Abstract
Chick Corea’s florid and adventurous piano introductions burst with rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic invention. Like Erroll Garner, Corea often constructs introductions that stand on their own as complete musical statements and draw from a unique relationship with the piano and its literature. From 1965 to 1971, Corea developed several approaches to introductions that allow for increasing levels of harmonic and formal complexity and greater control of timbre that he continued to use and expand on. All these developments are crucial to Corea’s evolution as an improviser, pianist, and composer. This document will examine four introductions: “This Is New,” recorded in 1965 for the album Tones for Joan’s Bones; “Steps,” recorded in 1968 for the album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs; “Nefertiti,” recorded in 1970 for the album The Song of Singing; and “Trinkle Tinkle” recorded in 1971 for the album Piano Improvisations Vol. 2.
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