In this class students will play, listen to and study the music of Chick Corea, one of the most prolific, influential and multi-directional pianists/composers in Jazz. Special attention will be focused on developing the student’s improvisational originality, melodic and harmonic clarity, sensitivity to dynamics and timbral nuances, propulsive and relaxed sense of time and rhythm, and interplay within the rhythm section. Works including Steps, What Was, Tones for Joan’s Bones, Windows, Litha, Captain Marvel, Like This, and Morning Sprite will be played. A final concert will be presented.