Chick Corea - Sardinia - Japan CD

Credits:

Chick Corea

Description:

The late jazz pianist Chick Corea, winner of numerous Grammy and other music awards, has successfully realized his long-cherished dream of combining jazz and classical music in this previously unreleased live recording from 2018! This beautiful and unique piano album features a stunning ensemble performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 and a standard number by George Gershwin with the Orchestra da Camera della Sardegna, an Italian chamber orchestra. Recorded at the Culture Festival in Mogolo, Sardinia, Italy on November 29, 2018. Chick Corea is a jazz pianist of Italian descent, born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1941. He began playing professionally in the early 1960s and made his solo debut in 1968 with "Tones For Joan's Bones. At the same time, he also worked as a backup singer for various artists.In 1971, he formed the fusion band Return To Forever with Stanley Clarke and others. In 1971, he formed a fusion band, Return To Forever, with Stanley Clarke and others, and released "Return To Forever" in 1972, which was a big hit. After the breakup of the band in 1978, he released many albums in the 1980s as a solo artist and with John Patitucci, Dave Weckl, and others in the Chick Corea Electric Band and Acoustic Band. He passed away in 2021 at the age of 79 from cancer.

Tracklisting:

1.Mozart Intro
2.Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor, K.491: I. Allegro
3.Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor, K.491: II. Larghetto
4.Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor, K.491: III. Allegretto
5.Gershwin Intro
6.Someone To Watch Over Me (George & Ira Gershwin)
7.Rhapsody In Blue (George Gershwin)