Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Chick Corea Message-ID: <366@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 08:27:27 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.366 Posted: Fri Jul 5 08:27:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 10:05:30 EDT References: <594@vaxine.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 21 > I attended an excellent concert yesterday by Chick's latest trio > at Jacob's Pillow in Becket, Mass. The players were: Chick > Corea, piano; Miroslav Vitous, bass; and Roy Haynes, drums. This is not a new band, even in its latest incarnation: they recorded an album called TRIO MUSIC, on ECM, that was released in 1982. In fact, I am surprised it took them so long to tour. > Recently, they toured Europe and made > some live concert recordings, which are scheduled to be released > as Chick's next album. This is not really a "new" band. They > have recorded together before (as long ago as '68). > The album was called NOW HE SINGS, NOW HE SOBS, on the Solid State label. In my humble opinion, it is far better than the latest effort, which I find self-conscious and overblown, especially on the Monk pieces. Corea is a fine musician, but his understanding of Monk is lacking. Where is the humor? Where are those sly musical jokes? Where are those weirdly placed intervals and abrupt whole note runs? Marcel Simon