Chick Corea - Solo Piano Originals
  • Brasilia
  • Yellow Nimbus
  • Prelude #4 Opus 11
  • Prelude #2 Opus 11
  • Children's Song #6
  • Children's Song #10
  • Armando's Rhumba
  • April Snow
  • The Chase
  • The Falcon
  • Swedish Landscape
  • Spain
  • Children's Song #12
  • Brasilia
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (07:53) [18.05 MB]
  • Yellow Nimbus
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (08:40) [19.84 MB]
  • Prelude #4 Opus 11
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (04:01) [9.2 MB]
  • Prelude #2 Opus 11
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (05:07) [11.71 MB]
  • Children's Song #6
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (05:17) [12.08 MB]
  • Children's Song #10
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (04:26) [10.15 MB]
  • Armando's Rhumba
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:38) [8.31 MB]
  • April Snow
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (02:04) [4.72 MB]
  • The Chase
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (02:11) [4.99 MB]
  • The Falcon
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (01:46) [4.03 MB]
  • Swedish Landscape
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:06) [7.09 MB]
  • Spain
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (04:03) [9.28 MB]
  • Children's Song #12
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (13:08) [30.05 MB]
Biography
For more information, please contact:
Ashley Moyer
Rounder Records
amoyer@rounder.com

Chick Corea has long favored unaccompanied piano performance and has recorded several solo albums, starting with Piano Improvisations (volumes I and II) and continuing through Expressions. Now we have two more: this one, devoted to originals, and a companion disc that explores a range of pop and jazz standards. Both albums were drawn from 1999 concerts recorded in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, and Japan. Originals contains music that is sweet and melodic, and music that is challenging and even a bit jarring. Corea employs his alternately sparkling-then-dusky touch, immaculate articulation, and limitless imagination as he delves into 13 of his own pieces, save two freely interpreted, lyrically stunning Preludes by Alexander Scriabin. Included are a couple of Corea standards: the jaunty "Armando's Rhumba," given a delightfully spirited reading; and the evergreen "Spain," distinguished by strands of enchanting ideas. Then there's the pastoral yet lively "Brasilia," where between paraphrases of the attractive theme, the pianist offers garlands of alternately serene and animated improvisations. The somewhat more intense "Yellow Nimbus" finds thickets of notes and hard-hit chords contrasted by songlike passages. There are four improvised on-the-spot numbers and three "Children's Songs." "No. 6" is playful yet deep, offering dancing chords and zesty lines, while the freely improvised "No. 12" finds Corea generally letting his fertile mind go where it will.
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