Gig Alert: Chick Corea 75th Birthday Celebration

Gig Alerts | Dec 2, 2016

Gig Alert: Chick Corea 75th Birthday Celebration, Music of Return To Forever-Acoustic
Tickets: The entire birthday run is Sold Out, as of this posting. 

Keyboardist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea has had a long and varied career, from his work with Miles Davis to his piano duets with Herbie Hancock to his groundbreaking jazz-fusion group Return To Forever.  Corea is celebrating his 75th birthday with a series of concerts at the Blue Note, featuring a version of that 70s band.  It’s called Return To Forever Acoustic, and runs at the Blue Note through Sunday night.  The set list is likely to include Chick Corea tunes that have become standards, like “Spain.”

 

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