EEDC, Bennett Studios, Englewood Hospital & Medical Center & The Jazz Foundation of America to Raise Funding
By Mel Fabrikant Thursday, August 26, 2010, 10:42 AM EDT
September 28th 8pm - Tickets: $79, $59, $49, $ 39, $29
Young Masters to Join Corea September 28: Bassist Christian McBride and Drummer Brian Blade
bergenPAC is proud to be working with the EEDC, Bennett Studios, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and the Jazz Foundation of America to raise important funding for health programs serving musicians without health insurance. This program began following the work done through the Jazz Foundation and Englewood Hospital to treat Englewood's own Dizzy Guillespie when he was stricken with cancer. Since that time thousands of musicians have been served at the Hospital through this program.
BergenPAC with the EEDC and Bennett Studios will celebrate the jazz heritage of Englewood with a series of concerts including Chick Corea's Trio on September 28th and Pat Metheny on October 8th. October 8th will also feature performances by musicians at local businesses served at Englewood Medical Center with free medical programs, a VIP reception at the Bennett Studios and culminating with Pat Metheny's concert at bergenPAC. A portion of proceeds from both the Chick Corea and Pat Metheny concerts will be given to the Jazz Foundation for this collaborative program with the Englewood Hospital.
Executive Director David Rodriguez stated "the history of this community is founded on the work of internationally known artists - from the Blue Note jazz recordings at the Van Gelder Studios to the the beginnings of Hip Hop at Sugar Hill Records and now at the Bennett Studios - home to numerous Grammy and Emmy winning recordings. The musicians living in this area were the foundation of this movement and many now need our help. These programs serve not just the "stars" but the side musicians and visionaries who are often overlooked."
Your support of this week of jazz will support artists who need it most while celebrating our shared heritage in Bergen County as the birthplace of so many forms of American music.
Sixteen-time Grammy winner Chick Corea will convene an all-star trio for a performance at Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on September 28, 2010
Christian McBride, the most acclaimed bassist of his generation, and drummer extraordinaire Brian Blade, a longtime member of the Grammy-winning Wayne Shorter Quartet, will join Corea for the performance, part of an international tour. Corea is currently on tour with McBride in the Chick Corea Freedom Band, also featuring Kenny Garrett on saxophone and Roy Haynes on drums.
The three initially forged an indelible chemistry as the rhythmic backbone of the Five Peace Band on its tour of Asia and America in 2009 (Blade took over the drum chair from fusion icon Vinnie Colaiuta). During that tour, from night to night, there were rare moments when Chick’s co-leader John McLaughlin and alto sax burner Kenny Garrett laid out, allowing for brief interludes of piano trio magic to emerge. Their instant, easy rapport naturally stimulated the idea of yet another outlet for Corea’s tireless creativity. And a new trio was born.
The Corea / McBride / Blade Trio will commence touring on Sept. 24 in Chapel Hill, NC. Their Stateside tour includes a three-night engagement in New York City at the Highline Ballroom (Sept. 30 – Oct. 2) as well as appearances at Orchestra Hall in Chicago (Oct. 8) and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. (Oct. 9). They follow with a European tour in early November and an Asian tour from the end of November to early December.
Corea says he is excited to be engaging in such an intimate, conversational setting with such enormously gifted musicians as McBride (a ubiquitous sideman on the New York scene for the past 20 years, playing with Sting, Pat Metheny and McCoy Tyner, as well as a brilliant composer and bandleader in his own right) and Blade (one of the elite drummers in jazz today, who has worked with Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Kenny Garrett, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and who has held the drum chair in the Wayne Shorter Quartet for the past 10 years).
“Christian is a masterful musician,” says Chick. “He contributes great rhythmic ideas to any musical situation. But more than that, his communication abilities are out the top and he's a lot of fun to make music with.
“And Brian is a master colorist as well as a master drummer. He certainly is a unique voice, easily recognized after hearing just a few seconds of his touch. When Brian came into the Five Peace Band, replacing Vinnie Colaiuta on the second tour, he took a whole new approach to the songs. In fact, it felt like we were playing a completely different repertoire as Brian found endless new twists to the creation of the rhythm and emotions of the compositions. Like Christian, he constantly contributes creative ideas to the flow of the music, whatever the setting is.”
With two such daring and free-spirited improvisers on board, this new trio tour will be a string of surprises, for both the audiences and the musicians on stage. “I'm not sure what to expect,” says Chick, “but I am sure that it will be a fun musical adventure. I'm looking forward to exploring our communication in more depth. I'm sure that it will be something new and fresh.”
bergenPAC
30 North Van Brunt Street
Englewood, NJ 07631
About Bergen Performing Arts Center: Known as The John Harms Center for 27 years, this cultural hub in Englewood, has been reborn as Bergen Performing Arts Center or bergenPAC. This 1367- seat theater is a landmark, and in its seventh season as bergenPAC it remains one of the finest acoustic halls in the United States. The legendary Tony Bennett and Canadian crooner k.d. lang recorded their 2003 Grammy award-winning CD live on bergenPAC’s own stage through a broadband fiber-optic connection with Bennett Studios. bergenPAC is the home of a media production system that is unparalleled, upholding its reputation as a venue for outstanding music, dance and theater. As a non-profit corporation, bergenPAC has thrived thanks to the aid and generosity of sponsors, donors and patrons.
About Jazz Foundation of America
The Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) is committed to providing financial, medical and legal assistance to those great jazz and blues veterans who have paid their dues by making a lifetime of this music and find themselves in crisis due to illness, age and/or circumstance.
For ticket information Box Office: Phone: (201) 227-1030
Young Masters to Join Corea September 28: Bassist Christian McBride and Drummer Brian Blade
bergenPAC is proud to be working with the EEDC, Bennett Studios, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and the Jazz Foundation of America to raise important funding for health programs serving musicians without health insurance. This program began following the work done through the Jazz Foundation and Englewood Hospital to treat Englewood's own Dizzy Guillespie when he was stricken with cancer. Since that time thousands of musicians have been served at the Hospital through this program.
BergenPAC with the EEDC and Bennett Studios will celebrate the jazz heritage of Englewood with a series of concerts including Chick Corea's Trio on September 28th and Pat Metheny on October 8th. October 8th will also feature performances by musicians at local businesses served at Englewood Medical Center with free medical programs, a VIP reception at the Bennett Studios and culminating with Pat Metheny's concert at bergenPAC. A portion of proceeds from both the Chick Corea and Pat Metheny concerts will be given to the Jazz Foundation for this collaborative program with the Englewood Hospital.
Executive Director David Rodriguez stated "the history of this community is founded on the work of internationally known artists - from the Blue Note jazz recordings at the Van Gelder Studios to the the beginnings of Hip Hop at Sugar Hill Records and now at the Bennett Studios - home to numerous Grammy and Emmy winning recordings. The musicians living in this area were the foundation of this movement and many now need our help. These programs serve not just the "stars" but the side musicians and visionaries who are often overlooked."
Your support of this week of jazz will support artists who need it most while celebrating our shared heritage in Bergen County as the birthplace of so many forms of American music.
Sixteen-time Grammy winner Chick Corea will convene an all-star trio for a performance at Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on September 28, 2010
Christian McBride, the most acclaimed bassist of his generation, and drummer extraordinaire Brian Blade, a longtime member of the Grammy-winning Wayne Shorter Quartet, will join Corea for the performance, part of an international tour. Corea is currently on tour with McBride in the Chick Corea Freedom Band, also featuring Kenny Garrett on saxophone and Roy Haynes on drums.
The three initially forged an indelible chemistry as the rhythmic backbone of the Five Peace Band on its tour of Asia and America in 2009 (Blade took over the drum chair from fusion icon Vinnie Colaiuta). During that tour, from night to night, there were rare moments when Chick’s co-leader John McLaughlin and alto sax burner Kenny Garrett laid out, allowing for brief interludes of piano trio magic to emerge. Their instant, easy rapport naturally stimulated the idea of yet another outlet for Corea’s tireless creativity. And a new trio was born.
The Corea / McBride / Blade Trio will commence touring on Sept. 24 in Chapel Hill, NC. Their Stateside tour includes a three-night engagement in New York City at the Highline Ballroom (Sept. 30 – Oct. 2) as well as appearances at Orchestra Hall in Chicago (Oct. 8) and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. (Oct. 9). They follow with a European tour in early November and an Asian tour from the end of November to early December.
Corea says he is excited to be engaging in such an intimate, conversational setting with such enormously gifted musicians as McBride (a ubiquitous sideman on the New York scene for the past 20 years, playing with Sting, Pat Metheny and McCoy Tyner, as well as a brilliant composer and bandleader in his own right) and Blade (one of the elite drummers in jazz today, who has worked with Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Kenny Garrett, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and who has held the drum chair in the Wayne Shorter Quartet for the past 10 years).
“Christian is a masterful musician,” says Chick. “He contributes great rhythmic ideas to any musical situation. But more than that, his communication abilities are out the top and he's a lot of fun to make music with.
“And Brian is a master colorist as well as a master drummer. He certainly is a unique voice, easily recognized after hearing just a few seconds of his touch. When Brian came into the Five Peace Band, replacing Vinnie Colaiuta on the second tour, he took a whole new approach to the songs. In fact, it felt like we were playing a completely different repertoire as Brian found endless new twists to the creation of the rhythm and emotions of the compositions. Like Christian, he constantly contributes creative ideas to the flow of the music, whatever the setting is.”
With two such daring and free-spirited improvisers on board, this new trio tour will be a string of surprises, for both the audiences and the musicians on stage. “I'm not sure what to expect,” says Chick, “but I am sure that it will be a fun musical adventure. I'm looking forward to exploring our communication in more depth. I'm sure that it will be something new and fresh.”
bergenPAC
30 North Van Brunt Street
Englewood, NJ 07631
About Bergen Performing Arts Center: Known as The John Harms Center for 27 years, this cultural hub in Englewood, has been reborn as Bergen Performing Arts Center or bergenPAC. This 1367- seat theater is a landmark, and in its seventh season as bergenPAC it remains one of the finest acoustic halls in the United States. The legendary Tony Bennett and Canadian crooner k.d. lang recorded their 2003 Grammy award-winning CD live on bergenPAC’s own stage through a broadband fiber-optic connection with Bennett Studios. bergenPAC is the home of a media production system that is unparalleled, upholding its reputation as a venue for outstanding music, dance and theater. As a non-profit corporation, bergenPAC has thrived thanks to the aid and generosity of sponsors, donors and patrons.
About Jazz Foundation of America
The Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) is committed to providing financial, medical and legal assistance to those great jazz and blues veterans who have paid their dues by making a lifetime of this music and find themselves in crisis due to illness, age and/or circumstance.
For ticket information Box Office: Phone: (201) 227-1030
