The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival this morning announced four headliners for its 15th edition. The 2016 festival will take place across nine days, June 24 to July 2. Singer-songwriter and Nocturnals frontperson Grace Potter will headline the festival’s opening night. Neo-soul icon Erykah Badu will perform Saturday, June 25. Jazz pianist and 22-time Grammy […]
Chick Corea
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Expressing his Spanish heart
Over the last five decades, few musicians have had the continuous impact of Chick Corea. While in Miles Davis’ late 1960s band, he was among the first trailblazers to take on the electric keyboard. Later, he helped define the fusion movement, leading groups like Return to Forever and writing compositions, like “Spain,” that transcended the […]
