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The encounter between jazz and flamenco in ‘The Ultimate Adventure’ by Chick Corea & Touchstone wins two 2007 Grammy Awards (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)

The encounter between jazz and flamenco in ‘The Ultimate Adventure’ by Chick Corea & Touchstone wins two 2007 Grammy Awards. At the forty-ninth edition of the music awards, the American pianist wins the Grammy for ‘Best Instrumental Jazz Album’ for the record ‘The Ultimate Adventure’; and for ‘Best Instrumental Arrangement’ for the song ‘Three Ghouls’, which musicians of the likes of Ornette Coleman, Kenny Garrett and Sonny Rollins were also nominated for. ‘The Ultimate Adventure’ is the result of the intense tour American pianist Chick Corea has been on since 2004 at the head of the new band Touchstone, consisting of flamenco jazz forerunners Jorge Pardo, Carles Benavent and Rubem Dantas (members of the mythical Paco de Lucía Sextet), among other reputed musicians somewhere between jazz and world music.