Solo Piano: Originals

Solo Piano: Originals Artist: Chick Corea
Label: Stretch Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 013431902928
EAN: 0013431902928
ASIN: B00004TQYF


Release Date: 2000-06-06

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Tracks:

  1. Brasilia
  2. Yellow Nimbus
  3. Prelude #4, Opus 11
  4. Prelude #2, Opus 11
  5. Children's Song #6
  6. Children's Song #10
  7. Armando's Rhumba
  8. April Snow
  9. The Chase
  10. The Falcon
  11. Swedish Landscape
  12. Spain
  13. Children's Song #12

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Portrait of the Jazz Pianist as a Recitalist.......2002-01-23

"Brasilia" is charmingly simple; Corea's playing moves with an easy grace, yet there is no "auto-pilot" to those passages which shed virtuosity. On this piece, especially, one notices (as another reviewer has observed) the variety of articulation of which Corea is capable.

"Yellow Nimbus" is a fiery, exhilirating dance. Like Albýniz' "Iberia," it is the sort of music written for the piano, by someone who believes it is really a kind of big, black Spanish guitar.

The Skryabin preludes are a curious matter. Skryabinists may find they don't especially recognize the composer here; and Corea's audience may come away with the impression that Skryabin was really a sort of Chick Corea, only a century ahead of time. That said, these tracks just sound like part of Corea's sound-world (a very different matter to the Duke Ellington `Nutcracker' arrangement, whose chief virtue [for me] is, that it is not so irredeemably bad as the recently-released Klezmer `version' of Tchaikovsky). I do not begrudge the pianist the liberties he takes with these preludes.

The three "Children's Songs" are playful without being child's play.

The four `improvisations after suggestions from the audience' are delightful, and a testimony to the agility, and inventiveness of Corea at the piano; this, true even while there are images (snow, a chase) at whose musical portrayal Corea is hardly a novice, and even where we hear affectionate musical bows to Debussy (in "the Falcon"), for example.

"Armando's Rhumba" and "Spain" are both signatures, and both are treated here with both affection and freshness. If Corea is at all tired of playing these after all these years, he wears the mask well: no tiredness HERE. There are, by turns, bursts of incisive energy, and reflections of the utmost delicacy.

3 out of 5 stars Not that good.......2000-09-27

The value of a record is always something relative. It depends on individual taste and expectations. After listening to older records of Corea playing acoustic piano as "Now she sings now she sobs", and even more resent ones as the one recorded recently with Gary Burton and Pat meteney, this solo record of Corea lacks drama, unexpectedness and the drive I expect from a Jazz musician. With the exeption of "Spain" this record seems boring to me.

5 out of 5 stars beautiful record.......2000-08-01

Is this a five-star record? I don't know. It's definitely close, though. The opening cut, "Brasilia," is my favorite--such a haunting, tender melody. A short version of "Spain" is very nice too, as are the Scriabin-inspired pieces, but the whole thing is fabulous, among Corea's best solo playing since PIANO IMPROVISATIONS of the early '70s.

I wish the public knew more about Corea, what a wonderful talent he is. If I were king, I would cancel the next Grammy Awards show and force those who would have tuned in to watch Corea play for two hours. This might be tyrannical of me, but my subjects would be better off and more enriched than they would by watching Garth Brooks groan oh-so-sensitively under his cowboy hat or by watching Britney Spears gyrate in her dangerous ... way. All this preaching is to say that Corea's music, ORIGINALS included, will be around for a long, long time. The same cannot be said for the great majority of the other stuff out there.

5 out of 5 stars Sublime.......2000-06-30

Corea plays Corea (with some material adapted from Scriabin) and the result is a wonderful assortment of tracks covering a broad range of colours, moods and rhythms. Sometimes it is his inimitable lyrically seamless shower of notes against the assymtrical left hand rhythms of which he is a master, then it is the dissonant avant-gardish textures he weaves (echoing his "circle" days)or sometimes it is the ethereal and wistfully impressionistic pieces like "Yellow Nimbus". The four improptu tracks, inspired by images suggested by a live audience in Sweden, are cliche-free and gives you an idea of the rich musical ideas Corea has at his disposal. Recording (and the sound of his Yamaha) is top-notch too. Highly recommended.

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