Program Notes: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea

PROGRAM (Selections to be announced from the stage.) *The San Diego Symphony Orchestra does not appear on this program.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA

Saturday, March 24 | 8PM

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH CHICK COREA* A Jazz @ The Jacobs Special Concert

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra piano Chick Corea

Performance at the Jacobs Music Center's Copley Symphony Hall

The Jazz @ The Jacobs Series is sponsored by Doctor Bob and Mao Shillman.

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PROGRAM NOTES | JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH CHICK COREA – MARCH 24

ABOUT THE ARTISTS The mission of JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy. With the world-renowned JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA and guest artists spanning genres and generations, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of performance, education and broadcast events each season in its home in New York City (Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The House of Swing”) and around the world, for people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Chairman Robert J. Appel, Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, and Executive Director Greg Scholl.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center's programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe; in concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs; public parks; and with symphony orchestras; ballet troupes; local students; and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, 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 Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus and many others.

Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spends over a third of the year on tour. The big band performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington; Count Basie; Fletcher Henderson; Thelonious Monk; Mary Lou Williams; Billy Strayhorn; Dizzy Gillespie; Benny Goodman; Charles Mingus; Chick Corea; Oliver Nelson; and many others. Guest conductors have included Benny Carter; John Lewis; Jimmy Heath; Chico O'Farrill; Ray Santos; Paquito D’Rivera; Jon Faddis; Robert Sadin; David Berger; Gerald Wilson; and Loren Schoenberg. Jazz at Lincoln Center also regularly premieres works commissioned from a variety of

Series Sponsor Spotlight

DOCTOR BOB AND MAO SHILLMAN

THE SHILLMANS generously support all San Diego Symphony Orchestra jazz programming through their sponsorships of Jazz @ the Jacobs and Thursday Night Jazz.

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composers including Benny Carter; Joe Henderson; Benny Golson; Jimmy Heath; Wayne Shorter; Sam Rivers; Joe Lovano; Chico O'Farrill; Freddie Hubbard; Charles McPherson; Marcus Roberts; Geri Allen; Eric Reed; Wallace Roney; and Christian McBride, as well as from current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw and Carlos Henriquez.

Over the last few years the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed collaborations with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic; the Russian National Orchestra; the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; the Boston, Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras; the Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paolo, Brazil; and others. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed Marsalis’ symphony, Swing Symphony, with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin and with the New York Philharmonic in New York City in 2010 and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles in 2011. Swing Symphony is a Co-Commission by the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Barbican Centre.

Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln Center programs have helped broaden the awareness of its unique efforts in the music.

Concerts by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have aired in the U.S.; England; France; Spain; Germany; the Czech Republic; Portugal; Norway; Brazil; Argentina; Australia; China; Japan; Korea; and the Philippines. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared on several XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and eight Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts carried by PBS stations nationwide, including a program which aired on October 18, 2004 during the grand opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and on September 17, 2005 during Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Concert benefitting the musicians, music industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina, and to provide other general hurricane relief.

In 2015 Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the launch of Blue Engine Records (www.jazz.org/blueengine), a new platform to make its vast archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The label is dedicated to releasing new studio and live recordings as well as archival recordings from past Jazz at Lincoln Center performances, and its first record— Live in Cuba, recorded on a historic 2010 trip to Havana by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis—was released in October 2015. Big Band Holidays from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis arrived in stores soon after. The following release was The Abyssinian Mass, a Wynton Marsalis composition featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Damien Sneed, 70-piece Gospel Choir Chorale Le Chateau, and special guest Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III. The JLCO’s latest two releases are Big Band Holidays, featuring special guest vocalists Cécile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter and Rene Marie, and The Music of John Lewis, featuring pianist Jon Batiste. To date, 14 other recordings featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis have been released and internationally distributed.

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PROGRAM NOTES | JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH CHICK COREA – MARCH 24 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 straightahead 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 new-generation pianist Stefano Bollani, from banjoist Béla Fleck to vocal superstar Bobby McFerrin. Chick’s duo partnerships with Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock have endured for decades.

Chick's album Trilogy from 2014, a live triple-disc set with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, won 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 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.”

His latest release, Chinese Butterfly, is the culmination of 50 years of musical kinship with the legendary drummer Steve Gadd. Chick and Steve went into the studio with Lionel Loueke, Steve Wilson, Carlitos Del Puerto and Luisito Quintero. What they came out with is a nonstop musical rush, full of joy and beauty. n

COMING UP IN MAY AN EVENING WITH AUDRA MCDONALD THURSDAY, MAY 24 | 7:30PM Actress and singer Audra McDonald is one of the brightest lights on today’s Broadway stage. With a record six Tony Awards for acting as well as two Grammys®, an Emmy and a 2015 National Medal of Arts, Ms. McDonald will bring the artistry and experience of a remarkable career for the very first time to the Jacobs Music Center, accompanied by the San Diego Symphony.

T I C K E T S & I N F O R M AT I O N | S A N D I E G O S Y M P H O N Y. O R G

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