INTERVIEWER: Jazz legend, Chick Corea

will serve as the 2020-21 season's Mary and James G.

Wallach Artist-In-Residence as both pianist and composer.

DEBORAH BORDA: What a multifaceted performer,

musician.

It's very special I think that we

can embrace a musician who is in our world

and in a special world besides.

INTERVIEWER: The Philharmonic has co-commissioned Chick Corea

to compose a trombone concerto, which the orchestra will

premiere with principal trombone, Joseph

Alessi as soloist.

CHICK COREA: The writing that I'm

doing for the trombone concerto is in my mind

expressing a lot of my sentiments

about growing up in New York.

For instance, one of the movements I'm calling a stroll.

What I've tried to do is put in music.

What it would be like taking a stroll from Harlem, all the way

down Broadway, down to Seoul.

JOSEPH ALESSI: What I like about his writing

is his ability to use rhythm and melody together.

There's always a sense of cohesiveness and fun.

INTERVIEWER: The legendary jazz musician

will also perform Chick and Friends, a one night only

concert and curate a post-concert, Kravis Nightcap

concert hosted by Kravis creative partner Nadia Sirota.

NADIA SIROTA: Talk about an artist who has constantly

reinvented himself.

I mean, he's worked with so many people.

He's pushed the medium.

He's pushed music in so many different directions.

INTERVIEWER: Chick Corea will open this season

with Mozart's Piano Concerto Number

24 with his own improvised jazz-inflected cadenzas

conducted by music director Jaap van Zweden.

It will be a reunion of sorts after 30 years.

JAAP VAN ZWEDEN: Many, many years ago, I

was still concertmaster in the Concerto Amsterdam

and Chick Corea came with Friedrich Gulda.

It was an amazing deal at that time.

So years later, here we are.

CHICK COREA: This collaboration with the orchestra

is-- it's like a New York thing to me.

It's like a love of New York City.

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