Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is amidst the greatest pianoforte trio albums always released. Recorded inward 1968, the tape firmly established Chick every bit a pianist together with composer amongst a unique vision, i that floated gratis of traditional genre distinctions together with conventions, into novel together with thrilling territory. With veteran drummer Roy Haynes together with bright bassist Miroslav Vitous, Chick creates a novel linguistic communication of his own, straightaway recognizable from the first, classic cymbal flourish together with pianoforte run of “Matrix.” The trio is locked in, totally attuned to each other, together with operating at a tremendous level. This is jazz of the highest order.
Corea had been paying his dues for over one-half a decade, developing peachy affinity for Afro-Cuban Jazz piece working amongst Mongo Santamaria, together with Sonny Stitt amidst others, composed, arranged together with inward the procedure greatly incrementing the dimension of albums such every bit Blue Mitchell’s “Boss Horn”, seen his compositions recorded past times the likes of Hubert Laws, Donald Byrd or past times his for a piece boss Stan Getz together with fifty-fifty released his 1st album every bit a leader – which was given the championship of i of those songs from the Mitchell’ album-, an album where he used a band format to piece of work on his songs;
he’d been enchanting all those who contacted his music, amongst his talent, vitality, virtuosity together with a novel perspective inward composing together with making the pieces unfold; this perspective had points inward mutual amongst Coltrane’s opened upwardly 4tet explorations together with inward particular amongst McCoy Tyner’s style, simply Corea’s vision eventually included another stylistic appendices; this album displays several ways of reformulating those concepts piece working on a platform he hadn’t tested yet together with at the halt of the solar daytime was the get of a long lasting together with productive trio friendship.
If Corea is adventurous his partners never permit him downwardly either: vi years his junior, Miroslav Vitous the twenty years onetime Czech bass histrion is all simply conventional, accompanies amongst intricate together with meandering restlessly walking or running lines together with his explorative solos every bit on “Matrix” or fifty-fifty amend on the pair of “Now He…” , are the paradigm of creative abandon; every bit for the some xv years his senior Roy Haynes, his vast sense brought him all simply stiffness, every bit boldly together with flexibly he either keeps the beat out amongst unrelenting ride cymbal effort together with sporadic, unexpected, sensitive together with perfectly timed inspired rolls or he jumps upwardly forepart to declaration on the pregnant of the piece.
Consisting of solely 5 tracks the album is launched at breakneck velocity amongst Hard-bop virtuosity past times the close fourteen minutes long tour-de-force “Steps-What Was”; on the sec part after a drum solo, Corea flirts amongst fragments of together with delineates what “Spain” would become, both amongst overtly similar melodies together with inward a preview of its harmonic together with rhythmic complexity; on the championship rail the pianist alternatively conveys joy together with hurting amongst opened upwardly together with glad major intervals or amongst closed, altered minor together with weeping chords; his command of the shades of harmony is incremented amongst impressionistic Classical instincts on “Now He Beats…” either conveying aggressiveness or lyricism, earlier Vitous together with Haynes larn into midway through the 10 minutes-plus slice together with without interfering amongst the pianist’s shifting states-of-mind, together with turning abstraction into organic pulsations install a communal vision which allows them to modify the mood or at the snap of a finger revert to it;
“The Law of Falling…” are two ½ minutes of avant-garde, Musique Concrète, knocking together with hammering on pianoforte together with bass strings together with on the instruments forest proper, sweeping chimes, brisk pizzicato runs together with drum rolls, a brief together with inward no agency painful glimpse at silent other option routes, yet what’s impressive, together with if non enlightening definitely stupefying, is how an album where solely i subject - “Matrix” amongst its Tyner-esque Hard-Bop adventures -, was rehearsed inward a conventional manner, yielded such a bountiful crop of dry soil marker together with earmarking case-study material, admittedly to a greater extent than oftentimes than non spontaneously created past times improvising atop together with approximately mere sketches.
This mix of mechanical empathy together with creative impetus famously impressed Miles, who a duet of months after would occupation Corea’s pianoforte talent for the 1st of his participations on “Kilimanjaro”
“Now He Sings…” amongst Bonus Tracks
…To increment amazement levels on all of us mutual mortals, the residuum of the pieces recorded during the iii dates that the sessions for the album lasted ,and which had non been used, get got been added every bit bonus tracks on the CD reissue: from the Oriental tainted together with flutteringly Boppish “Samba Yantra”, together with the elliptic Bossa amongst purposely understated simply yet solid time-keeping of “Bossa”, to the controlled explosion of 20th Century Classical together with Avant-Garde instincts on “Fragments”, together with the modulations on a succession of opening together with closing frames on the beautiful together with uplifting “Windows”, past times the two parted improvisational experiment for pianoforte together with bass of “Gemini” together with upwardly to a novel found virtuosity without loosing the persuasion on a accept on Monk’s “Pannonica” together with a quasi-dysfunctional simply consistently effective dearest declaration on “My One together with Only Love”, this is close a doubling of the pleasure….
In 1999, the unmarried "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" was given the Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
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Track listing:
01 Steps-What Was (13:50)
02 Matrix (6:28)
03 Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (7:03)
04 Now He Beats The Drum-Now He Stops (10:35)
05 The Law Of Falling And Catching Up (2:28)
06 Samba Yantra (2:41)
07 Bossa (4:45)
08 I Don't Know (2:43)
09 Fragments (4:04)
10 Windows (3:12)
xi Gemini (4:24)
12 Pannonica (3:00)
xiii My One And Only Love (3:34)
Personnel:
Chick Corea – Piano
Roy Haynes – Drums
Miroslav Vitous – Bass
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