CONTACT Tim Dunn (714) 556-2122 x4209, TDunn@SCFTA.org Laura Lanzi (714) 556-2122 x4371, LLanzi@SCFTA.org Images: SCFTA.org/media RELEASE DATE: SEGERSTROM CENTER PRESENTS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH CHICK COREA March 25, 2018 3 p.m. Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall Tickets On Sale Now COSTA MESA, CA Innovator, music pioneer, composer and pianist Chick Corea pairs with the incomparable king of American jazz orchestras, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall for a powerhouse concert on March 25, 2018. Since embarking on a solo career in 1966, Corea has been at the forefront of jazz, both as a renowned pianist forging new ground as an innovative electric keyboardist with his acoustic jazz bands Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, and now, the electro/acoustic Vigil. Of one icon about another, Sting said about Corea, He completely devastated the landscape. It was like scorched earth so musical, so powerful, so incredibly virtuosic. And the Chicago Tribune wrote of JLCO, In a way, this evening showed that there's really more than one Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. You could hear the band continually
CHICK COREA & JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER NEWS 2/6 redefining itself through the ethereal tone and translucent textures. Tickets for Chick Corea and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra start at $39 and may be purchased online at SCFTA.org, the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. For inquiries about group ticket savings for 10 or more, call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236. Chick Corea Chick Corea has attained iconic status in music. The keyboardist, composer and bandleader is a DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, as well as the fourth most nominated artist in Grammy Awards history with 63 nods and 22 wins in addition to a number of Latin Grammys. From straight-ahead to avant-garde, bebop to jazz-rock fusion, children s songs to chamber and symphonic works, Chick has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his career since playing with the genre-shattering bands of Miles Davis in the late 60s and early 70s. Yet Chick has never been more productive than in the 21st century, whether playing acoustic piano or electric keyboards, leading multiple bands, performing solo or collaborating with a who s who of music. Underscoring this, he has been named Artist of the Year three times this decade in the DownBeat Readers Poll. Born in 1941 in Massachusetts, Chick remains a tireless creative spirit, continually reinventing himself through his art. As The New York Times has said, he is a luminary, ebullient and eternally youthful. Chick s classic albums as a leader or co-leader include Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (with Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes), Paris Concert (with Circle: Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul) and Return to Forever (with Return to Forever: Joe Farrell, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim), as well as Crystal Silence (with Gary Burton), My Spanish Heart, Remembering Bud Powell, and Further Explorations (with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian). A venturesome collaborator, Chick has teamed with artists from jazz legend Lionel Hampton to newgeneration pianist Stefano Bollani, from banjoist Béla Fleck to vocal superstar Bobby McFerrin. Chick s duo partnerships with Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock have endured decades. Chick s 2014 release ranks as a new classic in his discography: Trilogy, a live triple-disc set with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade. Winner of two Grammys, the album documents this trio interpreting classic Chick compositions (such as Spain ), plus previously unreleased pieces by the pianist ( Piano Sonata: The Moon ), an array of jazz standards and even a Prelude by Alexander Scriabin. All
CHICK COREA & JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER NEWS 3/6 About Jazz noted: This one certainly ranks among his most memorable trios [Corea] has never been more active and with albums as superb as Trilogy clearly at the top of his game. Rare for a jazz musician, Chick received the Richard J. Bogomolny Award from Chamber Music America in 2010, and he broke new ground as a composer with The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet and Chamber Orchestra, released in 2013 by a storied classical label, Deutsche Grammophon. Chick recorded his first album of solo piano in 1971, and he continued his intimate journey with the instrument on Solo Piano Portraits. For the 2013 album The Vigil, Chick put together a new-era electro/acoustic quintet, featuring himself on keyboards and longtime associate Tim Garland on reeds, alongside some hot young players. For a sold-out international tour and live album in 2008, Chick reconvened his pioneering jazz-rock fusion band Return to Forever, which he founded in 1972. Then in 2011 a new version of Return to Forever with Clarke, White, Jean-Luc Ponty and Frank Gambale toured the world to acclaim, yielding the live CD/DVD The Mothership Returns. During his hugely acclaimed 2015 world tour, Chick was reunited with fellow piano legend Herbie Hancock for their first full-scale tour as a duo since 1978. That first duet outing just the pair of worldclass musicians playing acoustic pianos resulted in two massively popular albums still viewed as benchmarks. Corea and Hancock filled some of the greatest venues on the planet. Said Chick about the tour, Herbie is my longtime friend, one of my most important teachers and big musical inspirations. To be able to share the stage each night with him is such a highlight of the creative imagination for me. Corea s latest album, Two, documents his constantly-evolving duet with Béla Fleck, the estimable banjoist. In an interview with NPR s All Things Considered, recorded during their US tour celebrating album s release, Chick said the duet is like a friendly, very fast-moving ping-pong game It opens up whole new ideas for me of how to integrate my phrases. I m always thinking about accompanying. So that s my pleasure in the duet, is to see how I can make the banjo sound good. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy. According to JALC: We believe that Jazz is a metaphor for Democracy - Because Jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal freedom and encourages individual expression; because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that freedom to finding and maintaining
CHICK COREA & JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER NEWS 4/6 common ground with others; and because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to face adversity with persistent optimism. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra personnel includes Music Director and Trumpet: WYNTON MARSALIS; Trumpets: RYAN KISOR, SEAN JONES, MARCUS PRINTUP; Trombones: CHRIS CRENSHAW, VINCENT GARDNER; ELIOT MASON, Reeds: WALTER BLANDING, VICTOR GOINES, SHERMAN IRBY, TED NASH, JOE TEMPERLEY; Piano: DAN NIMMER; Bass: CARLOS HENRIQUEZ; Drums: ALI JACKSON. Comprised of 15 of today s finest jazz soloists and ensemble players, the band has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra for more than 18 years and has toured to over 300 cities in more than 35 countries on 6 continents. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center s programming, the remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs and leads educational events including Jazz for Young People sm family concert series, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, the Jazz for Young People TM Curriculum, educational residencies, workshops and concerts for students and adults - in New York, across the U.S. and around the world. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has collaborated with many of the world s leading symphony orchestras: BBC Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra, Chano Dominguez & The Flamenco Jazz Ensemble, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Esperimentale de Repertorio (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Orchestre Nacional de France, Orquesta El Arranque, Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Russian National Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Yacub Addy and Odadaa! Concerts by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have been broadcast worldwide, including: XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts of seven Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, carried by PBS stations nationwide; Thirteen/WNET s production of Great Performances BET J WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Count Basie, Benny Carter, Billy Childs, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Fletcher Henderson, Woody Herman, Thad Jones, John Lewis, Wynton
CHICK COREA & JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER NEWS 5/6 Marsalis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Ted Nash, Oliver Nelson, Chico O Farrill, Sy Oliver, Billy Strayhorn, Ron Westray, Mary Lou Williams, Gerald Wilson, and many others. Guest conductors have included David Berger, Benny Carter, Paquito D Rivera, Jon Faddis, Jimmy Heath, John Lewis, Chico O Farrill, Robert Sadin, Ray Santos, Loren Schoenberg and Gerald Wilson. Segerstrom Center for the Arts applauds its corporate partners including Kia Motors America, Official Automotive Partner; United Airlines, Official Airline; and Omaha Steaks International, Official Fine Food Retailer. Segerstrom Center for the Arts is an acclaimed arts institution as well as a beautiful multi-disciplinary cultural campus. It is committed to supporting artistic excellence, offering unsurpassed experiences and to engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance and a diverse array of inspiring arts-based education and community engagement programs. Previously called the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Segerstrom Center is Orange County s largest non-profit arts organization. In addition to its six performance venues, Segerstrom Center is also home to the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School. The Center presents a broad range of programming for audiences of all ages, including international ballet and dance, national tours of top Broadway shows, jazz and cabaret, contemporary artists, classical music performed by renowned chamber orchestras and ensembles, family-friendly programming, free performances open to the public from outdoor movie screenings to dancing on the plaza and many other special events. Segerstrom Center is a leader among the nation s performing arts centers for providing education programs designed to inspire young people through the arts. The Center s programs reach hundreds of thousands of students each year in five Southern California counties. Community engagement programs developed through the Center for Dance and Innovation and Center Without Boundaries also connect the Center more comprehensively with Orange County s many diverse communities. The CDI supports flagship artistic programming and a wide range of projects that celebrate innovation, nurture creativity and engage audiences of the future. It is home to the ABT Gillespie School and the School of Dance and Music for Children with Disabilities. The Center Without Boundaries develops partnerships with noncultural organizations to help them in their own efforts to respond the ever-changing needs of the community. Segerstrom Center for the Arts is also proud to serve as the artistic home to three of the region s major performing arts organizations: Pacific Symphony, Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Pacific Chorale, who contribute greatly to the artistic life of the region with annual seasons performed at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. In addition to Segerstrom Center for the Arts as a presenting and producing institution, it also identifies
CHICK COREA & JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER NEWS 6/6 the beautiful 14-acre campus that embraces the Center s own facilities as well as two independently acclaimed organizations: Tony Award -winning South Coast Repertory and a site designated as the future home of the Orange County Museum of Art. JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER WITH CHICK COREA Segerstrom Center for the Arts Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall Sunday - March 25, 2018 at 3 p.m. 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA www.scfta.org Tickets - Start at $39 In person - Online - The Box Office 600 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Open 10 a.m. 6 p.m. daily SCFTA.org Phone - (714) 556-2787 Box Office - Open 10 a.m. 6 p.m. daily Group Sales - (714) 755-0236 Information provided is accurate at the time of printing, but is subject to change. Segerstrom Center for the Arts is a private, non-profit organization. Segerstrom Center for the Arts is a registered trademark. # # #