Chick Corea

2009 07 17 Pescara Jazz Festival, Pescara, Teatro Gabriele D'Annunzio

Aud, 86.49 mins, Master Copy, A/Ex

Comments :

1st night of the Pescara Jazz Festival, 1st show.

Chick Corea came on stage and said, he didn't really play solo for a long time.
Then he plays some 11 mins wonderful improvisations of some known and unknown titles.
After that he goes into some heavy T.Monk and Bud Powell material and also B.Evans material.
Then he played from the sheet Domenico Scarlatti and Aleksander Scriabin !!!
After that he plays 5-6 songs from his 'Children's Songs' to finish the evening.
(He will come later back to play more than half the show with the Roy Haynes Trio, but that seed comes later)
My respect again for the italian audience in Pescara !!!!
86 plus minues of solo piano of that level requires extra super taste and patience.
My wife is a Jazz connaiseusse since the mid 70's and she said 'it was really hard to sit still and enjoy this show'.
For me as a CC hardcore fan and a superfan of his children songs, I was pleased all the way !

The sound is excellent as always, just keep in mind, that the piano was soooo low in the PA, that even the crickets around the arena were louder !

I had to boost the volume by incredibly 20 dB, to make it listenable. I know what you think : why didn't you record louder ?
Because the applause around me was still close to the limit ! I didn't want to destroy the recording by a clipping applause.

Enjoy

Boguspomp

Setlist

01 Welcome
02 Improvisations
03 Waltz For Debby
04 Triple Teeple
05 'Round Midnight - Blue Monk
06 Bud Powell Compostion
07 Domenico Scarlatti Piece
08 Prelude by A. Scriabin
09 Prelude by A. Scriabin
10 Children's Song # 1 & 3
11 Children's Song # 9
12 Children's Song # 10
13 Children's Song # 11
14 Encore : Children's Song # 12/ long version