Synthesizer Heroes: Chick Corea

Posted by Jesper Ranum on 25/08/2016

Chick Corea was an early adapter of synthesizers, and started using them really heavy in the “Return to Forever” period. From the album “Where have I known you before” (1974), Corea used them regularly, and with big success.

The next album -“No Mystery” – further reinforced Corea involvement in synthesizers.

Culminating with Return to Forever’s album “Electric Warrior”. A masterful showcase of the possibilities with electronic keyboards in contemporary jazz and fusion music.

Especially the PolyMoog – on of the first polyphonic synthesizers – enabled Chick Corea to explore the timbres of the synthesizer, while still being able to draw on his huge harmonic vocabulary. The PolyMoog is heavily featured on the “Romantic Warrior” album, along with Chick’s other synths – the Arp Odyssey and the MiniMoog..

Jesper Ranum

Composer, Producer, Logic Pro and Modular synth expert. With a career spanning 4 decades in Electronic Music, Digital Audio and Web Development, I have rather deep experience with all aspects of music, post production and the web. I have done touring, album productions, movie scoring, authoring, documentaries, commercials, direction, mixing, mastering, voiceovers, visuals, site conception and many other different types of audio related projects. But my studio has always been the real centre point for my activities - and still is. It has been continuously developed and refined to an absolute high end, personal electronic sound facility.

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