"Spain. "La Fiesta". "500 Miles High". "Armando's Rhumba". "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs". "Senor Mouse". "Tones For Joan's Bones". "Matrix". "Crystal Silence". "Windows." Armando Anthony Chick Corea is dead - as a musician a stylistically confident transformer through so many worlds, as a composer one of the most important and reliable purveyors of jazz standards. What we are left with is great music. And a little extra-musical irritation.
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