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The title of this week's show is Now We Sob Forever He Sings.

And it's a variation on the title of Chick Korea's second album, which was titled, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs.

And we're listening to the title track in the background.

It was released in 1968, one of two he released that year, and it's an appropriate marker for when the pianist, composer, and bandleader entered

our lives. Because unfortunately, we now have a marker to note his departure from this realm

as he died from a rare and fast-moving cancer on February 9th, according to a statement from his

family last week on Facebook. What we have in between those two milestones is a body of

work that practically defies description in the depth and width of its variety and consistently

high level of musicianship. And for our show this week, we're going to hear remembrances from

just a handful of musicians who were admirers of his work, as well as a couple of collaborators.

Chick-Korea became a known quantity to jazz fans for his work with Miles Davis in the late 1960s.

Drummer Vince Wilburn knew Miles Davis very well, and he starts off our tribute this week.

Hi, this is Vince Wilburn, Jr. I'm the nephew of Miles Davis.

One day, Chick was in town in Los Angeles and he asked me to meet him for lunch.

We sat down and shared our stories about Uncle Miles and

Chick told me about the first concert, the first night he played with Uncle Miles, and it was in

Baltimore. And he said, uh, the first song was agitation. And Tony was playing at a breakneck speeds and

chick was trying to keep up, he said. And in between sets, Chick went to the bar and he was leaning on the bar maybe having a

a sparkling soda and uncle miles walked by and said nice touch and walked away that's my chick story. I'm gonna miss you chick. I love you.

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