Chick Corea Trio – Trilogy (2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Chick Corea Trio – Trilogy (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 3:24:59 minutes | 3,98 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Jazz piano icon Chick Corea presents Trilogy released under Stretch Records/Concord Jazz – A live, triple-CD document of his virtuosic trio with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade. The album ranges from reinventions of classic Corea compositions and previously unrecorded originals to an array of jazz standards and even freshly re-imagined Scriabin.

Trilogy, recorded live around the world, is a recording to rank with the landmarks of Corea’s career. A marvel of live recorded sound, particularly for having been captured in multiple stops on the road, Trilogy sees the trio reinvent classic Corea compositions (such as “Spain”), as well as previously unreleased originals (“Piano Sonata: The Moon”). The group also performs an array of jazz standards (including two Thelonious Monk tunes) and even re-imagines a Prelude by fin-de-siècle Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (“Op. 11, No. 9”).

Summing up Trilogy, Corea says, “I’ve made a life of learning and inventing ways to make music, but it often seems unproductive for me to try to describe it in words. But I have one about working with this trio and making this live album: pleasure. I hope listeners experience the same.”

Arguably (and not many would argue) the greatest living jazz pianist, Chick Corea has had a long and highlight-filled career, beginning with his tenure with the great Miles Davis when Davis was defining the jazz-rock synthesis, through Corea’s own breakthrough jazz fusion recordings and his subsequent journeys into everything from the post-bop avant-garde to classical and new age, and his restless and musically inclusive spirit has always shone through. This expansive live release finds Corea working with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, and the three have an uncanny connection, filling space with gorgeous and subtle phrasings, gliding through all manner of styles with a seemingly effortless elegance, grace, and freshness. The three-disc Trilogy was recorded live at tour stops in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, California, and in Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Turkey, and Japan, by Corea’s longtime (since 1975) recording engineer Bernie Kirsh, who has provided the trio with a bright, warm production sound that allows each player’s slightest shift and voicing to come through with clear precision. In spite of the various locations, this set has a remarkable sonic coherency. It might be too much to call this set a summation of Corea’s legacy, but it does have the slight feel of a retrospective collectio. The band revisits classic Corea compositions like “Spain” and covering several tunes from the Great American Songbook, a couple of Thelonious Monk tunes (“Blue Monk” allows bassist McBride to particularly shine), a previously unissued Corea composition, the half-hour “Piano Sonata: The Moon,” where the trio shows its ability to move between scored and improvised sections with breathtaking ease, and even a take on classical Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s “Op. 11, No. 9” that manages to breathe and flow without sounding like a forced fusion of classical and jazz. There are guests on three tracks, flutist Jorge Pardo and guitarist Niño Josele on “My Foolish Heart” and “Spain,” and vocalist Gayle Moran Corea, the pianist’s wife, on “Someday My Prince Will Come,” but it’s the three primary musicians who drive everything. Not exactly a holding pattern, and not exactly a career summation, Trilogy will surely please and delight Corea’s many fans.

Tracklist:
01 – You’re My Everything
02 – Recorda Me
03 – The Song Is You
04 – Work
05 – My Foolish Heart
06 – Fingerprints
07 – Spain
08 – This Is New
09 – Alice In Wonderland
10 – It Could Happen To You
11 – Blue Monk
12 – Armando’s Rhumba
13 – Op. 11, No. 9
14 – How Deep Is the Ocean?
15 – Homage
16 – Piano Sonata: The Moon
17 – Someday My Prince Will Come