Following the monumental work of McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans, Chick Corea steered the (jazz) piano in a new direction. His pioneering role on the electric piano with Miles Davis in the late 1960s was one of the defining elements of jazz rock / fusion. After that he played acoustic free improvisations with the group Circle for some time before founding the fusion band Return To Forever. Corea draws
… on bebop, Latin, rock and classical music for his work as a pianist and composer.more