Chick Corea's birthday celebrations at New York's famed Blue Note jazz club have grown in length in direct proportion to their popularity. The first was a three-week career retrospective in 2001, when he turned 60, the second was to celebrate his 70th in 2011 and last year, when he celebrated his 75th, the celebration lasted eight weeks. Each was a kind of mini-jazz festival with Corea at the centre of things. The Musician, spread over 3CDs, documents Corea's 75th birthday celebrations (there is also a Blu-ray documentary, the first full-length film on Corea's life and music, released in conjunction with this set). What is immediately striking is the ease with which Corea moves between the My-Spanish-Heart-inspired Spanish jazz with Jorge Prado and Carles Benavent; hard-hitting fusion with a reconvened Return to Forever with Frank Gambale on guitar; lyrical Bill Evans-flavoured piano trio explorations with Gary Peacock and Brian Blade; the jazz-rock flavoured Five Peace band with John McLaughlin; duets of subtle improvisational interaction with vocalist Bobby McFerrin, vibist Gary Burton (plus string quartet), Herbie Hancock and Marcus Roberts; a Miles tribute featuring Wallace Roney on trumpet and, to top it all off, a propulsive set with his Elektric Band. Throughout, Corea's mastery of each style and his unfailing creative energy is the catalyst that sustains a level of jazz performance that can only be described as exceptional. Perhaps, because he makes slipping between so many different styles of jazz seem so easy, recognition of his genius has been somewhat muted – and that's not even taking into account his command of the classical canon – his performances of piano concerti with leading symphony orchestras across American and around the world, his performance (with Keith Jarrett) of Mozart's ‘Concerto for 2 Pianos’ (check it out on YouTube) his symphonic adaptation of his composition of ‘Spain’ or his own ‘Piano Concerto No. 1’. The Cambridge Dictionary offers this definition of genius: “very great and rare natural ability or skill, especially in a particular area such as science or art.” I think that just about covers it, don't you?