Best of Chick Corea

Artist: Chick Corea
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077778928225
EAN: 0077778928225
ASIN: B000005HDZ

Release Date: 1993-06-15

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Tracks:

Straight Up And Down
Tones For Joan's Bones
Matrix
My One And Only Love
Windows
Samba Yantra
Pannonica
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Toy Room
Blues Connotation
Nefertiti

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Customer Reviews:

A Great Compilation.......2001-07-04

I find myself playing this CD over and over again. There is something ineffable about Chick's playing, especially his early work, that has a quality that can't be precisely described -- we call it genius, or beauty, but we can never pin it down. The cuts on this CD are like that. The first 2 are from a Blue Mitchell album, but played melodically, and with beautiful horn accompaniment. The other cuts are Chick in a trio setting with the late great basist Miroslav Vitous. The interplay between Vitous and Chick is a treat to the ears. Chick's version of "My One and Only Love" is astonishing. I have this cut on my all-time piano trio CD collection. This is the kind of CD that you can play forever and never get tired of, because the playing is so fresh. As one other reviewer commented, those who own the "Now He Sings.. CD will find duplication here, but I'd say this is definitely a CD worth getting if you want to listen to a lot of great cuts from Chick's early work. (For those who are looking for Chick's electronic music, I want to emphasize that this CD is from Chick's early work, so you probably don't want to get it).

Las mejores grabaciones acústicas de Chick Corea.......2001-05-14

Lo que me gusta de Chick Corea es que el color de su mýsica es perceptible en cualquier ambiente que el pianista de Boston la ejecute. Ya sea en fusiýn, hardbop, vanguardia, electrýnica, Corea siempre desliza ese toque lýdico que lo caracteriza. Sus primeras grabaciones, incluso esas tan densas como las que grabý con CIRCLE o el A.R.C. de ECM, estýn llenas de una belleza eclýctica y luminosa como un arcoiris, en este disco resume sus mejores grabaciones (desde mi particular punto de vista), aquýllas que grabara a finales de la gloriosa dýcada de los sesenta. Sýlo para gente que desee incorporarse al lado claro de la luna "coreana", porque quienes ya lo conocemos hay que ahorrarse la compra de este disco y conseguir rýpidamente los compactos "Now he sings, now he sobs", "Tones for Joanýs bones", "ARC", el "Song of singing" o el disco "Inner space".

Genius.......2000-02-24

what a grand Talent.this set showcases the early Genius of this Man.his playing has such force at many different styles.he sounds so free and at ease thru out this set.you forget for a minute that this Man has played with the likes of Miles Davis,Herbie Hancock,Billy Cobham among a whose who.Straight up&down starts the Pace for this must have disc.i feel about this disc as i do about The Return To Forever era and that was something special on the ears.

Impressive collection of work by a young Chick.......1999-12-30

Given Chick Corea's association with many record labels over the course of thirty plus years, many `Best of' Corea records have been released, creating some confusion for first-time and casual Corea listeners. This particular compilation covers his direct and indirect association with the Blue Note label during his formative years of the late sixties. While Corea was destined for greater things at this time, this is still an outstanding sample of his early work. On this record, you can actually hear him transform from a very good mainstream post-bop piano player and composer to a unique, virtuoso voice on his instrument and a master songwriter, a status that he enjoys to this day.

The first two tracks are actually taken from a 1966 Blue Mitchell LP, "Boss Horn", but Chick both composed and played prominently on these tunes, backed by a 4-man horn section. The energetic and shifting `Straight Up and Down' is followed by an early (but not the earliest) version of his first classic composition `Tones for Joan's Bones'. The remaining nine tracks are in a trio format, six of which can be found in the `Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' CD. The tracks he recorded with Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes rank among his best trio work, every song is outstanding. Most notable are his snappy interpretation of Monk's `Pannonica' and the originals `Windows' and `Now He Sings...'. His distinctive crisp-as-lettuce, swinging style is already well set by this time. For the last three tunes he played with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, he stretches out toward free jazz, but never quite loses his anchor to bop. Wayne Shorter's `Nefertiti' is barely recognizable, especially at first listen, but you can still find it if you listen closely enough. Shortly after that set, Anthony Braxton comes on board, the avant-garde group `Circle' is born, and Corea makes jazz history several times over the course of the seventies and beyond.

This compilation is not a great choice for those who already own the `Now He Sings...' CD nor is it for the Corea completist. But it will more than do for anyone else.

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