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CHICK COREA TRILOGY WITH CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE AND BRIAN BLADE Saturday, October 12, 2019, at 7:30pm Tryon Festival Theatre PROGRAM CHICK COREA TRILOGY WITH CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE AND BRIAN BLADE Chick Corea, piano Christian McBride, bass Brian Blade, drums
Chick Corea brings together bass powerhouse Christian McBride and drum master Brian Blade in a trio that earned two GRAMMY Awards for their first outing, 2014’s landmark 3-CD set Trilogy. “Both are master musicians, and together we have an easy rapport,” Corea says of McBride and Blade. “There is a lot of give and take in our music. It’s always a lot of fun.”
The trio’s long-awaited follow-up album, Trilogy 2, arrives this fall on Concord Records. The two-disc set features tracks hand-picked by Corea from throughout the trio’s 2016 world tour, capturing the feel of an electrifying concert program. The material spans a range of inspirations, from American Songbook standards to jazz classics, reaching back into Corea’s own catalog as well as that of some of his most renowned collaborators, including Miles Davis and Joe Henderson.
This performance will be announced from the stage and will include a 20-minute intermission.
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4 PROFILES CHICK COREA (piano) has attained iconic McBride Band, and in 2009, McBride debuted his status in music. The keyboardist, composer, and critically acclaimed Inside Straight quintet. The bandleader is a DownBeat Hall of Famer and Christian McBride Big Band's 2012 release The NEA Jazz Master, as well as the fourth-most Good Feeling won the GRAMMY for Best Large nominated artist in GRAMMY Awards history with Ensemble Jazz Album. As his career entered its third 63 nods and 22 wins, in addition to a number of decade, McBride added the role of mentor, tapping Latin GRAMMYs. From straight-ahead to avant- rising stars pianist Christian Sands and drummer garde, bebop to jazz-rock fusion, children’s Ulysses Owens, Jr. for the Christian McBride songs to chamber and symphonic works, Corea Trio’s GRAMMY-nominated album Out Here. has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his career since playing with the genre- BRIAN BLADE (drums) is the multi-talented shattering bands of Miles Davis in the late 60s young veteran who is already widely respected and early 70s. in the jazz world as drummer/composer/leader of Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band, with Yet, Corea has never been more productive than whom he has released three albums. He is also in the 21st century whether playing acoustic piano known as the drummer for many heroes of or electric keyboards, leading multiple bands, the music world including Daniel Lanois, Joni performing solo, or collaborating with a who’s Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Wayne Shorter, Seal, Bill who of music. Underscoring this, he has been Frisell, and Emmylou Harris. Blade was born in named Artist of the Year three times this decade Shreveport, Louisiana. During his childhood, Blade in the DownBeat Readers Poll. Born in 1941 in listened to gospel music as well as the music of Massachusetts, Corea remains a tireless creative Al Green; Stevie Wonder; Earth, Wind and Fire; spirit, continually reinventing himself through and the Staple Singers. In elementary school, he his art. As The New York Times has said, he is “a was introduced to the music of Maurice Ravel luminary, ebullient and eternally youthful.” and played the recorder and various melodic percussion instruments associated with the Carl CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE (bass) is a four-time Orff pedagogy. Since 2000, Blade has been GRAMMY-winning jazz bassist and is likened part of the Wayne Shorter Quartet with Danilo to a force of nature, fusing the fire and fury of Perez and John Patitucci. His 2009 album Mama a virtuoso with the depth and grounding of a Rosa marked a new endeavor for Blade—a seasoned journeyman. Powered by a relentless lovingly crafted, emotionally affecting song cycle energy and a boundless love of swing, McBride’s that’s deeply rooted in a rich vein of personal path has described a continuous positive arc since experience. “All That Was Yesterday,” “You’ll his arrival on the scene. The Philadelphia native Always Be My Baby,” and “Nature’s Law” show moved to New York in 1989 to pursue classical Blade to be a soulful and expressive vocalist and a studies at The Juilliard School. There he was songwriter capable of rendering evocative stories promptly recruited to the road by saxophonist that resonate with insight and empathy. Bobby Watson. In 2000, he formed the Christian
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