The Chick Corea Elektric Band

Live legend of jazz music performs with his band in Belgrade on 1st July

Friday 30th of June 2017

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A fantastic jazz quintet leaded by iconic jazz pianist is coming to Belgrade Kombank arena on 1st July. The beginning of music spectacle is scheduled for 21:00. Chick Corea is celebrating 75th birthday and that is the reason for world tour that ends with two-month performances at famous club in New York, Blue Note Jazz Club.


Quintet consists of Chick Corea (piano), Dave Weckl (drums), John Patitucci (bass), Eric Marienthal (saxophone) and Frank Gamble (guitar).


Back in the 80s, they released albums which represented unseen combination of diverse jazz styles, mixture of jazz and hip hop, and later EDM. Their first album, released in 1985, moved jazz beyond classic frames. Combination of jazz and rock, latin and funk genres, created back then, sounds futuristic even today.


Chick Corea is a music personality with iconic status. Talented keyboardist, composer and band leader is an inductee of Jazz Music Hall of Fame and NEA Jazz Master. He is an artist with the most nominations for Grammy Awards - 63 nominations and 22 awards, and a few Latin Grammies point out how great artist he is. The main characteristic of his work is unbelievable combination of classic jazz and other music genres. He tried composing children`s songs and symphonic works. Regardless of age, productivity of this artist is on the same high level as always. He plays the acoustic piano, the electric keyboards, he is a leader of a few bands, he performs solo and collaborates with great music names. For these three decades, he has been nominated three times for "The Artist of the Year" at DownBeat.


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