Live Review: 2019 Concord Jazz Festival
The temperature was hot, but the jazz was cool at the Concord Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 3. At the Concord Pavilion, an outdoor venue … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Concord Jazz Festival”
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Live Review: 46th Umbria Jazz Festival
When you have made many trips to Perugia, Italy for the Umbria Jazz Festival, you never get a sense of which years are bigger than … Read More “Live Review: 46th Umbria Jazz Festival”
Live Review: 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival
In Switzerland, a snowman effigy called a Böögg is burned and exploded at the stake as a way of marking winter’s end and predicting the fortitude … Read More “Live Review: 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival”
Chick Corea: The Musician (Concord Jazz)
The Musician is a triple-CD epic (and epoch) summary of Chick Corea’s work. And yet it’s not a greatest-hits album, or even a greatest-hits-live album … Read More “Chick Corea: The Musician (Concord Jazz)”
Live Review: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Featuring Chick Corea
Subscribe to JazzTimes magazine and receive reviews, news, profiles and more! Shortly after arriving in New York, in the early 1960s, Chick Corea had the opportunity … Read More “Live Review: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Featuring Chick Corea”
Chick Corea: The Musician (Stretch/Concord)
The Musician is a triple-CD epic (and epoch) summary of Chick Corea’s work. And yet it’s not a greatest-hits album, or even a greatest-hits-live album … Read More “Chick Corea: The Musician (Stretch/Concord)”
Chick Corea & Bela Fleck: Two
Most people probably wouldn’t call a double-disc set of piano and banjo duets a must-hear. When the names of the pianist and banjoist are Corea … Read More “Chick Corea & Bela Fleck: Two”
A Boston Jazz Weekend, Part Two
Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock, Symphony Hall, 4-12-15
The Stanley Clarke Band: Up
On UP, bassist Stanley Clarke recruits collaborators from his recent past (and some not so recent) and plays both acoustic upright-his forte during the second … Read More “The Stanley Clarke Band: Up”
Chick Corea: Portraits
Jelly Roll Morton had his “Finger Breaker,” and so in the same pianistic spirit this two-disc Chick Corea set might as well be subtitled “Genre … Read More “Chick Corea: Portraits”