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Remembering Chick Corea: From Spain to Sorceress, 12 essential performances from the virtuoso Corea helped enrich the lexicon of jazz, merging its harmonic language with the heaviness (and amplification) of rock and funk. Chick Corea in1976. Polydor Records/Wikimedia Commons Chick Corea, the pioneering keyboardist and bandleader who died last Tuesday at 79, will be forever regarded as a crucial architect of jazz-rock fusion. It’s a fitting one-line tribute. Whether on his own, leading the collective Return to Forever or accompa...

‘Reaching for inspiration back into the music’s deepest origins’ ... Milford Graves. Photograph: PR Image Sun 14 Feb 2021 07.32 EST Last modified on Tue 16 Feb 2021 07.53 EST Of all the freedoms opened up by the free-jazz revolution of the 1960s, none was more radical or, to many, disturbing than the freeing of rhythm from fixed points of bar lines and regular time signatures. The American drummer Milford Graves, who has died aged 79, was in the forefront of that move to create momentum through surges of energy that seemed to reflect the social and political passions driving what became...

Nominated by DJ Cheshire Cat of Wonderland. DJ Cheshire Cat says: The first time I spun this vinyl, I ended up with my arms around the speakers trying to get as close as possible to the amazing, electric sound that was overloading my brain. Inspired by Roger Water’s feeling of alienation from his audience and his childhood losses, the album is dominated by his strangled pain and anger. Well composed with leitmotifs signifying recurring emotional strains, the music is brilliantly performed by Waters, Mason, Wright, and especially Gilmour. 19. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours [1977] Nominated b...