Saturday, July 8, 2017

Best jazz gigs to see this week

Best jazz gigs to see this week
Fireplace Dragon; Chick Corea & Béla Fleck; Tommy Halferty’s Lifetime and Joey Alexander
by Cormac Larkin


MONDAY 10

BOTH SIDES NOW
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
National Concert Hall, Dublin, nch.ie

Chick Corea and Béla Fleck
Chick Corea and Béla Fleck 

Piano and banjo is not exactly your average line-up, but in the hands of musicians of the calibre of Chick Corea and Béla Fleck, the instruments are almost incidental. Corea, a bravura technician with cut-glass precision, has been a major figure in jazz since the release of his groundbreaking trio album, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, in 1968. Fleck gave the world of bluegrass and Americana a thorough shake-up with the emergence of his genre-busting Flecktones, and particularly their 1991 hit album Flight of the Cosmic Hippo. Together, these two big stars search out the highways and byways that connect the two sides of American music.

read more at: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/best-jazz-gigs-to-see-this-week-1.3146034

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