Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is amid the greatest pianoforte trio albums always released. Recorded inwards 1968, the tape firmly established Chick equally a pianist in addition to composer amongst a unique vision, i that floated gratis of traditional genre distinctions in addition to conventions, into novel in addition to thrilling territory. With veteran drummer Roy Haynes in addition to vivid bassist Miroslav Vitous, Chick creates a novel linguistic communication of his own, at i time recognizable from the first, classic cymbal flourish in addition to pianoforte run of “Matrix.” The trio is locked in, totally attuned to each other, in addition to 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 keen affinity for Afro-Cuban Jazz piece working amongst Mongo Santamaria, in addition to Sonny Stitt amid others, composed, arranged in addition to inwards the procedure greatly incrementing the dimension of albums such equally 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 in addition to fifty-fifty released his 1st album equally 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 job on his songs;
he’d been enchanting all those who contacted his music, amongst his talent, vitality, virtuosity in addition to a novel perspective inwards composing in addition to making the pieces unfold; this perspective had points inwards mutual amongst Coltrane’s opened upwardly 4tet explorations in addition to inwards detail amongst McCoy Tyner’s style, only 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 in addition to at the cease of the twenty-four hours was the start out of a long lasting in addition to productive trio friendship.
If Corea is adventurous his partners never permit him downward either: six years his junior, Miroslav Vitous the 20 years quondam Czech bass histrion is all only conventional, accompanies amongst intricate in addition to meandering restlessly walking or running lines in addition to his explorative solos equally on “Matrix” or fifty-fifty ameliorate on the pair of “Now He…” , are the image of creative abandon; equally for the some fifteen years his senior Roy Haynes, his vast sense brought him all only stiffness, equally boldly in addition to flexibly he either keeps the shell amongst unrelenting ride cymbal crusade in addition to sporadic, unexpected, sensitive in addition to perfectly timed inspired rolls or he jumps upwardly front end to declaration on the pregnant of the piece.
Consisting of exclusively 5 tracks the album is launched at breakneck velocity amongst Hard-bop virtuosity past times the nearly xiv minutes long tour-de-force “Steps-What Was”; on the sec component division after a drum solo, Corea flirts amongst fragments of in addition to delineates what “Spain” would become, both amongst overtly similar melodies in addition to inwards a preview of its harmonic in addition to rhythmic complexity; on the championship rails the pianist alternatively conveys joy in addition to hurting amongst opened upwardly in addition to glad major intervals or amongst closed, altered minor in addition to 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 in addition to Haynes instruct into midway through the 10 minutes-plus slice in addition to without interfering amongst the pianist’s shifting states-of-mind, in addition to turning abstraction into organic pulsations install a communal vision which allows them to alteration 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 in addition to hammering on pianoforte in addition to bass strings in addition to on the instruments woods proper, sweeping chimes, brisk pizzicato runs in addition to drum rolls, a brief in addition to inwards no agency painful glimpse at soundless other option routes, yet what’s impressive, in addition to if non enlightening definitely stupefying, is how an album where exclusively i subject - “Matrix” amongst its Tyner-esque Hard-Bop adventures -, was rehearsed inwards a conventional manner, yielded such a bountiful crop of dry reason marker in addition to earmarking case-study material, admittedly generally spontaneously created past times improvising atop in addition to some mere sketches.
This mix of mechanical empathy in addition to creative impetus famously impressed Miles, who a twain of months after would utilisation 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 residue of the pieces recorded during the three dates that the sessions for the album lasted ,and which had non been used, get got been added equally bonus tracks on the CD reissue: from the Oriental tainted in addition to flutteringly Boppish “Samba Yantra”, in addition to the elliptic Bossa amongst purposely understated only withal solid time-keeping of “Bossa”, to the controlled explosion of 20th Century Classical in addition to Avant-Garde instincts on “Fragments”, in addition to the modulations on a succession of opening in addition to closing frames on the beautiful in addition to uplifting “Windows”, past times the two parted improvisational experiment for pianoforte in addition to bass of “Gemini” in addition to upwardly to a novel found virtuosity without loosing the catch on a get got on Monk’s “Pannonica” in addition to a quasi-dysfunctional only consistently effective honey declaration on “My One in addition to Only Love”, this is nearly 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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