Amazing Chick Corea tribute: Celebrating Chick Corea Final Spain

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2022 ROSE THEATER CELEBRATING CHICK COREA The late, legendary pianist and composer Chick Corea found endless delight in creating and uncovering -- and discovering -- new musical wonders. Corea’s restless spirit guided a career that spanned nearly six decades, earned 24 Grammy Awards and 60 nominations, and blazed new compositional trails across the terrain of jazz music and beyond; contributing hundreds of songs -- many of which are considered standards -- to jazz, jazz fusion, avant-garde, Latin jazz, children's music, and classical progressive rock. This evening—under the musical direction of his longtime bandmate, bassist John Patitucci-The Jazz community paid tribute to the iconic artist with guest performances by an A-list of Corea’s past collaborators and band members from both his acoustic and electric explorations. The all-star lineup paying tribute to Corea included: Music Director John Patitucci; singer and activist Rubén Blades; flutists Hubert Laws