The First Congregational Church of Madison is once again
hosting a Jazz Legend in concert.
The Music at the Meetinghouse series will welcome 20-time Grammy Award
winner, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and DownBeat Hall of Famer,
Chick Corea in a solo piano performance on Sunday, May 12 at 4pm. Seats are still available! For seating chart and tickets, clickhere.
A keyboard virtuoso and a prolific composer Chick Corea has
had an unparalleled career of creative artistic output that is staggering. He is one of the most significant
jazzmen since the 1960s. Always
looking for new opportunities he has been involved in important music projects
over the years, everything from rock to symphonic, and is one of the few
electric keyboardists to be quite unique with a recognizable style on
synthesizers.
He began playing piano at age four and was influenced in
those early years by his father, a jazz trumpeter, Horace Silver and Bud
Powell. In the early to mid 1960s
he played with the bands of Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Blue Mitchell,
Herbie Mann and Stan Getz. He made
his professional debut with Cab Calloway and his recording debut with Tones for
Joan’s Bones, and in 1968 released the classic Now He Sings, Now He Sobs.
Following a short stint with Sarah Vaughn, Corea joined Miles Davis
where he began playing electric piano, recording albums Filles de
Kilimanjaro, In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew and Miles Davis at the Filmore. With new opportunities
to pursue and the need for self-exploration he left Miles Davis to begin
playing avant-garde acoustic jazz.
To paraphrase Duke Ellington,
Corea is a musician and composer beyond category — his music may fit within the
boundaries of avant garde, fusion, classical, jazz, Latin and more, but he's
really not boxed into genres.
Corea cites Dustin Hoffman
as a model, "because of how good he is at being such different
characters," Corea said in a 1999 interview. "That's how I see myself
as a performer” (NY Times, January2011).
In 2010 Chick Corea joined an elite roster of jazz masters as he was inducted into the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame, an honor that he shares with Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk. The award, one of jazz’s most coveted distinctions, is rarely accorded to living artists. Corea swept four of the top honors in the 2010 DownBeat Readers’ Poll, which also named him Artist of the Year and Electric Keyboardist of the Year. Corea’s Five Peace Band Live, recorded with John McLaughlin, was named Beyond Album of the Year. This is his third year in a row topping the Electric Keyboardist category. When asked by Down Beat about this award, he said “I simply feel honored and encouraged to keep on creating. I admire everyone on that list. Many are mentors and musical heroes of mine. . . I spent my youth and growing years learning from them.”
In 2010 Chick Corea joined an elite roster of jazz masters as he was inducted into the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame, an honor that he shares with Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk. The award, one of jazz’s most coveted distinctions, is rarely accorded to living artists. Corea swept four of the top honors in the 2010 DownBeat Readers’ Poll, which also named him Artist of the Year and Electric Keyboardist of the Year. Corea’s Five Peace Band Live, recorded with John McLaughlin, was named Beyond Album of the Year. This is his third year in a row topping the Electric Keyboardist category. When asked by Down Beat about this award, he said “I simply feel honored and encouraged to keep on creating. I admire everyone on that list. Many are mentors and musical heroes of mine. . . I spent my youth and growing years learning from them.”
To learn
more about Chick Corea visit www.chickcorea.com.
Information
for this article provided by www.chickcoreacom
and Wikipedia.
Contributed by: Donita Aruny
Contributed by: Donita Aruny
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