Chucho Valdes, Chick Corea. LIVE - 2019.

good evening welcome to Frederick P Rose Hall the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and are you guys in for a treat tonight this is the first time first time collaboration of two giants believe you me you're gonna walk away with a heart full of love and great music now we are ready here and we're hope you ready please join me in welcoming to the Rose Theater stage the one and only mr. Chucho Valdes [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening everyone thank you for coming I want to present to my hero the great Chick Corea [Applause] Wow that was really nice I was listening from backstage she's your bell des we're old friends but we've never played together before him and he invited me to come down to play with him but I I've been a fan of his for a long time he told me the other night with the same age okay never mind but that was really nice set and but I didn't know I was gonna play solo tonight yeah I thought I was just gonna be a duet so I was trying to figure out what to play I think I'm going to play for you a song I've been working with a little bit with my trio I'm gonna try it without the bass and drums and this is Duke Ellington's beautiful in a sentimental mood [Applause] [Music] you [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah duke ellington you know some of some of my favorite heroes like Duke were had a combination of things that they do which is what I have always tried to do I never tried to name it but recently I've had to try to for some other reasons there's another subject but these great people were were composers first and then pianists that's what I think so this is another this is a piece I'd like to play with another composer pianist favorite of mine bill Evans and this is this this is one of Phil's great melodies walls for Debbie [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you very much for Duke Ellington and Bill Evans I came here for duet let's bring choo choo back [Applause] okay we're gonna be begin with you know I him a couple of things and he sent me a couple of things PDF is the way these days and I said sure sure you put the set together so he we're gonna we're gonna start with one or two choose nice tunes this is called Mambo Mambo influence see Otto influence yada Mambo influence yada [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you you [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] one of the PDFs I sent choo-choo-choo was was kind and diligent and up to - to learn the song which is not totally easy song to learn and but the song is called remembrance and it's something that I wrote based on an old Spanish song form that kind of lingered in my mind and I just put a thing to it and I knew that she would know what to do with it so this is remembrance [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] there was that was teachers sound called conga local conga loca loca Kong goloka is a crazy combo what now oh okay oh okay and another another amazing thing that Chucho did was Lin this other song of mine which we're gonna play now it's called a Spanish song and that's that's what happens when you write a song and and and you don't want to put it away without putting a title on it otherwise you won't remember what you did the next day so there's the first title that came to mind so this is a Spanish song and and Chucho thank you for learning myself you [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 97min 46sec (5866 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 17 2019