R.I.P. Chick Corea

Award-winning Jazz musician Chick Corea has died at the age of 79.

Corea’s career spanned five decades, and he was the fourth most-nominated artist in the Grammy Awards history with 65 nominations (from which he won 23 times.  Corea died on 9 February from a recently discovered rare form of Cancer, but his music is destined to survive him for a very long time.  Particularly his ground-breaking work with Miles Davis in the ’60’s and with his band ‘Return to Forever.

My picture was taken at a memorable concert at Bonn Kunst!Rasen with Stanley Clarke in 2014.

 

 

2014 Lookback

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My favourite shot of 2014 came pretty late in the year, November in fact, when I Caught Sam Fish and Mike Zito enjoying playing as much as we were enjoying hearing them do it.

There was lots to like about 2014. Some of it familiar, like the Kunst!Rasen shows and Jazztube livening up the Tube-stations. Other events were not so familiar to me, and my favourite new venue of 2014 was Alter Zoll. Steal a Taxi and Blümchenknicker were two of the free acts that had happy and smiling picnickers enjoying the music, the sunshine and the Rhine view.

 

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Stairway to Heaven – Chick Corea & Stanley Clarke

Chicago2014-26I grant you that this evenings show at Bonn’s Kunstrasen was billed as ‘Chick Corea & Stanley Clarke play songs from ‘Return to Forever’ but on a mellow evening like this my ears told me they were in fact playing songs from Heaven.  Legends come, and sadly they also go.  All the more reason to enjoy two of the Jazz greats and the Summer air on the Rhine while we still can.

 

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