Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White Trio join together for jazz reunion
Some things were just made for each other: ham and eggs, pizza and beer, television and couches, the Blackberry and the tweet. Some people were made for each other too: Romeo and Juliet, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains at the end of “Casablanca.” Put Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke in that category. The collaboration of composer/ keyboardist Corea and bassist Clarke is one of the richest in all of jazz. It started in February 1972 when Corea — the least predictable pianist in New York’s jazz scene — suddenly decided that he wanted to communicate broadly to a jazz audience. He assembled some of the most remarkable musicians of the time — including Clarke, percussionist Airto Moreira, Moreira’s singer-wife, Flora Purim, and saxophonist Joe Farrell — to make one of the most melodically rich albums in jazz history, “Light as a Feather.” Stan Getz liked the band so much that he got Corea and his friends to record most of its repertoire with him on “Captain Marvel,” one of Getz’s best records.
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