the music of Chick Corea New York Performances

At Jazz at Lincoln Center, Paquito D’Rivera takes up the repertoire of Chick Corea, the Grammy-winning pianist and composer whose work moved easily between straight-ahead jazz, Latin forms, and concert music. D’Rivera, known in New York since his Irakere years and decades as a bandleader, approaches these pieces with the bite of an alto saxophonist and the precision of a clarinetist. The program frames Corea’s writing as a meeting point for rhythmic traditions and formal craft. In a city where Latin jazz has long shaped the mainstream, the pairing reads as both tribute and lineage.