Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Occupation
- Piano: Chick Corea
- Bass: Miroslav Vitouš
- Drums: Roy Haynes
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is a jazz album by Chick Corea Trio with bassist Miroslav Vitouš and drummer Roy Haynes, recorded in New York City on the 14th, 19th and 27 March 1968. Recordings were at first the United Artists sub-label Solid State published; From the 1980s she appeared on the label Blue Note Records.
Background to the album
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was after Corea's debut album, Tones for Joan 's Bones ( 1966), the Downbeat 1968 distinguished with 4 ½ of 5 stars, accompanied the second album of the now 26 -year-old pianist at that time Sarah Vaughan and six months later - mediation of Tony Williams - a member of the band by Miles Davis ( Filles de Kilimanjaro ).
He had his trio colleagues in 1967 closer acquaintance - Haynes, as he played with Stan Getz (Sweet Rain), and Vitouš, as he had worked with Donald Byrd ( The Creeper ).
The music of the album
Steps - What Was, the first, nearly 14 -minute title plays with the tempo and timbre is significantly influenced by Claude Debussy. The solo contains allusions to pianists Horace Silver and Bill Evans. Roy Haynes has a chance to an extended drum solo. After the solos the musicians follows a passage that Corea plays since 1972 under the title of Spain, although the melody of which has not yet been formally identified as an issue here.
Matrix is an altered blues with a Monk -like topic about which Corea played a long, 16 wide solo choruses. Corea created with the first recording of matrix [A 1] ( and also with the waltz Windows, but was initially not be published) later often played jazz standards.
The default, How Deep Is the Ocean experienced its radical revision in the title track Now He Beats the Drum, Now he stops. The song begins with a march-like intro and leads into a jazz waltz, in which the complex extended melody is presented. Corea plays the solo on a simple 16 -bar sequence. Vitouš responds with moving and imaginative bass lines before a drum solo shows " enormous versatility " of Haynes.
The later published piece Samba Yantra he had previously recorded already in a session with Donald Byrd; Bossa is a quiet, impressionistic flavored piece that is reminiscent of Bill Evans. Gemini is a free - bass piano improvisation, following a lengthy bass solo by Miroslav Vitouš. Except for the two standards Pannonia by Thelonious Monk, and My One and Only Love by Guy Wood, the other income (such as The Law of Falling and Catching Up or fragment ) were the three March sessions improvisations by the three trio members in the tension between post- Bop and Free Jazz created. This game attitude extended Chick Corea ensued in August 1968 as a keyboardist in the Miles Davis band and put them in 1970 - after the Bitches Brew sessions - with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul Trio Circle continues.
In 1999, the piece Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
Review
Stuart Nicholson According put the album when it appeared, because of its "free - flowing, yet highly disciplined manner of performance " means a standard for contemporary musicians; many pianists would have then studied the recordings note for note. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs have also been found Corea's abilities as a composer.
Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 ½ ( out of 5) stars and noted on the recordings that this 26- year old pianist procured greater attention in the jazz world; Corea Imagine "with a very powerful trio" before. The music of eleven original compositions Corea and the two standards Pannonia and My One and Only Love was " essentially demanding hard bop with an open attitude to free jazz " [A 2]
Cook / Morton reviewed the recorded music - as well as the next trio album The Song of Singing (1970 ) with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul - with four stars; the trio would offer the best " insight into Corea's musical and philosophical trajectory ". Sings / Sobs was " fine, solid jazz with some clever gehandhabtem standard material. "
Ian Carr emphasized that the album Corea's " perfect Can " show, as well as his growing interest in the freer and more European aspects of the contemporary avant-garde. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was " one of the great albums of the 1960s "; his trio with Vitous and Haynes was " an excellent unit; " Corea himself as a musician and composer bursts full of fresh ideas. " All of these compositions were doing a range between semi - free and totally abstract music; " Haynes and Vitous handle this with a great diversity of approach and a atemberaumbenden aplomb ".
Edition history
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (SS 18039 ), that only the five titles Steps - What Was, Matrix, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, Now He Beats the Drums, Now He Stops and The Law of Falling and Catching Up contained, first appeared on the label Solid State, which the producer Sonny Lester had built together with Phil Ramone and Manny Albam as a sublabel of United Artists in 1966. With the purchase of Liberty and Blue Note catalog by United Artists jazz catalog of Solid State and thus the Corea album was henceforth reissued on Blue Note Records. The complete recordings of the three sessions in March 1968 then appeared on the LPs Best Album ( Blue Note BN -LA 395 -H2) and the double LP Circling .. In ( 1975) ( Blue Note BN -LA 472 -H2). The remastered reissue of recordings on Blue Note (1988 ) contains the first five titles of the original edition, followed by eight bonus tracks.
List of titles
- Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Solid State SS 18039 )
- Blue Note CD 7243 5 38265-2 (2002)
- The compositions are, unless otherwise specified, by Chick Corea