The 30th Annual UNCW Jazz Festival | March 30th, 2012

30th ANNUAL UNCW JAZZ FESTIVAL: Chick Corea in Concert with Joe Chambers


Chick Corea is reunited in concert with UNCW Distinguished Professor of Jazz Joe Chambers, drums and joined by UNCW Visiting Artist Steve Bailey, bass at the
30th ANNUAL UNCW JAZZ FESTIVAL Friday March 30, 2012 7:30PM

Friday March 30, 2012
7:30 pm

Warwick Center, UNCW campus

$50 general public

$10 UNCW faculty, staff and students (with valid UNCW ID)

Tickets will go on sale Jan. 17, 2012

Tickets and information: 800.732.3643 or www.etix.com


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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

A
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, 16-time Grammy winner,
prolific composer and undisputed keyboard virtuoso, CHICK COREA has
attained living legend status after four decades of unparalleled
creativity and artistic output. Corea is regarded as one of the most
prolific composers and recording artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
A masterful pianist who is one of the top stylists to emerge after Bill
Evans and McCoy Tyner, Corea is equally individual and recognizable on
synthesizer. His compositions include jazz standards such as “Spain, ”
“La Fiesta” and “Windows.”

Corea was born in 1941 and began
studying piano at the age of four. He made his recording debut as a
leader with 1966’s Tones for Joan’s Bones and his 1968 trio set Now He
Sings, Now He Sobs is considered a classic. In 1968, Corea joined Miles
Davis’s band during an important transitional period. He started playing
electric piano and was on albums such as Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a
Silent Way, Bitches Brew and Miles Davis at the Fillmore. When he left
Davis, Corea played avant-garde acoustic jazz in Circle. Toward the end
of 1971, Chick formed his first edition of the groundbreaking Return to
Forever. Fans embraced the group and were able to enter the world of
jazz through such important albums as Where Have I Known You Before, No
Mystery and Romantic Warrior. Later recordings include The Leprechaun,
My Spanish Heart, Musicmagic and RTF Live. In 1985, Corea formed the
fusion group, the Elektric Band, balancing it out with his Akoustic
Trio.

Corea’s impact on jazz continues, as evidenced by The
Enchantment (duets with banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck), The New Crystal
Silence (duets with longstanding collaborator Gary Burton), Returns
(documenting RTF’s 2008 reunion tour) and Five Peace Band Live (with
John McLaughlin, Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett and Vinnie Colaiuta).

Now
He Sings, Now He Sobs was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
In 2010, Corea entered the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame and was named
Artist of the Year in the annual Readers’ Poll.

To learn more about Chick Corea, please visit www.chickcorea.com


UNCW
Visiting Artist STEVE BAILEY, bass, a pioneer of the six-string
fretless bass, has toured and recorded with a wide range of artists,
including Dizzy Gillespie, Jethro Tull, Rippingtons, and Willie Nelson.
Bailey attended both the University of North Texas and the University of
Miami, where he graduated with a BM in Studio Music and Jazz. Twice
named Bass Player magazine’s Bass Player of the Year runner-up, he has
been featured in many international music magazines and journals. Bailey
performs clinics and concerts worldwide and co-leads Bass Extremes with
Victor Wooten. Bailey’s innovative techniques have often been copied,
but never duplicated.

UNCW’s Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished
Professor of Jazz JOE CHAMBERS, drums, is an internationally known jazz
percussionist, composer and educator. He has worked with some of the
most influential figures on the jazz scene in the last several decades
and is also a recognized composer whose works have been performed at
Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. As a sideman and leader, Chambers has
recorded more than 500 albums and CDs. He has performed and recorded
with Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, McCoy
Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Andrew Hill and
many more. Chambers’ credits include Chick Corea’s Tones for Joan’s
Bones, Hubbard’s Breaking Point, Hutcherson’s Components, Shorter’s
Schizophrenia and Etcetera, Hill’s Compulsion, and Tyner’s Tender
Moments, as well as Archie Shepp’s New Thing at Newport, Charles Mingus’
Like a Bird and many others. Chambers’ compositions have been covered
by Hutcherson, Hubbard and M’Boom; he has also recorded on soundtracks
for several Spike Lee films, including Mo’ Better Blues.

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Additional
support for the UNCW Jazz Festival is provided by the UNCW Jazz
Festival Endowment established with a gift from Ann Sherman-Skiba in
memory of her husband Günther Skiba.

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