Chords for Part 2: Chick Corea: Documentary of Legendary Jazz Great, Pianist and Composer, Chick Corea (pt. 2)

The first time we tried [Ab] playing together as a duet was sort of an [G] accident.
_ _ We [F] hadn't planned to do it.
We were at a jazz festival and [A] the promoter was [Em] looking for _ [A] some of the musicians to [F] do
a jam session at the [B] end and it turned out the only two people that had [Bm] said yes was
[Gm] me and Chick.
[Bbm] So we sort of laughed and [C] said, well, okay, we'll play [E] something together.
I said, this [Abm] is something special that I've [B] stumbled into.
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It gives me great pleasure to share with you [Bm] the music of Chick Corea.
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_ [B] Both [Eb] Chick and I had classical music in our experience.
We thought this would be [Dbm] an [Am] opportunity to bring that experience to the [E] present.
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[Ab] _ _ [G] Well the first time that [Bb] we played together I think [Ebm] was at a jazz festival in Berkeley,
California.
In the early _ _ instances when we got together and we worked on some tunes and then when
we walked out on stage, Chick sat with [Ab] the cowboy and played a couple of notes and I
sang what he played.
And [Eb] the next thing you know we were off in [D] _ [Bb] this whole improvisational world.
We [G] hit it off musically.
Right away we understood each other. _
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_ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ Chick is like [Gb] my guy.
He's the one guy, [Em] the musician I would want to play [D] with if there was anybody I could
[Gb] play with and learn.
Mostly [Bm] because I respect his playing and his writing and [E] his whole trip so much.
_ And he's [Bm] one of those guys that I [Ab] get a lot of inspiration from.
So being around him [Bm] and spending some time and getting to sort of soak up what his thing
is [Gb] is just an incredible opportunity [Em] for me.
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_ [G] _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] For the few _ jazz musicians who have [C] sort of stepped into the classical [F] _
world, Chick mostly
and [Ab] _
_ playing a couple of [Cm] Mozart piano concertos in [Fm] which he in his [F] cadenzas _ really took some
risks, took [Eb] some chances.
_ And in the body of the work, you know when the orchestra is playing, he would also [C] _
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on top of the orchestra.
_ Sometimes play the melody, sometimes veer off a little bit.
But he had a ton of a jazz sensibility.
He was very loose and open to possibilities.
_ Lots of times [A] classical musicians, they'll just stay with what's on the page.
Well, Chick has the ability to do both.
[Dm] He can stay on the page and he can veer off the page for a little bit.
He knows [Eb] how to expand bar lines and [E] things.
He knows how to swing.
He knows how [B] to make classical music.
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[A] _ _ _ [D] What would happen if [Gm] _
early Arnold Schoenberg [Dm] met Thelonious Bunk and they [A] somehow meshed
in [Dm] midair somewhere and then [A]
they evaporated [Dm] and then they condensed again on Chick Correa's piece?
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[Gb] Chick's thing is always a [Bm] challenge.
He just takes it to another [Bm] level.
Writing, playing, improvising, Chick's compositions _ are unbelievable. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ He's different from the traditional composer because [Dbm] he's a working jazz man.
He brings that _ _
[D] _ _ [Bb] player's perspective to what he writes, whether it's a jazz work [G] or whether
it's a classical work.
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[N] Chick is one of the most distinctive _ musicians.
That guy, he really has [B] his own thing.
When you hear this guy, [D] _ you know that that's him.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ That's what Chick [Db] sounds like to me.
He sounds [Bb] like someone who instigates.
_ [C] When he plays, it's like, [D] _ _ [E] [Eb] like the little [Gb] _
_ bebop and [Eb] jazz.
It's like the little bee that runs around to all the flowers and says, [Bb] don't forget
the mission, [C] don't forget the mission.
[F] I dare you, I dare you, I [B] dare you.
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_ _ _ _ _ I _ dare you.
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