008's Season of Changes, which was released under the name Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band.

While continuing to work with the Fellowship Band, Blade has been a member of Wayne Shorter's most recent quartet. He has continued working as a studio musician and has recorded with Joni Mitchell, Bill Frisell, Ellis Marsalis, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Dorothy Scott, Billy Childs, Chris Potter and David Binney. He has also played with Herbie Hancock and has been involved with guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel in the duo Friendly Travelers, who released their self-titled debut album in 2007. Recently, he has teamed up with Trixie Whitley (daughter of Chris Whitley), Daniel Lanois, and others in the band Black Dub.

Singer-songwriter work[link]

In 2009, Blade released his first album as a singer-songwriter, Mama Rosa. The album features Daniel Lanois and many of his bandmates from the Fellowship Band.

Equipment[link]

Blade primarily uses vintage Gretsch drums, but has been known to tour with a Canopus Club Kit in Japan. His primary Gretsch kit for many years was a silver sparkle 1960s Round Badge in a "Progressive Jazz" configuration, but included an extremely rare 16" diameter bass drum. Only a handful were made in the 60s. In the mid 2000s he acquired another exceedingly rare kit - a Cadillac green nitron, Birdland house kit built in the 1950s. This kit included a more traditional Progressive Jazz 20" diameter bass drum and is arguably one of the rarest vintage drum sets in existence.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

''Brian Blade Fellowship'' (Blue Note, 1998)

''Perceptual'' (Blue Note, 2000)

''Season of Changes'' (Verve, 2008)

''Mama Rosa'' (Verve Forecast, 2009)

As co-leader[link]

Trio with Wolfgang Muthspiel and Marc Johnson

''Real Book Stories'' (Quinton, 2001)

''Air, Love and Vitamins'' (Quinton, 2004)

Duo with Wolfgang Muthspiel

''Friendly Travelers'' (Material, 2007)

''Friendly Travelers Live'' (Material, 2008)

As sideman[link]

With Joshua Redman

''Compass''

''Back East''

''Mood Swing''

''Freedom in the Groove''

''Spirit of the Moment - Live at the Village Vanguard''

''Timeless Tales for Changing Times''

''Elastic'' (with Joshua Redman Elastic Band)

''Momentum''

''Yaya3''

With Wayne Shorter

''Footprints Live!'' (Verve, 2002)

''Alegria'' (Verve, 2003)

''Beyond the Sound Barrier'' (Verve, 2005)

With others

1995 - Brad Mehldau: ''Introducing Brad Mehldau'' (1995, Warner)

1996 - Kenny Garrett: ''Pursuance: Music of John Coltrane'' (Warner)

1997 - Bob Dylan: ''Time Out of Mind'' (Columbia)

1998 - David Berkman: ''Handmade'' (Palmetto)

1998 - Joni Mitchell: ''Painting with Words and Music'' (DVD, Eagle Rock)

2006 - John Patitucci: ''Line by Line'' (JVC Victor/Concord)

2001 - Chris Potter: ''Gratitude'' (Verve)

2001 - David Binney: ''South'' (ACT)

2002 - Charlie Haden: ''American Dreams'' (Verve)

2002 - Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, and Roy Hargrove: ''Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall'' (Verve)

2003 - Daniel Lanois: ''Shine'' (ANTI-)

2004 - David Binney: ''Welcome to Life'' (Mythology)

2006 - Kenny Garrett: ''Beyond the Wall'' (Nonesuch)

2010 - Daniel Lanois: ''Black Dub'' (Red Ink)

2010 - Scott Colley: ''Empire'' (Cam Jazz)

2011 - David Binney: ''Graylen Epicenter'' (Mythology)

2012 - Rolf and Joachim Kühn Quartet: ''Lifeline'' (Boutique)

References[link]

External links[link]

Official site

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Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943 in Philadelphia) is an American jazz pianist. Known for his lyrical style of playing, Barron has appeared on hundreds of recordings as both leader and sideman and is consequently considered one of the most important and influential jazz pianists since bebop.

Biography[link]

Kenny Barron is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron (1927–1989). One of his first gigs was as pianist with the Dizzy Gillespie quartet.

He graduated in 1978 with a BA in Arts from Empire State College (Metropolitan Center, New York City).

He also co-led the groups Sphere and the Classical Jazz Quartet.

Between 1987 and 1991, Barron recorded several albums with Stan Getz, most notably ''Bossas & Ballads – The Lost Sessions'', ''Serenity'', ''Anniversary'' and ''People Time'', a 2CD set.

He has been nominated nine times for Grammy Awards and for the American Jazz Hall of Fame. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

For over 25 years, Barron taught piano and keyboard harmony at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He now teaches at the Juilliard School of Music. His piano students have included Noah Baerman, Earl MacDonald, Harry Pickens, and Aaron Parks.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

Year	Album	Personnel	Label
1968	''You Had Better Listen''		Atlantic Records
1973	''Sunset To Dawn''		Muse Records
1974	''Peruvian Blue''	Ted Dunbar, David Williams, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Richard Landrum, Sonny Morgan	Muse
1975	''Lucifer''	Carlos Alomar, Bill Barron, Billy Hart, James Spaulding, Charles Sullivan, Chris White	Muse
1975	''In Tandem''	Ted Dunbar	Muse
1978	''Innoncence''
1980	''Golden Lotus''		Muse
1981	''At the Piano''	Solo	Xanadu Records
1983	''Green Chimneys''	Buster Williams, Ben Riley	Criss Cross Jazz
1984	''1+1+1''		Black Hawk
1984	''Landscape''	Cecil McBee, Al Foster	Baystate
1985	''Autumn In New York'' (LP) ''New York Attitude'' (CD)	Rufus Reid, Freddie Waits	Uptown Records
1985	''Scratch''	Dave Holland, Daniel Humair	Enja Records
1986	''What If''	Wallace Roney, John Stubblefield, Cecil McBee, Victor Lewis	Enja
1986	''Two as One''	Buster Williams	Red Records
1988	''Live At Fat Tuesdays''		Enja Records
1989	''Rhythm-a-ning''		Candid Records
1990	''Invitation''	Ralph Moore, David Williams, Lewis Nash	Criss Cross
1990	''Live at Maybeck Hall''	Solo	Concord
1990	''The Only One''	Ray Drummond, Ben Riley	Reservoir
1991	''Lemuria - Seascape''	Ray Drummond, Ben Riley	Candid
1991	''Confirmation''	Ray Drummond, Ben Riley, Barry Harris	Candid
1991	''The Moment''	Victor Lewis, Rufus Reid	Reservoir
1991	''Quickstep''		Enja
1992	''People Time''	Stan Getz	Polygram
1993	''Other Places''	Mino Cinelu, Bobby Hutcherson, Victor Lewis, Ralph Moore, Rufus Reid	Verve Records
1993	''Spiral''	Solo	Enja
1993	''Sambao''	Toninho Horta, Victor Lewis, Nico Assumpção, Mino Cinelu	Verve
1994	''Wanton Spirit''	Roy Haynes, Charlie Haden	Verve
1996	''Swamp Sally''	Mino Cinelu	Polygram
1993	''Things Unseen''		Verve
1998		Charlie Haden	Verve
2001	''Freefall''	Regina Carter	Verve
2001	''Live At Bradley's''	Ray Drummond, Ben Riley
2002	''Canta Brazil''	Trio da Paz	Sunnyside
2003	''Peace''	George Robert	DIW Records
2004	''Images''	Anne Drummond, Kimberly Thompson, Kiyoshi Kitagawa	Sunnyside
2008	''The Traveler''		Sunnyside
2009	''Minor Blues''	George Mraz, Ben Riley	Venus Records

As sideman[link]

With Bob Thiele Collective

''Louis Satchmo'' (1991)

With Ron Carter

''Yellow & Green'' (CTI, 1976)

''Piccolo'' (Milestone, 1977)

With Continuum ''Mad About Tadd'' (1980, Palo Alto Records) With Charles Davis

''Dedicated to Tadd'' (1979, West 54 Records)

With Booker Ervin

''Tex Book Tenor'' (Blue Note, 1968)

With Ella Fitzgerald

''All That Jazz'' (1989)

With Stan Getz

''Bossas & Ballads - The Lost Sessions'' (1989)

With Dizzy Gillespie

''Jambo Caribe'' (Limelight, 1964)

''The Melody Lingers On'' (Limelight, 1966)

With Joe Henderson

''The Kicker'' (1967)

With Ron Holloway

''Struttin''' (1995)

With Bobby Hutcherson

''Now!'' (1969)

With Freddie Hubbard

''Outpost'' (1981)

With Elvin Jones

''New Agenda'' (Vanguard, 1975)

''Time Capsule'' (Vanguard, 1977)

With Yusef Lateef

''The Gentle Giant'' (Atlantic, 1971)

''Hush 'N' Thunder'' (Atlantic, 1972)

''Part of the Search'' (Atlantic, 1973)

''10 Years Hence'' (Atlantic, 1974)

''The Doctor is In... and Out'' (Atlantic, 1976)

With Marvin Peterson

''Naima'' (1978)

''The Angels of Atlanta'' (1981)

With Charles Sullivan

''Re-Entry'' (1975)

''Kamau'' (1995)

With Tom Varner

''Jazz French Horn'' (Soul Note, 1985)

With Tyrone Washington

''Natural Essence'' (1967)

With Jon Irabagon

''The Observer'' (2009)

With Yusef Lateef

''The Blue Yusef Lateef'' (1968)

''The Gentle Giant'' (1972)

''10 Years Hence: Recorded Live At Keystone Korner, San Francisco'' (1975)

References [link]

External links[link]

Kennybarron.com

Kenny Barron Discography at ''www.JazzDiscography.com''

Int'l Jazz Prod.

Kenny Barron at NPR Music

I Remember Kenny Barron, by Steve Holt

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name	Chick Corea
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth name	Armando Anthony Corea
birth date	June 12, 1941
birth place	Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
instrument	Piano, keyboards, synthesizers, organ, vibraphone, drums
genre	Jazz, jazz fusion, post-bop, latin jazz, classical music, avant-garde jazz, bebop
occupation	Pianist, keyboardist, composer, bandleader
years active	1962–present
label	ECM, Polydor, Stretch, Warner Bros.
associated acts	Return to Forever, Miles Davis, Five Peace Band, Chaka Khan, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Chick Corea's Akoustic Band, Circle, Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Hubert Laws, Herbie Mann, Miroslav Vitous, Blue Mitchell, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Eddie Gomez, John Patitucci, Frank Gambale, Anthony Braxton, Al Di Meola, Herbie Hancock, Béla Fleck, John McLaughlin, Brian Blade, Bobby McFerrin
website
notable instruments	}}

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.

Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Keith Jarrett, he has been described as one of the major jazz piano voices to emerge in the post-John Coltrane era.

His career has been driven by his will to operate as a free agent and compulsively explore different avenues of music making. This hunger has positioned him as an important catalyst in the world of serious, mainstream acoustic jazz, and he is one of the most influential and widely studied figures in the last 40 years.

Corea continued to pursue other collaborations and to explore various musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He is also known for promoting and fundraising for a number of social issues, such as eradicating social illiteracy, and is a Scientologist.

Life and career[link]

Youth[link]

Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He is of Sicilian and Spanish descent. His father, a jazz trumpet player who had led a Dixieland band in the Boston area in the 1930s and 1940s, introduced him to the piano at the age of four. Growing up surrounded by jazz music, he was influenced at an early age by bebop and stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, and Lester Young. At eight Corea also took up drums, which would later influence his use of the piano as a percussion instrument.

Corea developed his piano skills by exploring music on his own. A notable influence was concert pianist Salvatore Sullo from whom Corea started taking lessons at age eight and who introduced him to classical music, helping spark his interest in musical composition. He also spent several years as a performer and soloist for the Knights of St. Rose, a drum and bugle corps based in Chelsea.

Given a black tuxedo by his father, he started doing gigs when in high school. He enjoyed listening to Herb Pomeroy's band at the time, and had a trio which would play Horace Silver's music at a local jazz club.

He eventually decided to move to New York where he studied musical education for one month at Columbia University and six months at The Juilliard School. He quit after finding both disappointing, but liked the atmosphere of New York where the musical scene became the starting point for his professional career.

Early career[link]

Corea's first major professional gig was with Cab Calloway. Corea started his professional career in the 1960s playing with trumpeter Blue Mitchell and Latin greats such as Herbie Mann, Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaría. One of the earliest recordings of his playing is with Blue Mitchell's quintet on ''The Thing To Do''. This album features his composition "Chick's Tune", a clever retooling of "You Stepped Out of a Dream" that demonstrates the angular melodies and Latin-and-swing rhythms that characterize, in part, Corea's personal style. (Incidentally, the same tune features a drum solo by a very young Al Foster.)

His first album as a leader was ''Tones for Joan's Bones'' in 1966, two years before the release of his album ''Now He Sings, Now He Sobs'', with Roy Haynes on drums and Miroslav Vitouš on bass.

He made another sideman appearance with Stan Getz on 1967's ''Sweet Rain'' (Verve Records).

Avant garde period[link]

From 1968 to 1971 Corea had associations with avant garde players and his solo style revealed a dissonant, avant garde orientation. His avant garde playing can be heard on his solo works of the period, his solos in live recordings under the leadership of Miles Davis, his recordings with Circle, and his playing on Joe Farrell's ''Song of the Wind'' album on CTI Records.

In September 1968 Corea replaced Herbie Hancock in the piano chair in Davis' band and appeared on landmark albums such as ''Filles de Kilimanjaro'', ''In a Silent Way'', and ''Bitches Brew''. In concert, Davis' rhythm section of Corea, Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette combined elements of free jazz improvisation and rock music. Corea experimented using electric instruments with the Davis band, mainly the Fender Rhodes electric piano.

In live performance he frequently processed the output of his electric piano with a device called a ring modulator, producing sounds reminiscent of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Using this style, he appeared on multiple Davis albums, including ''Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West'' and ''Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East.'' His live performances with the Miles Davis band continued into 1970, with a great touring band of Steven Grossman, tenor sax, Keith Jarrett, additional electric piano and organ, Jack DeJohnette, drums, Dave Holland, bass, Airto Moreira, percussion, and Miles on trumpet.

Holland and Corea left to form their own group, Circle, active in 1970 and 1971. This free jazz group featured multi-reed player Anthony Braxton and drummer Barry Altschul. This band was documented on Blue Note and ECM. Aside from soloing in an atonal style, Corea sometimes reached in the body of the piano and plucked the strings. In 1971 or 1972 Corea struck out on his own.

The concept of communication with an audience became a big thing for me at the time. The reason I was using that concept so much at that point in my life – in 1968, 1969 or so – was because it was a discovery for me. I grew up kind of only thinking how much fun it was to tinkle on the piano and not noticing that what I did had an effect on others. I did not even think about a relationship to an audience, really, until way later.

Jazz fusion[link]

In the early 1970s Corea took a profound stylistic turn from avant garde playing to a crossover jazz fusion style that incorporated Latin jazz elements. He founded Return to Forever in 1971. This band had a fusion sound and even though it relied on electronic instrumentation it drew more on Brazilian and Spanish-American musical styles than on rock music. On its first two records, Return to Forever featured Flora Purim's vocals, the Fender Rhodes electric piano, and Joe Farrell's flute and soprano saxophone. Airto Moreira played drums. Corea's compositions for this group often had a Brazilian tinge. In 1972 Corea played many of the early ''Return to Forever'' songs in a group he put together for Stan Getz. This group, with Stanley Clarke on bass and Tony Williams on drums, recorded the Columbia label album ''Captain Marvel'' under Getz's name.

Only Clarke remained from the group's first lineup; Bill Connors played electric guitar and Lenny White played drums. No one replaced vocalist Purim. (Briefly, in 1977, Corea's wife, Gayle Moran, served as vocalist in the band.) In 1974 Al Di Meola joined the band, replacing Connors. In this second version of Return to Forever, Corea extended the use of synthesizers, particularly Moogs. The group released its final studio record in 1977 named "Romantic Warrior". Thereafter, Corea focused on solo projects.

Corea's composition "Spain" first appeared on the 1972 Return to Forever album ''Light as a Feather''. This is probably his most popular piece, and it has been recorded by a variety of artists. There are also a variety of subsequent recordings by Corea himself in various contexts, including an arrangement for piano and symphony orchestra that appeared in 1999, and a collaborative piano and voice-as-instrument arrangement with Bobby McFerrin on the 1992 album ''Play''. Corea usually performs "Spain" with a prelude based on Joaquín Rodrigo's ''Concierto de Aranjuez'' (1940), which earlier received a jazz orchestration on Miles Davis' and Gil Evans' "Sketches of Spain".

In 1976 he issued ''My Spanish Heart'', influenced by Latin American music and featuring vocalist Moran and electric violinist Jean-Luc Ponty.The record was somewhat misunderstood at the time but it is considered nowadays as a true example of Corea's ability to write fusion material. The album combined jazz, flamenco, supported by plenty of mini- moog backup and a powerful horn section.

The late Ana Mazzotti, a Brazilian jazz pianist and vocalist, dedicated what is perhaps her last ever recorded track, "Grand Chick", to Corea. The song may be found on her "Ao Vivo Guaruja 1982" album. As Ana Mazzotti worked with Brazilian jazz fusion masters Azymuth in her first album, it was further testament to Corea's influence in the genre.

Duet projects[link]

In the 1970s Corea started working occasionally with vibraphonist Gary Burton, with whom he recorded several duet albums on ECM, including 1972's ''Crystal Silence''. They reunited in 2006 for a concert tour. A new record called ''The New Crystal Silence'' (which has received 3 nominations for the 51st Grammy Awards) was issued shortly into 2008. The package includes a disc of duets and another disc featuring the Sydney Symphony.

Later, toward the end of the 1970s, Corea embarked on a series of concerts and two albums with Herbie Hancock. These concerts were presented in elegant settings with both pianists formally dressed, and performing on Yamaha concert grand pianos. The two jazz greats traded playing each other's compositions, as well as pieces by other composers such as Béla Bartók.

In December 2007 Corea recorded a duet album, ''The Enchantment'', with banjoist Bela Fleck. Fleck and Corea toured extensively behind the album in 2007. Fleck was nominated in the Best Instrumental Composition category at the 49th Grammy Awards for the track "Spectacle."

In 2008 Corea collaborated with Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara on the live album ''Duet (Chick Corea and Hiromi)''. The duo played a concert at Tokyo's Budokan arena on April 30.

Later work[link]

Corea's other bands include the Elektric Band, the Akoustic Band, and Origin.

The Akoustic Band released a self-titled album in 1989, and featured John Patitucci on bass and Dave Weckl on drums. It marked a turn back toward traditional jazz in Corea's career, and the bulk of his subsequent recordings have been acoustic ones. The Akoustic Band also provided the music for the 1986 Pixar short Luxo Jr. with their song ''The Game Maker''.

In 1992 Corea started his own label, Stretch Records.

In 2001 the Chick Corea New Trio, with Avishai Cohen and Jeff Ballard on bass and drums, respectively, released the album ''Past, Present & Futures''. The 11-song album includes only one standard composition (Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz"). The rest of the tunes are Corea originals.

He also participated in 1998's ''Like Minds'', which features Gary Burton on vibes, Pat Metheny on guitar, Dave Holland on bass and Roy Haynes on drums.

Recent years have also seen Corea's rising interest in contemporary classical music. He composed his first piano concerto – and an adaptation of his signature piece, ''Spain'', for a full symphony orchestra – and performed it in 1999 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Five years later he composed his first work not to feature any keyboards: His ''String Quartet No. 1'' was specifically written for the Orion String Quartet and performed by them on 2004's Summerfest.

Corea has continued releasing jazz fusion concept albums such as ''To the Stars'' (2004) and ''Ultimate Adventure'' (2006). The latter album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.

In 2008 the second version of Return to Forever (Corea, keyboards; Stanley Clarke, bass; Lenny White, drums; Al Di Meola, guitar) reunited for a worldwide tour. The reunion received positive reviews from most jazz and mainstream publications. Most of the group's studio recordings were re-released on the compilation ''Return to Forever: The Anthology'' to coincide with the tour. A concert DVD recorded during their performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival was released in May 2009. He is recently working on a collaboration CD with the Grammy Award winning jazz vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, due to be released in August 2009.

A new group, the 5 Peace Band, which features Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin, began a world tour in October 2008. Corea had previously worked with McLaughlin in Miles Davis' late 1960s bands, including the group that recorded Davis' album ''Bitches Brew''. Joining Corea and McLaughlin in the 5 Peace Band are saxophonist Kenny Garrett and bassist Christian McBride. Drummer Vinnie Colaiuta played with the band in Europe and on select North American dates; Brian Blade played all dates in Asia and Australia, and most dates in North America.

Scientology[link]

Corea says that Scientology has helped deepen his relationships with others, and helped him find a renewed path. Under the "special thanks" notes, found in all of his later albums, Corea mentions that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, has been a continual source of inspiration. In 1968 Corea discovered ''Dianetics'', Hubbard's principal work, and in the early 1970s developed an interest in Hubbard's science fiction novels. The two exchanged letters until Hubbard's death in 1986, and Corea had three guest appearances on Hubbard's 1982 album ''Space Jazz: The Soundtrack of the Book Battlefield Earth'', noting, "[Hubbard] was a great composer and keyboard player as well. He did many, many things. He was a true Renaissance Man."

Corea said that Scientology became a profound influence on his musical direction in the early 1970s:

Due to Corea's religious affiliation, he was banned from performing in a concert to be held in Stuttgart, Germany, on August 15, 1993. Members of the U.S. Congress sent letters to the German government concerning a violation of basic human rights that are upheld by the German Constitution. The ban was not upheld, and in later years Corea performed in festivals in Germany, including several times at the government-supported International Jazz Festival in Burghausen where he was awarded a plaque in Burghausen's "Street of Fame" in 2011.

In 1998, Corea and fellow entertainers Anne Archer, Isaac Hayes, and Haywood Nelson attended the 30th anniversary of ''Freedom Magazine'', the Church of Scientology's investigative news journal, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to honor 11 human rights activists.

Discography[link]

Awards[link]

Over the years, he has been nominated for 51 Grammy Awards out of which he has won 18: !Year

|	Award	Album/song
Grammy Awards of 1976	1976		''No Mystery'' (with Return to Forever)
		''In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979'' (with Gary Burton)
		''Akoustic Band'' (with Akoustic Band)
		"Rhumbata", ''Native Sense'' (with Gary Burton)
		Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group>Best jazz instrumental performance
		"Spain for Sextet & Orchestra", ''Corea.Concerto''
		"Matrix", ''Rendezvous in New York''
		"The Ultimate Adventure"
		"Three Ghouls", ''The Ultimate Adventure''
		''The New Crystal Silence'' (with Gary Burton)
		"500 Miles High," from ''Forever''
		''Forever'' (with Corea, Clarke & White)

Corea has also won two Latin Grammy Awards.

!Year

|	Award	Album/song
		''The Enchantment'' (with Bela Fleck)
		''Forever'' (with Stanley Clarke and Lenny White)

His 1968 album ''Now He Sings, Now He Sobs'' was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

In 2010, he was named ''doctor honoris causa'' at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

See also[link]

Analog synthesizer

References[link]

External links[link]

Official site

Official discography

Jazzreview.com biography

An Interview with Chick Corea by Bob Rosenbaum, July 1974 (PDF file) "You put these notes together and you come out with that sound, and isn't it beautiful. So what? What does it do to another person? What does it do to your neighborhood?"

Chick Corea talks to Michael J Stewart about his Piano Concerto

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name	Daniel Lanois
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background	solo_singer
birth date	September 19, 1951
birth place	Hull, Quebec, Canada
origin	Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
instrument	Vocals, guitar, pedal steel, drums
genre	Rock, alternative rock, blues, ambient
occupation	Musician, songwriter, producer
years active	1968–present
label	ANTI-, Red Floor
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Daniel Lanois ( ; born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released several albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Brandon Flowers and Ron Sexsmith. Lanois is best known for his work with Brian Eno, the pair collaborating on a number of projects together and producing several platinum albums for U2, including ''The Joshua Tree''. Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four others received nominations.

As producer[link]

Lanois started his production career when he was 17, working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois in the basement of their mother's Ancaster, Ontario home, recording local artists including Simply Saucer. Later Daniel started Grant Avenue Studios in an old house he purchased in Hamilton, Ontario. He worked with a number of local bands, including Martha and the Muffins (for whom his sister Jocelyne played bass), Ray Materick, as well as the Canadian children's singer Raffi.

Lanois worked collaboratively with Brian Eno on some of Eno's own projects, one of which was the theme song for David Lynch's film adaptation of Frank Herbert's ''Dune''. Eno invited him to co-produce U2's album ''The Unforgettable Fire''. Along with Eno, he went on to produce U2's ''The Joshua Tree'', the 1987 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and some of the band's other works including ''Achtung Baby'' and ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'', both of which were nominated for the same award but did not win. Lanois once again collaborated with U2 and Brian Eno on the band's most recent album, ''No Line on the Horizon''. He was involved in the songwriting process as well as mixing and production.

Lanois' early work with U2 led to him being hired to produce albums for other top-selling artists. Bono recommended Lanois to Bob Dylan in the late 1980s; in 1989 Lanois produced Dylan's ''Oh Mercy''. Eight years later Dylan and Lanois worked together on ''Time Out of Mind'' which won another Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997. In his autobiographical ''Chronicles, Vol. 1'', Dylan describes in depth the contentious but rewarding working relationship he developed with Lanois.

Lanois spent most of 1985 producing ''So'', Peter Gabriel's Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling album, released in 1986. ''Wrecking Ball'', his 1995 collaboration with Emmylou Harris, won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 1998, he produced and appeared on Willie Nelson's album ''Teatro.'' Lanois was working on Neil Young's record ''Le Noise'' in June 2010 when he was hospitalized after suffering multiple injuries in a motorcycle crash in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. He has since recovered.

Lanois' production is recognizable and notable for its 'big' and 'live' drum sound, atmospheric guitars and ambient reverb. ''Rolling Stone'' called Lanois the "most important record producer to emerge in the Eighties."

As recording artist [link]

As well as being a producer, Lanois is also a songwriter, musician and recording artist. A number of his songs have been covered by other artists, including Dave Matthews, Jerry Garcia Band, Willie Nelson, Tea Party, Anna Beljin and Emmylou Harris, and his albums have had some success, particularly in Canada. Lanois plays the guitar, pedal steel, and drums. "Belladonna", an instrumental album released in 2005, was nominated for a Grammy. Lanois also provided an instrumental score for ''LOUDquietLOUD'', a documentary about the Pixies. He contributed lead guitar on two songs of Bob Wiseman's 1995 ''Accidentally Acquired Beliefs''.

Lanois premiered a documentary entitled ''Here Is What Is'' at the Toronto Film Festival on September 9, 2007. The film chronicles the recording of his album of the same name, and includes footage of the actual recording. The album ''Here Is What Is'' was released, first by download, then in compact disc, in late 2007 and early 2008. Soon after, Lanois released a three-disc recording called ''Omni''.

In October 2009, Lanois started a project called Black Dub which features Lanois on guitar, Brian Blade on drums, and Daryl Johnson on bass, along with multi-instrumentalist/singer Trixie Whitley. They released a self-titled album in 2010. Daniel Lanois' Black Dub also appeared at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival.

Recognition[link]

right|thumb|200px|Daniel Lanois' star on Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2005 he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

Discography[link]

!Year	!Album
1989
1993	''For the Beauty of Wynona''
1994	''Cool Water''
1996	''Sweet Angel Mine''
	''Lost in Mississippi (soundtrack)''
	''Sling Blade (soundtrack)''
2003
2004
2005
2007	''Here Is What Is''
2008	''The Omni Series (Box Set)''	* ''Steel (Omni Series 1)''	* ''Purple Vista (Omni Series 2)''	* ''Santiago (Omni Series 3)''
2010

Videography[link]

!Year	!Title
1993	''Rocky World''	Documentary about Lanois' music and travels in the early 1990s, available through his website
2007	''Here Is What Is''	Documentary about the creation of the album Here Is What Is

Production credits[link]

''Demo'' – Simply Saucer, 1974 (not released commercially until 1989, on the album ''Cyborgs Revisited'')

''Blues and Sentimental'' – Jackie Washington, 1976 (As "Dan Lanois")

''Hobo's Taunt''- Willie P. Bennett, 1977 (Engineered, as "Dan Lanois", with Bob Lanois)

''More Singable Songs'' – Raffi, 1977 (Recording credit as "Dan Lanois")

''Can't Wait For Summer'' – Ron Neilson, 1978

''Choice Cuts'' – Crackers, 1978 (As "Dan Lanois")

''Millionaires'' Millionaires, 1980 EP (As "Danny Lanois") (included two members of Teenage Head)

''This is the Ice Age'' – Martha and the Muffins, 1981

''Dream Away'' – Bernie LaBarge, 1981

''Mama Quilla, KKK, Angry Young Woman'' – 3-song 12" Album- 1982, Mama Quilla II

''Dance After Curfew'' – Nash the Slash, 1982

''Danseparc'' – Martha and the Muffins, 1982

''Ambient 4/On Land'' – Brian Eno, 1982

''Parachute Club'' – Parachute Club, 1983

''Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks'' – Brian Eno, 1983

''The Pearl'' – Harold Budd and Brian Eno, 1984

''Mystery Walk'' – M + M, 1984

''The Unforgettable Fire'' – U2, 1984

''Secrets and Sins'' – Luba, 1984

''Thursday Afternoon'' – Brian Eno, 1985

''Hybrid'' – Michael Brook, 1985

''Birdy'' – Peter Gabriel, 1985

''Voices'' – Roger Eno, 1985

''Power Spot'' – Jon Hassell, 1986

''So'' – Peter Gabriel, 1986

''The Joshua Tree'' – U2, 1987

''Robbie Robertson'' – Robbie Robertson, 1987

''Acadie'' – Daniel Lanois, 1989

''Oh Mercy'' – Bob Dylan, 1989

''Yellow Moon'' – Neville Brothers, 1989

''Home'' – Hothouse Flowers, 1990

''Achtung Baby'' – U2, 1991

''Flash of the Spirit'' – Jon Hassell and Farafina, 1992

''Us'' – Peter Gabriel, 1992

''The Last of the Mohicans'' – movie soundtrack, 1992

''For the Beauty of Wynona'' – Daniel Lanois, 1993

''Ron Sexsmith'' – Ron Sexsmith, 1994

''Wrecking Ball'' – Emmylou Harris, 1995

''Night to Night'' – Geoffrey Oryema, 1996

''Fever In Fever Out'' – Luscious Jackson, 1996

''Time Out of Mind'' – Bob Dylan, 1997

''Brian Blade Fellowship'' – Brian Blade, 1998

''12 Bar Blues'' – Scott Weiland, 1998

''Teatro'' – Willie Nelson, 1998

''The Million Dollar Hotel'' – movie soundtrack, 2000

''All That You Can't Leave Behind'' – U2, 2000

''La Belle Vista'' - Harold Budd, 2003 (secretly recorded in Lanois Los Angeles living room)

''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'' – U2, 2004 (track "Love and Peace or Else")

''Dusk & Summer'' – Dashboard Confessional, 2006 (also produced by Don Gilmore)

''loudQUIETloud, A film about the pixies'' – movie soundtrack, 2006

''Back Where You Belong'' – Sinéad O'Connor, 2007.

''Snake Road'' – Bob Lanois

''No Line on the Horizon'' – U2, 2009 (plus songwriting credits).

"Mind Games" & "Night Nurse" – Sinéad O'Connor, 2009.

''Mercy'' – Rocco DeLuca and the Burden, 2009.

''Flamingo'' – Brandon Flowers, 2010 (also produced by Stuart Price, Brendan O'Brien)

''Le Noise'' – Neil Young, 2010.

''Battle Born'' – The Killers, 2012.

See also[link]

Canadian Music Hall of Fame

Music of Canada

Citations[link]

References[link]

Entry from the Canadian Encyclopedia

Daniel Lanois interview on Freethescene.com

Jam.canoe.ca

External links[link]

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There are many people in history who are commonly appended with the phrase "''the Great''", or who were called that or an equivalent phrase in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes such as ''e Bozorg'' and ''e azam'' in Persian and Urdu respectively.

In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to be a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King". This title was first used by the conqueror Cyrus II of Persia.

The Persian title was inherited by Alexander III of Macedon (336–323 BC) when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet "Great" eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference (in a comedy by Plautus) assumes that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no earlier evidence that Alexander III of Macedon was called "''the Great''".

The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus the Great (223–187 BC).

Later rulers and commanders began to use the epithet "the Great" as a personal name, like the Roman general Pompey. Others received the surname retrospectively, like the Carthaginian Hanno and the Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. Once the surname gained currency, it was also used as an honorific surname for people without political careers, like the philosopher Albert the Great.

As there are no objective criteria for "greatness", the persistence of later generations in using the designation greatly varies. For example, Louis XIV of France was often referred to as "The Great" in his lifetime but is rarely called such nowadays, while Frederick II of Prussia is still called "The Great". A later Hohenzollern - Wilhelm I - was often called "The Great" in the time of his grandson Wilhelm II, but rarely later.

Rulers[link]

Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah of Iran

Akbar (1542–1605), ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia, mainly India

Alain I of Albret (1440–1522), French aristocrat

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), King of Macedonia, Persia, Greece, Egypt, and all of Mesopotamia

Alexander I of Georgia (1386–1446), King of Georgia

Alfonso III of León (c. 848-910), King of León, Galicia and Asturias

Alfred the Great (848/849-899), King of Wessex

Antiochus III the Great (c. 241–187 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire

Ashoka the Great (c. 304–232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty

Ashot I of Iberia “the Great”(died 826/830), presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia),

Askia Mohammad I (c. 1442–1538), ruler of the Songhai Empire

Bayinnaung (1516-1581), Emperor of the Second Burmese Empire

Bhumibol Adulyadej (born 1927), King of Thailand

Bolesław I Chrobry (967-1025), sometimes called "the Great", first King of Poland

Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the following section)

Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (1736–1809), founder and ruler of the Rattanakosin Kingdom (in what is now Thailand)

Cnut the Great (c. 985 or 995-1035), King of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden

Casimir III the Great (1310–1370), King of Poland

Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia

Chandragupta II (reigned 375-413/415), also known as Vikramaditya, ruler of the Gupta empire in India

Charlemagne (died 814), King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans

Chulalongkorn (1853–1910), King of Siam (now Thailand)

Chlothar II (584-629), King of Neustria and King of the Franks

Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (c. 1097-1157), Margrave of Meissen

Constantine I (c. 272-337), Roman emperor

Cyaxares the Great (c. 625-585 BC), third king of Media

Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC), founder and ruler of the Persian or Achaemenid Empire

Darius the Great (550 – 486 BC), third ruler of the Persian Empire

Devapala (died 850), ruler of the Pala Empire in the Indian subcontinent

Dionysius I, Greek tyrant of Syracuse

Ferdinand I of León and Castile (c. 1015–1065), King of León and Count of Castile

Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia

Genghis Khan (1162?-1227), founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

Gero (c. 900–965), ruler of Marca Geronis, a very large march in Europe

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594–1632), King of Sweden, founder of the Swedish Empire, and noted military leader

Gwanggaeto the Great, King of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea

Hanno the Great, the name of three leaders of Carthage, in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd centuries BC

Henry I, Duke of Burgundy (946–1002)

Henry IV of France (1553–1610), King of France and King of Navarre

Herod the Great (73/74 BC-4 BC), King of Judea

Hugh the Great (898-956), Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris

Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France

Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (1057–1101)

Humphrey I de Bohun (died c. 1123), Anglo-Norman aristocrat

Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Tsar of Russia

John I of Portugal (1358–1433), King of Portugal and the Algarve

John II of Aragon (1398–1479), King of Aragon and, through his wife, King of Navarre

Justinian I (483-565), Byzantine Emperor

Kamehameha I (c. 1758-1819), first King of Hawai'i

Kanishka (died c. 127), ruler of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia and parts of India

Kvirike III of Kakheti (1010–1029), King of Kakheti in eastern Georgia

Kublai Khan (1215–1294), Mongol ruler in the 13th century and Emperor of China; founder of the Yuan Dynasty

Llywelyn the Great (c. 1172–1240), Prince of Gwynedd and de facto ruler of most of Wales

Louis I of Hungary (1326–1382), King of Hungary, Croatia and Poland

Mangrai the Great (1238–1317), Lanna, northern Thailand

Emperor Meiji (1852–1912), Emperor of Japan

Mircea I of Wallachia (1355–1418)

Mithridates II of Parthia (died 88 BC), ruler of the Parthian Empire (in present day Iran)

Mithridates VI of Pontus (134 BC–63 BC), ruler of Pontus and the Bosporan Kingdom

Mstislav I of Kiev (1076–1132), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus

Napoleon I the Great (1769 - 1821), Emperor of the French, King of Italy

Naresuan (1555–1605), King of Ayutthaya

Narai (1633–1688), King of Ayutthaya (in what is now modern Thailand)

Odo the Great (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)

K'inich Janaab' Pakal (603-683), ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque

Parakramabahu I of Polonnaruwa (1123–1186),Tamil King of Sri Lanka

Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia (died 1075), King of Croatia

Peter the Great (1672–1725), Tsar of Russia

Peter III of Aragon (1239–1285), King of Aragon and King of Sicily

Pompey (106 BC-48 BC), military and political leader of the late Roman Republic, rival of Julius Caesar

Radama I (1793–1828), first king of greater Madagascar

Raja Raja Chola I (c. 947-1014), Chola Tamil emperor of the Tamil Nadu.

Rajendra Chola I (reigned 1014–1044), Chola King of Tamil Nadu

Ramesses II (reigned 1279 BC – 1213 BC), considered the greatest pharaoh of Ancient Egypt

Ram Khamhaeng (around 1237 to 1247-1298), King of Sukhothai (in present day Thailand)

Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082–1131), also Count of Provence and various other counties

Rhodri the Great (c. 820–878), King of Gwynedd (in present day Wales)

Roman the Great (after 1160-1205), Grand Prince of Kiev

Saladin (c. 1138-1193), Kurdish Sultan of Egypt and Syria, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and victor over the Crusaders

Samudragupta (c. 335–375), ruler of the Gupta empire in the Indian subcontinent

Sancho III of Navarre (c. 992-1035), King of Kingdom of Navarre

Sargon of Akkad (died c. 2215 BC), ruler of the Akkadian Empire

Sejong the Great (1397–1450), Korean king

Shapur II (309-379), king of the Sassanid Empire, Persia

Simeon I of Bulgaria (864/865-927), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire

Stephen III of Moldavia (1433–1504), Prince of Moldavia (Romania)

Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (c. 1308-1355), King of Serbia and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks

Taksin (1734–1782), King of the Thonburi Kingdom (Thailand)

Tamar (1160-1223), Queen of the Georgian Empire

Timur (1336–1405), better known as Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Dynasty

Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1090–1151), Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and of Brie

Theodoric the Great (454-526), King of the Ostrogoths, regent of the Visigoths and a viceroy of the Byzantine Empire

Theodosius I (347-395), Roman emperor

Tigranes the Great (140-55 BC), Emperor of Armenia

Tiridates III of Armenia (285-339), King of Armenia

Umar (c. 586 to 590–644), second caliph of the Muslim Empire

Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182), King of Denmark

Valentinian I (364-375), Roman Emperor

Vladimir I of Kiev (c. 958-1015), ruler of Kievan Rus

Vytautas (c. 1350-1430), archduke of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy

William I, Count of Burgundy (1020–1087), Count of Burgandy and Mâcon

William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969-1030), also Count of Poitou

Xerxes I (519-465 BC), King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire (Persia)

Yu the Great (c. 2200-2100 BC), legendary ruler in ancient China

Religious figures[link]

Abraham the Great of Kashkar (ca. 492-586), monk and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East

Abraham Kidunaia (died c. 366, hermit, priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia

Albertus Magnus (1193/1206–1280), medieval German philosopher and theologian

Anthony the Great (c. 251–356), early Christian saint of Egypt

Babai the Great (c. 551–628), Assyrian church leader

Basil of Caesarea (330-379), Greek bishop and theologian

Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the previous section)

Euthymius the Great (377-473), abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint

Gertrude the Great (1256-c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint

Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)

Hiyya the Great, 3rd-century rabbi, Palestine

Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)

Pope Leo I (c. 391 or 400-461)

Macarius of Egypt (c. 300-391), Egyptian hermit

Pope Nicholas I (c. 800-867)

Photius I of Constantinople (c. 810–c. 893), Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople

William of Maleval (died 1157), founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites

Other[link]

Beli Mawr, a figure in medieval Welsh literature and genealogies

Matteo Rosso the Great, Roman politician and father of Pope Nicholas III

Prokop the Great, Hussite general in Bohemia

See also[link]

Epithet

List of monarchs by nickname

List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility: G-I

James, son of Zebedee, also known as James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus

Ajax (mythology), called Ajax the Greater

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whose common honorific "Mahatma" means "Great Soul"

Notes[link]

Category:Monarchs Great, List of people known as The Category:Greatest Nationals Category:Epithets

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