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Artist: Chick Corea Label: Grp Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 011105977425 EAN: 0011105977425 ASIN: B0000001TT Release Date: 1994-05-24

Listmania:

1. Favorite Chick Corea Music
2. Chick Corea's album that I recommended
3. Music That Does What New Age Music Wishes It Could Do

Tracks:

1. Lush Life
2. This Nearly Was Mine
3. It Could Happen To You
4. My Ship
5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
6. Monk's Mood
7. Oblivion
8. Pannonica
9. Someone To Watch Over Me
10. Armando's Rhumba
11. Blues For Art
12. Stella By Starlight
13. I Want To Be Happy
14. Smile

Similar Items:

1. Solo Piano: Standards
2. Akoustic Band
3. Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1
4. Alive
5. Change

Customer Reviews:

tech rebut.......2005-04-29

Poor Piano meets Poor Recording Technique.......2002-12-04

There is a common myth that runs, "Yamaha pianos are bright but shallow; Steinway pianos have a deep and powerful 'American' sound". If there is any truth to this saying, it could just as well have originated from the CD in question. In any case, this is the kind of recording that will keep Steinway & Sons sales going strong.

According to the liner notes, a Yamaha S-CF III Concert Grand was used by the artist, but in my experience as a concert tuner this particular instrument hardly represents Yamaha pianos adequately. The upper range sounds metallic and harsh, with noticeable string buzzes emanating from the cast iron plate and brass agraffes; the bass is totally lacking in depth and power, and the overall dynamics are very narrow. There is fortissimo, forte, pianissimo-but never piano. If I were to hazard a guess, it sounds like a typical used or abused music college piano that had been beaten upon for many years.

The recording engineer's method of miking the piano is also objectionable. The microphones have been placed extremely close to the soundboard of the piano, and in such a directional way as to cause all bass notes to come from the left channel and all treble notes from the right channel. Although this is to some extent how it sounds to the piano player, a piano is never experienced as such by a listener any distance away. What this peculiar placement serves up is exactly the opposite of how a piano sounds in a club, a concert hall, or any kind of room at all. As a result, sonic images fly unnervingly from side to side during runs-as if the piano itself were moving in front of the listener.

Overall, one gets the feeling that this CD was hastily recorded by amateurs, and that the final mix was never approved by the artist in the form it has been issued. The result would have been entirely different had the $100,000 plus concert grand been prepared as it should have been, and a competent engineer, who was no stranger to recording pianos, been hired. Considering the worldwide efforts of the Yamaha Corporation to raise their esteem in serious musical circles, they seem to have shot themselves in the foot with this one. It has to go down as one of those unfortunate releases that languish on the shelves and make the occasional listener wonder who was asleep at the wheel.

Simply wonderful.......1998-09-14

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