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A reimagining of the classic album by R&B legend Chaka Khan and Chick Corea featuring the original drummer and Koerner Hall favourite, Lisa Fischer.
Echoes of an Era was a stunning jazz album released in 1982, featuring Chaka Khan, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White. With timeless standards like “All of Me,” “I Hear Music,” and “I Loves You, Porgy,” this project showcased Chaka’s incredible versatility as a vocalist and earned her a Grammy nomination in the jazz category.
“Lisa Fischer in concert is addictive. Every performance is so enriching, so exciting, so transcendent that you want more.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) The Grammy and Academy Award-winning (for the documentary 50 Feet from Stardom) powerhouse vocalist is at the peak of her powers, blazing her own path, reveling in the chance to dive into every vocal possibility. While she carries traces of the legendary stars with whom she has collaborated over four decades, Ms. Fischer is a constellation in her own right, singing songs with “amazing power, energy, and projection,” as described by Keith Richards after 26 years of musicmaking with Ms. Fischer in the Rolling Stones.
Grammy Award-winning drummer Lenny White is still best known for being part of Chick Corea's Return to Forever in the 1970s. White, who was self-taught on drums, started his career playing regularly with Jackie McLean (1968) and recorded Bitches Brew with Miles Davis in 1969. He has collaborated with some of the greatest names in jazz including Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Gato Barbieri, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke, and Stan Getz, among others.
Jazz tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson first became known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1987 until Blakey's death in 1990. He went on to release 22 recordings as a bandleader and has toured and recorded with jazz legends including Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Haden, Betty Carter, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Stanley Turrentine, and Ben E. King.
During his kaleidoscopic quarter-century as a professional jazz musician, pianist Orrin Evans has become the model of a fiercely independent artist who pushes the envelope in all directions. A deft tune deconstructor, he commands vocabulary across a broad timeline of swinging, blues-infused hardcore jazz and spiritual jazz/avant garde jazz dialects, as well as the Euro-canon, and conveys his stories with the intuitive spontaneity of an ear player.
Grammy Award-winning acoustic and electric bassist John Patitucci has been at the forefront of the jazz world for the last 30+ years. He has performed and/or recorded with jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Kenny Garrett, Victor Feldman, Nancy Wilson, and countless others.
Jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Eddie Henderson received his first informal lesson on the trumpet at the age of 9 from Louis Armstrong. In 1957, Eddie met Miles Davis for the first time, who admired the strikingly beautiful tone and musicality of Henderson’s trumpet playing and encouraged him to pursue a career in music. Eddie has also performed with such notables as Dexter Gordon, Roy Haynes, Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, Benny Golson, Max Roach, and McCoy Tyner.
After the concert, enjoy a beverage and more music at the Postlude Performance in the Leslie and Anna Dan Galleria.
Two of Canada’s greatest pianists perform exquisite repertoire for two pianos by Mozart, Chopin, and Gershwin.
“A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), Marc-André Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivaled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique in the great works of the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Silver medalist and laureate of the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Charles Richard-Hamelin stands out as one of the most important musicians of his generation. In 2014, he also won the second prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition and the third prize at the Seoul International Music Competition in South Korea. “Charles Richard-Hamelin is clearly a musician-pianist: fluent, multi-faceted and tonally seductive.” (BBC Music Magazine)
