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Chick Corea: Music With The Fun Factor
by R.J. DeLuke
Chick Corea is a musical icon, having amassed a career that runs through most styles of jazz and has veered off into classical experiments as a well. Freedom of expression is always being at the core. His amazing musical journey—over five decades as a solo artist—has had him rubbing elbows with some of the best musicians in history—Stan Getz to Sarah Vaughan. Herbie Hancock John McLaughlin, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson, Gary Burton and so many more. In the ...
Continue ReadingBlue Note's Tone Poet Series
by Patrick Burnette
With CD-quality streaming a reality for those with butch internet and money to burn, and vanilla streaming the reality for almost everyone else, digital music has never seemed less collectable. Why clutter your Marie Kondo-approved home with jewel boxes when much (though heaven knows not all) of the digital catalogue is available on tap? While compact disc sales crater, however, vinyl rises phoenix-like (a poetic image--please do not expose your records to excessive heat). If you're going to buy a ...
Continue ReadingChick & Steve, Two Pairs of Covers, Wordplay & More
by Marc Cohn
Putting a show together, I sometimes amuse myself by posing programmatic 'problems' that help break my usual routines. To wit: we offer you two pairs of disparate covers of Wayne Shorter and Thelonious Monk tunes during the first hour and play word games with tune titles in the second hour. The 2018 Downbeat Readers' Poll selected the Chick Corea/Steve Gadd collaboration as Album of the Year, and we feature a pair of tracks. And there's more Sonny Rollins ...
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Detroit Jazz Festival 2018
by C. Andrew Hovan
Detroit Jazz Festival Downtown Detroit Detroit, Michigan August 31-September 3, 2018 Over the course of its 39 year history, the largest free jazz festival in North America has seen its shares of up and downs. It once swelled to a five-day event starting on the Thursday evening before Labor Day and there was even a time when names such as Chaka Khan and Nancy Wilson rubbed noses with more mainstream sensibilities. There were even moments ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea Akoustic Band al Parco della Musica Roma
by Mario Calvitti
Chick Corea Akoustic Band Parco della Musica Roma Jazz Festival 14.7.2018 La straordinaria carriera di Chick Corea è una delle più lunghe e variegate di tutto il jazz moderno; appare pertanto naturale che periodicamente il pianista si dedichi a far rivivere alcuni dei suoi vecchi progetti, in compagnia di musicisti che come lui hanno lasciato il segno nella storia del jazz degli ultimi 50 anni. Lo scorso anno lo abbiamo visto insieme al batterista ...
Continue ReadingChick Corea Akoustic Band a Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Chick Corea Akoustic Band MusArt Festival Piazza SS. Annunziata Firenze 23.7.2018 Era il 1989 quando uscì Akoustic Band, primo album del trio di Chick Corea, con gli allora piuttosto giovani John Patitucci al contrabbasso e Dave Weckl alla batteria. Una formazione che interpretava il piano trio in modo tutto sommato tradizionale, donandogli però un brio e una ricchezza di dettagli possibili solo ad artisti di livello superiore quale i tre già allora erano.
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