Delphi I

1979 studio album by Chick Corea

Delphi I

Studio album by

Chick Corea

Released

1979

Recorded

October 26 & 27, 1978

Studio

The Delphian Foundation, Sheridan, Oregon

Genre

Jazz

Length

44:12

Label

Polydor

Producer

Chick Corea

Chick Corea chronology

Duet (Gary Burton & Chick Corea album)
(1978)

Delphi I
(1979)

CoreaHancock
(1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
DownBeat	^[2]

Delphi I, Solo Piano Improvisations is a studio album recorded by Chick Corea and released in 1979. It is his third solo piano album.

Track listing

All music composed by Chick Corea.

Side one

"Delphi I" – 3:16
"Delphi II" – 0:42
"Delphi III" – 1:09
"Delphi IV" – 2:43
"Delphi V" – 0:54
"Delphi VI" – 1:41
"Delphi VII" – 2:05
"Delphi VIII" – 1:20
"Children's Song #20" – 4:53
"Stride Time I" – 1:59

Side two

"Stride Time II (Soft Stride)" – 5:35
"Stride Time III (Soft Stride)" – 2:52
Stride Time IV (Stride Bop)" – 3:55
Stride Time V (Mr. T)" – 1:05
Stride Time VI (Stride Out)" – 1:18
Stride Time VII (Rhapsody for Mr. T)" – 8:45

Personnel

Chick Corea – piano

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
1979	Billboard Jazz Albums	24^[3]

See also

Delphi II & III (Polydor, 1980)

References

^ Yanow, Scott. "Delphi I: Solo Piano Improvisations - Chick Corea | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
^ Balleras, Jon (March 1980). "Chick Corea: Delphi I Solo Piano Improvisations". DownBeat. Vol. 47, no. 3. p. 34.
^ "Delphi I: Solo Piano Improvisations - Chick Corea | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

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Chick Corea

Chick Corea discography

As
leader

Tones for Joan's Bones (1968)
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968)
Circling In (1975)
Is (1969)
Sundance (1972)
The Song of Singing (1970)
A.R.C. (1971) (with Dave Holland & Barry Altschul)
The Leprechaun (1976)
My Spanish Heart (1976)
The Mad Hatter (1978)
Secret Agent (1978)
Friends (1978)
Tap Step (1980)
Three Quartets (1981)
Trio Music (1982)
Touchstone (1982)
Again and Again (1983)
Summer Night: Live (1987) (with Akoustic Band)
Chick Corea Akoustic Band (1989) (with Akoustic Band)
Alive (1991) (with Akoustic Band)
Seabreeze (1993) (with Gayle Moran & Lionel Hampton)
Time Warp (1995)
Remembering Bud Powell (1996)
Rendezvous in New York (2003)
The Ultimate Adventure (2006)
Super Trio - Live at the One World Theatre, April 3rd, 2005 (2006) (with Steve Gadd & Christian McBride)
Five Peace Band Live (2009) (with John McLaughlin)
Further Explorations (2012)
The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (2012)
The Vigil (2013)
Trilogy (2013) (with Chick Corea Trio)
The Musician: Live at The Blue Note Jazz Café (2016)
Chinese Butterfly (2017) (with Steve Gadd)
Trilogy 2 (2019)(with Chick Corea Trio)
Antidote (2019)

Solo piano
albums

Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971)
Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1972)
Delphi I (1979)
Delphi II & III (1980)
Children's Songs (1984)
Expressions (1994)
Solo Piano: Originals (2000)
Solo Piano: Standards (2000)
Solo Piano – Portraits (2014)
Plays (2020)

Duos

An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978)
CoreaHancock (1979)
Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert (1980)
Voyage (1984) [with Steve Kujala]
Play (1992) (with Bobby McFerrin)
The Enchantment (2007) (with Béla Fleck)
Duet (2008) (with Hiromi Uehara)
Orvieto (2010) (with Stefano Bollani)
Two (2015) [with Béla Fleck]

with
Gary Burton

Crystal Silence (1972)
Duet (1979)
In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1980)
Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982)
Native Sense - The New Duets (1997)
The New Crystal Silence (2008)
Hot House (2012)

Circle

Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (1970)
Circle 2: Gathering (1971)
Paris Concert (1972)
Circling In (1975)
Circulus (1978)

with
Stanley Clarke

Children of Forever (1973)
Journey to Love (1975)
Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (1980)
Up (2014)

with
Miles Davis

Water Babies (1976)
Filles de Kilimanjaro (1969)
In a Silent Way (1969)
Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (2013)
Bitches Brew (1970)
Bitches Brew Live (2011)
Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1977)
Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (1970)
Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (2014)
Jack Johnson (a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson) (1971)
Circle in the Round (1979)
Live-Evil (1971)
On the Corner (1972)
Big Fun (1974)

with
Chick Corea
Elektric Band

The Chick Corea Elektric Band (1986)
Light Years (1987)
Eye of the Beholder (1988)
Inside Out (1990)
Beneath the Mask (1991)
Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993)
Live from Elario's (The First Gig) (1996)
To the Stars (2004)
Live in Tokyo 1987 (2017)

with
Joe Farrell

Joe Farrell Quartet (1970)
Outback (1971)
Skate Board Park (1979)

Sweet Rain (1967)
What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1968)
Captain Marvel (1972)

with
Joe Henderson

Relaxin' at Camarillo (1979)
Mirror Mirror (1980)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (1997)

with
Hubert Laws

The Laws of Jazz (1964)
Flute By-Laws (1966)
Laws' Cause (1968)
Wild Flower (1972)
Family (1980)
Blanchard: New Earth Sonata (1985)

with
Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965)
Monday Night at the Village Gate (1966)
Latin Mann Afro to Bossa to Blues (1965)
Standing Ovation at Newport (1965)

with
Blue Mitchell

The Thing to Do (1964)
Down with It! (1965)
Boss Horn (1967)

with
Origin

Live at the Blue Note (1998)
A Week at The Blue Note (1998)
Change (1999)
corea.concerto: Spain for Sextet & Orchestra / Piano Concerto No. 1 (1999)

with
Return to Forever

Return to Forever (1972)
Light as a Feather (1973)
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973)
Where Have I Known You Before (1974)
No Mystery (1975)
Romantic Warrior (1976)
Musicmagic (1977)
Live (1978)
Returns (2009)
Forever [as Corea, Clarke & White] (2011)
The Mothership Returns (2012)

with
Wayne Shorter

Super Nova (1969)
Moto Grosso Feio (1974)

with
others

Sonny Stitt: Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin (1964)
Cal Tjader: Soul Burst (1966)
Pete La Roca: Turkish Women at the Bath (1967)
Donald Byrd: The Creeper (1981)
Eric Kloss: To Hear Is to See! (1969)
Eric Kloss: Consciousness! (1970)

- Larry Coryell: Spaces (1970)
Sadao Watanabe: Round Trip (1970)
Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970)
Richard Davis: The Philosophy of the Spiritual (1971)
Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup: Going to the Rainbow (1971)
John Surman: Conflagration (1971)
Elvin Jones: Merry-Go-Round (1972)
Airto Moreira: Free (1972)
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Braxton (1973)
Richard Davis: With Understanding (1975)
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family (1977)
Ron Carter: Parade (1979)
Gábor Szabó: Femme Fatale (1979)
Tete Montoliu: Lunch in L.A. (1980)
Chaka Khan et al.: Echoes of an Era (1982)
Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993)
Like Minds (1998) (with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland)
Herbie Hancock: Gershwin's World (1998)
Avishai Cohen: Lyla (2003)
Miroslav Vitouš: Universal Syncopations (2003)
Antonio Sánchez: Migration (2007)
Hans Glawischnig: Panorama (2008)

Compilations

Inner Space (1973)
The Complete "Is" Sessions (2002)
Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner (1976)
Chick Corea Compact Jazz (1987)
Best of Chick Corea (1993)
Selected Recordings (2002)
Very Best of Chick Corea (2004)
Herbie Mann-Chick Corea: The Complete Latin Band Sessions (2007)
Electric Chick (2008)

Soundtracks

Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989)

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