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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.
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It's hard to pick a favorite, since Corea has performed a number of different styles of jazz, and recordings ranging from solo and duo to sextets). Here are a few of my favorite Corea albums (both as a leader and as a "sideman":
1. Light As A Feather;
2. Crystal Silence (with Gary Burton);
3. Native Sense (with Gary Burton);
4. Akoustic Band: Alive
5. Trio Music: Live In Europe;
6. Amber Skies (one of my favorite jazz recordings that I continue to return to over the years; Corea was the pianist in sextet; released on Palo Alto Records in late 1980's)
7. Like Minds (with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, and Roy Haynes.
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