The 12th Festival EDPCoolJazz began with a duet, played by two of the most extraordinary jazz pianists of our time.
But before they could start the show, the organization, with tapered too much access to seats, we had difficulty in giving vent to long public queues, which resulted in several protests and a half hour delay. The gardens Marques de Pombal Palace are a magnificent place for such an event, and was well spent. However, in addition to the audience access conditions must also be considered the possibility of mounting platforms or stands in the middle of the current audience B or, alternatively, enhancing the sound amplification system, since this comes too attenuated to queue further back, hearing sometimes the same level of the croaking of frogs in the adjacent stream and equivalent tonal richness; who was standing closest to the stage, he could hear better.
That said, what he heard was a wonderful reunion between virtuosos with over 60 years of stage experience, but who maintain a vitality and impressive dexterity. Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea played together with Miles Davis, and in 1978 made a tour in duo, which was recorded in a double album. Two years ago decided to repeat the experience, and in 2015 already scheduled a series of concerts with the same format, which interspersed in the dense artistic calendar each.
In this context, there is necessarily a musical script, with wide use of shared memory – the degree of effective improvisation is often lower than you think. The concert started, in fact, with the improvisation synthesizer keyboard, by Hancock, which was responding Korea groping manner. Convergence became audible only at the end of this introduction. Then Corea gave stylistically exploratory tone of its own, starting with almost atonal sounds, but diverging after and seconded by Hancock, for a more eclectic territory. The third, and exclusive use of acoustic pianos, the duo finally took off, interspersed with thick rhythms and rich harmonic palette populated by fast and precise gestures, exciting
The synthesizer returned later:. Hancock has always been a fan of electronics, but Corea not he got behind in the search for unexpected sounds. There was consistency in the construction of the sound image, but this does not impose the special interest, and the duo eventually return to a varied subject of more classic form, the piano. There was a tribute to Miles Davis, very welcomed by the public.
In line with this memory and also with the predilections of Chick Corea, it was then proposed an ostinato based on the scale Andalusian, on which the protagonists were able to make digital fireworks, combined with enviable wealth of harmonic coloration and rhythmic surprise. At this point the duo energy took a break: Chick Corea, the synthesizer, trudged inconsequential way, recovering only very gradually some animation. End left the party with a secure success: Spain , based on the famous Adagio of Joaquín Rodrigo, where pianists introduced the public as the third sound vector, training him in the corner of a chord of B flat minor, and the repetition of musical phrases (in the audience showed good responsiveness and better ear). It was the first time Corea and Hancock resorted to this model of participation, but the result was excellent.
The concert ended with two encores adventurous, the first of which purely acoustic , revealing a creative energy and technical-artistic rapport truly exceptional, for more artists coming from 74 and 75 years old …
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