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World-class jazz at WestConn continues
11th annual April jazz festival to feature Chick Corea Trio
DANBURY, CONN. ? Chick Corea is a legend in music ? mastering the genres of jazz, fusion, classical and pop. He?s displayed his piano virtuosity at leading venues throughout the world, and at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 29, Corea will bring his incredible talent to Western Connecticut State University. The Chick Corea Trio will perform at the 11th Annual WestConn/Litchfield Performing Arts Jazz Festival in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university?s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury.
Corea?s discography, which is approaching 100 titles, dates back to 1966. This multiple-Grammy Award winner has won so many critic and reader?s polls that it?s difficult to keep track. Down Beat polls named him Composer of the Year, Pianist of the Year and Jazzman of the Year in 1973. The following year, a Jazz Forum poll named him Jazz Musician of the World. The honors continued: 1975 brought him Keyboardist of the Year, Composer of the Year, Best Jazz Act of the Year, Composer of the World and his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Group. The accolades have ensued at this level for more than 30 years, including his 2006 selection as a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master.
The NEA Jazz Masters Web site states, ?A ground-breaking artist both as a keyboardist (piano, electric piano, synthesizer) and as a composer-arranger, Chick Corea has moved fluidly among jazz, fusion, and classical music throughout a four-decade career, winning national and international honors including 12 Grammy awards. He ranks with Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett as one of the leading piano stylists to emerge after Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and he has composed such notable jazz standards as ?Spain,? ?La Fiesta? and ?Windows.??
Ben Ratliff of the New York Times wrote, ?Mr. Corea expresses his virtuosity much as B.B. King does, or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan did. He luxuriates onstage, as if at a banquet with witty friends. ? typical of the way he approaches music: dexterously, experimentally, with delighted hunger.?
Edward Kane, for jazzreview.com, wrote, ?Chick Corea easily rates as one of the greatest and most prolific artists in jazz history, whether the measuring stick is applied to the number and quality of his recordings or to the number of styles with which he has experimented and mastered during his long career. In his fifth decade at the pinnacle of jazz, Chick Corea?s recent CDs and performances show that age has done nothing to slow him down or dull his creative abilities and impulses.?
Manchester resident Shane Peters, who graduated with a bachelor?s degree in jazz guitar from WestConn and now is studying for his education certification here, couldn?t agree more.
?Chick Corea is one of ? if not the ? greatest jazz pianist on the planet,? Peters said. ?He?s played with everybody, and he?s that rare musician who is comfortable in a lot of different idioms. He?s played in the classical, pop and jazz worlds. To appreciate Chick Corea, you don?t have to be a fan of jazz; you just have to be a fan of music.?
Corea will perform with the Chick Corea Trio, featuring Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira and legendary bassist Eddie Gomez. Both Moreira and Gomez are celebrated jazz artists in their own right. In addition to the incredible learning experience for WestConn?s music students during the festival?s clinics, the community will be able to enjoy three consecutive evening concerts by world-class musicians during the festival.
An All-Star Jam Session featuring the festival?s clinicians ? Conrad Herwig (trombone), Mark Whitfield (guitar), Terrell Stafford (trumpet), Matt Wilson (drums), Don Braden (saxophone), Jeff Hellmer (piano) and Dave Ruffels (bass) ? will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall. Ticket prices will be $10 for adults, and $5 for senior citizens and non-WestConn students who are not participating in the festival. WestConn students will be admitted free with valid ID.
At 7 p.m. on Friday, April 28, in Ives Concert Hall, the WCSU Jazz Orchestra will perform with Grammy Award-winning artist Slide Hampton on trombone. Hampton, named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2005, is renowned for his work both as a performer and an educator. Two outstanding high school big bands selected during the festival also will perform. Tickets will be $10 for adults, and $5 for senior citizens and non-WestConn students who are not participating in the festival. WestConn students will be admitted free with valid ID.
Tickets for the Chick Corea Trio performance on Saturday, April 29, will be $30 for adults, and $20 for senior citizens and non-WestConn students who are not participating in the festival. WestConn students will be admitted free with valid ID.
Professor of Music Dr. Dan Goble, who oversees the jazz festival, is thrilled to bring Corea to Danbury.
?This festival keeps getting bigger and better,? Goble said. ?The students keep working harder and raising the bar. This is now a world-class event ? right here at WestConn. And it?s a group effort ? students, staff, faculty and the administration ? everybody pitches in. This university should be very proud of this event.?
WestConn, Litchfield Performing Arts and Education Connection will present the festival. Chick Corea?s appearance is made possible by a generous grant from the WCSU Student Government Association.
For more information, call (203) 837-8350 or visit http://www.wcsu.edu/music/events.html. To purchase tickets, go to http://www.tickets.com, or call (203) 837-8499.
VISITOR PARKING ADVISORY: Western Connecticut State University offers several convenient, centrally located parking spaces for visitors to the university?s Midtown and Westside campuses in Danbury. Midtown visitor parking is in the lot next to Old Main and in designated spaces next to University Hall. Parking in the university?s White Street garage is restricted to commuter students, faculty and staff from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday; visitors are welcome to park in the garage all other times. Westside visitor parking is on University Boulevard. Visitors who cannot be accommodated in these parking areas are asked to call the University Police Department to make other arrangements. Up-to-date university parking rules and regulations, color-coded campus maps that show parking areas and shuttle bus stops, and shuttle bus schedules are available at http://www.wcsu.edu/parking. Call the University Police Department at (203) 837-9300 for more information about the parking rules and regulations.
source (http://www.wcsu.edu/newsevents/corea.asp)
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This is the Forever Returns projects. I\'m very interested to hear it. Be prepared to hear a lot of stuff off Return to Forever\'s album "Light as A Feather", which wasn\'t rocking, but beautiful nonetheless.
Eddie Gomez is the man and played bass with the 80\'s fusion group Steps Ahead. Airto Moreia is a brilliant Brazillian percussionist who again, made he mainstream debut playing with Miles Davis duing the **** Brew period. He is known as one of the world\'s best percussionists, however I cant picture him playing drums, so this should be interesting. HE also played and recorded a lot with Mickey Hart and may have colloborated live with The Dead. Probably going to need Leith to confrim that for me...
This is great. I was going to see them in NYC anyway, and pay out of my ass. This way I can see them for half the price.. Awesome!!
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right in my area I\'ll prob be there....
Cick Corea trio
Keys- duh
Bass- Eddie Gomez
Drums- Airto Moreira
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Hmm, I think so!!!! Yes, mos def, si etc etc.. It\'s great having my college id!!!! Hehehehehehe..
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SO you gonna go joe?
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not that I am aware of. However, if there is a choice, I vote YES!
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do you have a date with N20?
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hopefully after I get out of the dentist, getting a tooth pulled, so I hope that it isn\'t too bad.
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Spacey are we meeting up today?
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coolio, I\'ve got to run to el dentisto
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Ok I\'ll upload a fusion tune and a jazz tune later on.....
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I\'d like to hear something from Chick.
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Chick Corea is one of the world\'s best jazz pianists. He broke through the music scene playing with Miles Davis on **** Brew. After **** Brew he left Miles to form his own band Return to Forever, which to this day remains the most influential fusion band of the day. Chick also released some amazing accoustic jazz albums, but none of them were as epic as his Return to Forever stuff. This man is a MUSIC GOD and while the show won\'t be electric iit will still be something dreams are made of. IF you guys want I can post some of his songs.....
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very influental jazz pianist, ask Tim....
or Treychica I bet he\'d know better than I would, I just know the name from Tim really
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Who is Chick Corea?
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wow.
very cool. might have to check this out
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Chick Corea will be headlining the WCSU Jazz fest, Free for WesConn Students, $30 for non-students, $20 for non-WCSU students,
more info later.....