By Josh Rhoten
jrhoten@wyomingnews.com
IF YOU GO
What: Chick Corea and Bela Fleck
When: Jan. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Fort Collins Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, Colo.
Online: www.fcgov.com/lctix
The music Bela Fleck and Chick Corea make together is nearly impossible to describe.
Apart, Fleck is an incredible banjoist who pushes the borders of bluegrass music and Corea is a legendary jazz pianist who palled around with Miles Davis. Together, they are sublime and utterly unique and any sort of label a genre could provide would fall well short of explanation.
The pair first collaborated in 2007, producing the album "The Enchantment" and touring together across the U.S. and world with a hybrid form of jazz and bluegrass music. They have reunited this winter for another tour with stops along the Front Range including Fort Collins, Colo., on Jan. 15.
Through an email interview, Fleck said the show would include material off "The Enchantment" as well as covers and "the odd older tune."
"We start out with those compositions ... but every day we play them differently. Chick is such a spontaneous and inventive player, and he brings out and encourages that part of me," he said. "I think I push him a little too."
Fleck is considered one of the premier banjo players in the world and is known for music fusions with his group The Flecktones. He has won eight Grammy Awards, and he is probably the only musician who can say he has been nominated in the category of jazz as well as bluegrass and pop and country, gospel, composition and world music.
Corea's résumé is equally impressive. After working with Davis on a variety of tours and records including "Bitches Brew," Corea became a part of the groundbreaking band Return to Forever. He has 12 Grammy Awards himself and his career is the stuff of jazz legend.
Fleck actually saw Corea perform with Return to Forever when he was 17 and still remembers that night as a key part of his musical career.
"When I came home from that show, I was a different musician. I have followed him ever since and taken liberally from his music, in terms of felling free to be myself, and also the idea that you can make complexity work for almost any listener if it is delivered with a powerful rhythm," he said.
After touring and recording with Corea, Fleck said he was less and less sure about differences between bluegrass and jazz.
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