Backstage at the Blue Note: Chick, Eddie Gomez, John Scofield

Let’s just say I asked you to make a list of the ten greatest artists of modern jazz. Who would you place on that list? Well, for me, Chick Corea and John Scofield would most certainly be on that list and at, or near, the very top. Well, when Bill Rooney, Chick’s great manager, invited me to attend one of …

Five Decades of Music In a One-Hour Interview

When I was told that Chick Corea would be given the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award for his many contributions in virtually every style of ensemble music imaginable by Chamber Music America at their 2010 conference here in New York and that one of the various events celebrating Chick would be a one hour interview that they wanted me …