ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, two master songwriters, musicians, and band leaders meet in a historic duet of piano and banjo, combining Corea and Fleck’s classic tunes with music from their 2007 Grammy-winning album The Enchantment.

With a mix of jazz and pop standards, crossing a myriad of genres, from jazz, bluegrass, rock, flamenco and gospel, this will be a casual, intimate evening with two legends from different musical worlds.

The original Enchantment recording came about after the two artists had admired each other’s music for several years. Chick had previously recorded three songs on Béla’s 1994 CD, Tales From the Acoustic Planet, as well as on the group’s 1996 live CD, Live Art.

Chick, in turn, had enlisted Fleck to perform with him and Bobby McFerrin on the 2002 Rendezvous in New York project.

Fleck said that The Enchantment was “one of my greatest experiences as a musician … playing with my hero, Chick Corea.” Chick returned the compliment by saying that the album broke new ground for him, with Fleck inspiring him to delve into “unfamiliar territory.”

“I love those kinds of challenges, and we had a blast on The Enchantment, which has a totally new kind of sound,” Chick says. MEDIA SPONSORS:

Thu, April 24Royce Hall

8pm

PERFORMANCE DURATION: Approximately two hours;

One Intermission

PRE-SHOW CONCERTSCA Terrace Series featuring

Sean Stevens and Andrew Davis.FREE - ROYCE TERRACE - 7PM

Supported in part by the Evelyn & Mo Ostin Endowment

for the Performing Arts

Chick Corea and Béla Fleck

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Chick CoreaSince embarking on a solo career in 1966, Chick has been at the forefront of jazz, both as a renowned pianist forging new ground with his acoustic jazz bands and as an innovative electric keyboardist with Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, and now the electro/acoustic Vigil.

His extensive discography boasts numerous albums, beginning with his 1968 classic, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs.

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 20-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering.

Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 61 nominations. He’s also earned three Latin Grammy Awards, the most of any artist in the Best Instrumental Album category.From straight ahead to avant-garde, bebop to fusion, children’s songs to chamber music, along with some far-reaching forays into symphonic works, Chick has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his illustrious career while maintaining a standard of excellence that is awe-inspiring. A tirelessly creative spirit, Chick continues to forge ahead, continually reinventing himself in the process.

Béla FleckJust in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are some who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Béla has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Béla, you know that he just loves to play the banjo, and put it into unique settings.

Any world-class musician born with the names Béla (for Bartok), Anton (for Dvorak) and Leos (for Janacek) would seem destined to play classical music. Already a powerfully creative force in bluegrass, jazz, pop, rock and world beat, Béla at last made the classical connection with Perpetual Motion, his critically acclaimed 2001 Sony Classical recording that went on to win a pair of Grammys, including Best Classical Crossover Album, in the 44th annual Grammy Awards. Collaborating with Fleck on Perpetual Motion was his long time friend and colleague Edgar Meyer, a bassist whose virtuosity defies labels and also an acclaimed composer. Béla and Edgar co-wrote and performed a double concerto for banjo, bass and the Nashville Symphony, which debuted in November 2003. They also co-wrote a triple concerto for banjo, bass and tabla, with world renown tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain entitled The Melody of Rhythm. In 2011, Béla wrote his first stand alone banjo concerto, on commission with the Nashville Symphony. This work, entitled The Impostor, along with his new quintet for banjo and string quartet will be released in August on the Deutche Gramaphone label.

These days he bounces between various intriguing touring situations, such as performing his concerto with symphonies, in a duo with Chick Corea, a trio with Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer, concerts with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet, duos with Abigail Washburn, with African artists such as Oumou Sangare and Toumani Diabate, in a jazz collaboration with The Marcus Roberts Trio, doing bluegrass with his old friends, and rare solo concerts. And Béla Fleck and the Flecktones still perform together, 25 years after the band’s inception.

The recipient of Multiple Grammy Awards going back to 1998, Béla Flecks’ total Grammy count is 15 Grammys won, and 30 nominations. He has been nominated in more different musical categories than anyone in Grammy history.

MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER:

We’re incredibly proud to bring two of the most acclaimed instrumentalists in the world to the Royce Hall stage. That’s not an empty superlative either, you’ll see the word “Grammy” many times in the text that follows. These two artists have a multitude of Grammy nominations and wins between them—a proof point of of their mastery, the great esteem with which they are held throughout the music industry, and the powerful impact they have had on music lovers around the world.

Tonight, though, the watchword is “enchantment.”

It’s a feeling state we hope you’ll find yourself enveloped within.

It’s also the name of the album these two master musicians first recorded together. And, it’s a sense of mutual enchantment that drew Chick Corea to Bela Fleck and vice versa.

A young Bela, just 17 and already a virtuoso on his chosen instrument has said he experienced a seminal moment in his trajectory as an artist with Chick Corea’s Return to Forever.

“I wouldn’t be playing the music I play if it wasn’t for seeing Chick when I was a teenager, “ Fleck says. “I remember thinking ‘the notes they are playing on the piano, those are on my banjo too’ and I had to go find them.”

Find them he did, and as the two musicians’ creative path began to intermingle, so to did their respective mastery in the jazz and bluegrass forms, resulting in a collaboration that has yielded a delightfully unlikely merging of two musical worlds.

In interviews about their original album, each artist talks about the stimulating challenges of blending these two worlds.

One of the greatest pianists in modern music, Corea found himself tackling banjo patterns on the keyboard in a process he has described exciting and experimental.

Tonight, this remarkable duo comes together in live performance to enchant us with what has become an ongoing collaborative experiment.

Welcome and enjoy.

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