Soirée: Live at the Guthrie: Chick Corea and Béla Fleck

Soirée: Live at the Guthrie: Chick Corea and Béla Fleck

Presented by the Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant and Live at the Guthrie
Tickets on sale through Guthrie Box Office, 612-377-2224
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As befitting jazz, where stylistic boundaries slide away in the face of creativity, an innovative but unlikely pairing of two virtuoso instrumentalists—pianist Chick Corea and banjo player Béla Fleck—was born. Fleck, a multiple Grammy award winner, and Corea, an NEA Jazz Master and likewise multiple Grammy winner, have long been admirers of each others’ music, and once the idea for a collaboration came about the synthesis between piano and banjo was effortless. In concert, Corea and Fleck converse with joy and grace as if they’ve been longtime collaborators. They lead and follow as well as spur each other on. They buoy and muse. Unlike many duo projects where each musician takes extended solo excursions, here the pianist and banjoist play as one, joining together on joyrides through the songs.