| Ensemble | JLCO with Wynton Marsalis featuring Chick Corea |
|---|---|
| Date | Sunday, April 8th, 2018 |
| Time | 7:30pm |
| Event Type | Concert |
| Tour | JLCO Tour: Kimmel Center 2018 |
| Project | Corea Plays Monk |
| Venue | Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts |
| Address | 300 S. Broad Street |
| Location | Philadelphia, PA, United States |
| Venue Phone | +1 215-893-1999 |
On a few unforgettable occasions, Chick Corea has joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis — a group he calls “the greatest big band on the planet” — to perform transformative new iterations of his music. Now they’re joining forces to explore the work of another master pianist and composer: Thelonious Monk, the high priest of modern music.
Corea has provided the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with a list of his favorite Monk compositions, and the band’s brilliant arrangers have crafted inspired new versions of these classics. With complex yet always-swinging rhythms, poetic and beautiful harmonic progressions, and iconoclastic, tuneful melodies, Monk’s compositions lend themselves to endless adaptation. The ensemble sections of these new arrangements and Chick Corea’s masterful, original take on Monk’s harmonies will demonstrate why this repertoire is a definitive platform for thoughtful improvisation and high quality jazz.
Personnel
- Chick Corea – piano
- Paul Nedzela – baritone sax, bass clarinet
- Marion Felder – drums
- Dan Nimmer – piano
- Carlos Henriquez – bass
- Kenny Rampton – trumpet
- Ryan Kisor – trumpet
- Marcus Printup – trumpet
- Elliot Mason – trombone
- Chris Crenshaw – trombone
- Vincent Gardner – trombone
- Victor Goines – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
- Ted Nash – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo
- Alexa Tarantino – alto sax
- Walter Blanding – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet
Setlist
Set I:
- Four in One
- Hackensack
- Light Blue
- Think of One
- Bye-Ya
Set II:
- Trinkle Tinkle
- Epistrophy
- Work
- Ask Me Now
- Rhythm-a-ning
Encore:
- Stuffy Turkey