The San Javier International Jazz Festival 2018 awards its Prize to the pianist Chick Corea

He pianist Chick Corea will receive the San Jazz Festival Award Javier 2018 that will be delivered to him after the concert he will offer in the closing of the festival, on July 28, accompanied by its mythical Trio, Akoustic Band with bassist John Pattituci and the drummer Dave Weckl. This will be his second concert at the Festival of Jazz of San Javier where Chick Corea acted in 1999 with the group Origin and vibraphonist Gary Burton.

Chick Korea, one of the greatest pianists of his generation, who has Won 20 Grammy Awards, has a special link to music Spanish and has stated on many occasions that a part of its Heart is Spanish. Precisely, "My Spanish Heart" that gives name one of his classic albums served the Jazz Festival of San Javier to name the tribute that he offered two years ago under the title "Our Spanish Heart" in which he gathered some of the jazz musicians most linked to Chick Corea in a remembered Jazz production concert San Javier with musical direction of bassist Carles Benavent.

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