What is your favorite Chick Corea CD/Album?


Chick Corea has been a prolific and creative jazz artist for over thirty years. I throughly enjoyed his newest CD, The Ultimate Adventure, which he described as being a "tone poem." It's reminiscent of some of his earlier work (e.g., The Leprechaun) as it is based on literature - in the case of The Ultimate Adventure, a science fiction story by L. Ron Hubbard. The Leprechaun was my introduction to Corea's work and remains a preferred listen. However, my favorite Corea CD is Beneath the Mask, a more traditional jazz CD by the Electric Band. I particularly like Patitucci's bass playing on the first cut - Beneath the Mask played very loudly.
johnrob
I still find the sound quality and music on Romantic Warrier to be fabulous all these years later. There is something magical about the drum sound on this album, and the overall sonic presentation as well.
Inner Space looked forward to and predicted the new direction jazz piano was headed for, yet was firmly grounded in the instrumentation and modalities of both classical and jazz- brilliant, inspirational and my favorite.
Wow, nobody mentioned "My Spanish Heart" yet. A double album with some very good sound and a wide variety of music to captivate. Perhaps that's why, he coveres a few differen styles while still keeping that Latin/Spanish feel to it.

Enjoy,
Bob
I have to say it's the Return to Forever w/ LaFiesta, etc. It's the first Corea album I bought and I played it to death. May not be the best of the lot, but it takes me back to those early formative jazz years. It has, and always will be one of my all time favorites.
Great thread - I'll have to look for some of these LPs. My favorite is Chick Corea / Friends. Have played it to death over the past 30 years.