The Five Peace Band at the House Of Blues in Dallas

.March 31, 2009, Dallas Texas.
Featuring some of the greatest musicians on the planet: Chick Corea on piano, John Mclaughlin on guitar, Kenny Garrett on sax, Christian McBride on bass and Vinnie Colaiuta on drums in Europe while Brian Blade takes over the drum chair in Asia and on select dates in U.S. the Five Peace Band began playing a world tour in 2008 continuing into 2009.
How special it was for me to be able to go see and hear this jazz supergroup. It was an eclectic night of highly creative music, and what more appropriate timing, two nights after a night of underground progressive jazz at Sol Studio Art. I was finally getting a chance to hear these giants, I now clearly see the influence Chick Corea plays on our house musician and piano player Sam Ezzeldin.
Here I am in a room filled with fans and aspiring jazz musicians all looking up to these giants in a humble and respectfull way. Chick Corea and his Five Peace Band leave another legacy, another inprint, a testimony to both young and old listeners, a call to embrace the sounds that come from within. I am humbled by the experience and gratefull to have been there in the presence of so much talent. I was very lucky to have had the chance to shake hands with Chick Corea and Kenny Garrett which so kindly posed with the few fans that stuck around in the back door waiting for them to come out. But the night was going to surprise us and we were asked to step in and into the VIP room with Christian Mc Bride, it seems he felt he could trust my daughter and I, he needed someone to take some pictures of him with a friend in the vip room. Well the gods have been smiling at us and in we go, following McBride into this hall and into the room. As we enter John Mclaughlin is standing to one corner talking to an old friend it seems, Christian presents us to his friend who gestures with approval, Ximena starts to connect with them in a professional manner and starts the photoshoot. I step back and turn my digital camera to the right, where John with his back to me converses with an Indian man, a musician. I keep my camera on recording the gestures not really paying attention to the conversation yet aware of what they were saying. The musician spoke of John's influence on his music and how John was the main reason to his return to his indian roots, musically speaking. Then, with an utmost reverance he bends down to touch John's shoe as a symbol of respect. John lifts him up and embraces his head in a gentle way telling him not to do that, they seem to understand one another. John realizes that I am recording these moments and turns to the camera asking me if I have recorded it, I confirm, kindly he asks me to stop, he says "no more, i am only telling him a story."
I turn the camera to Christian Mc Bride.