Commissioned by Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2021 for a lockdown tribute to Chick Corea, Gary presents a fresh new take on Chick's much celebrated song "500 Miles High", for piano, synths, guitar and drums.

Commissioned by Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2021 for a lockdown tribute to Chick Corea, Gary invites his friend and colleague, the wonderful Fiete Felsch, to join him in his arrangement of Chick's beautiful 'Windows' piece.

“I am pleased to officially launch here the full-length version of “Lockdown Throwdown” - the piece dear Chick Corea and myself co-created during lockdown 2020. We had intended to launch this piece together earlier this month and had hoped to collaborate on further projects in the months to come, thanks to all the fun that we’d derived from the process and out of our mutual passion for musical spontaneity. Sadly this was not to be. But this little standalone musical meeting between us will remain in my heart as an enduring tribute to a very dear friend, a legendary inspiration to me and to so many others, and to his boundless, beautiful and relentless love and pursuit of the sound of surprise.”
Gary - February 2021

*For the wonderfully uplifting episode of "Conversations With" between Gary and Chick, please click here.*

The composition “Sulley” (Gary Husband) as performed for the Drumhead Live Festival 2020. Gary sequenced his keyboards then tracked and filmed the drum performance. Livestreamed on 21 November 2020. 

“Don’t Say It” (Gary Husband) performed by Gary for the online Mumbai Piano Day Celebrations 2020, for Roland Keyboards. Livestreamed 12 September 2020.