Christian McBride (left), Corea and Jack DeJohnette recording McBride’s Number 2 Express in 1995. (Photo: Jimmy Katz) Chick Corea’s passing reverberated through the jazz world with a multigenerational outpouring for an artist seen as both a creative force and a compassionate soul. Drummer Jack DeJohnette, 78, traces his collaborations with Corea back to mid-1960s jams in the pianist’s house in Queens, New York. Those meetings, DeJohnette said, transcended the boundary between work and play: “You knew you were going to have fun and the level of playing would be the highest possible.” Working through material that would appear on Corea’s second album—