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 accompanying giants like Miles Davis (on landmark albums including “In a Silent Way” and “Bitches Brew”), Corea helped enrich the lexicon of jazz, merging its harmonic language with the heaviness (and amplification) of rock and funk. But no description, even one this broad, can encompass a vision so limitless.
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New Jersey picks up heads of real assets, fixed income
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New Jersey Division of Investment, which manages investment for the $83.3 billion New Jersey Pension Fund, Trenton, made some recent appointments and promotions.
The personnel changes were announced Jan. 27 at a virtual meeting of the State Investment Council, which formulates policies for the division of investment, a unit of the state Department of the Treasury.
Niraj Agarwal was named head of real assets, effective Jan. 4. Most recently, Mr. Agarwal was a portfolio manager at the $447.9 billion California Public Employees Retirement System, Sacramento, with responsibility for investment activity, strategy and research in the real assets asset class, Treasury Department spokeswoman Jennifer Sciortino said in an email. The position is new.