Chick Corea: Plays (Concord)
Within the last 18 months, Chick Corea has released albums with an eight-piece Latin ensemble (Antidote with the Spanish Heart Band) and a trio (Trilogy … Read More “Chick Corea: Plays (Concord)”
Reviews
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 east of the city of Concord, California, around 10,000 people gathered for an event that was born in their town and, after a 15-year hiatus, was now celebrating its 50th … 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 others. They are all crazy (“pazzo,” in Italian). The main drag of the hill town, Corso Vannucci, is all but impassable every night because of the crush of revelers. The … Read More “Live Review: 46th Umbria Jazz Festival”
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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 of the upcoming summer. Native American elders have been known to speak to tornadoes in hopes of diverting them. The ancient Greeks spent an inordinate amount of time and energy … Read More “Live Review: 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival”
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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 (though it does include “Light as a Feather,” “Silver Temple” and “Spain”). Taken entirely from Corea’s 2011 70th-birthday residency at the Blue Note in New York, The Musician’s “hits” are … Read More “Chick Corea: The Musician (Concord Jazz)”
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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 to attend “Thelonious Monk University” for three weeks, as he explained to a packed house at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music on Sunday night. Actually, it was a three-week stint at … Read More “Live Review: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Featuring Chick Corea”
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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 (though it does include “Light as a Feather,” “Silver Temple” and “Spain”). Taken entirely from Corea’s 2011 70th-birthday residency at the Blue Note in New York, The Musician’s “hits” are … Read More “Chick Corea: The Musician (Stretch/Concord)”
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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 and Fleck, however, such a set is cause for celebration. Two compiles live recordings made on various tours over a seven-year period following the release of the duo’s studio album … Read More “Chick Corea & Bela Fleck: Two”
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A Boston Jazz Weekend, Part Two
Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock, Symphony Hall, 4-12-15
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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 half of his career-and the electric bass that helped make him a star. UP opens with the decidedly electric “Pop Virgil,” a funk instrumental that blatantly borrows the guitar figure … Read More “The Stanley Clarke Band: Up”
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