Expressions

Chick Corea | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Grp Records
• ASIN: B0000001TT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,928 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tech rebut, April 29, 2005

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andrew Kingson "windrider" (Winnipeg, Mb canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Expressions (Audio CD)

I read the first review of this album while listening to poor quality previews on good headphones. It sounded fine, contrary to the opinion of the piano tech. I decided to ignore the review and buy the cd. I was not disappointed. First from a purely "sound quality" point of view this cd compares very favourably to a steinway played by Benny Green and recorded by Rudy von Gelder. The Yamaha is a tad brighter, but not objectionably so. Then there's the performance. It is almost too good. Chick casts an incredible spell that you just don't want to end. Please don't be discouraged by the tech babble review: this is a sterling performance by any standard.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contemplative expressions, August 17, 2008

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Expressions (Audio CD)

First of all, I'm not an audiophile who has first rate equipment, so I cannot comment on the quality of recording...
I like the music.
Personally, I would prefer a bit more swinging affair, but this album is not of the swinging sort (after all, Corea was regarded as one of the best and most influential fusion keyboardists...).

This is an extremely interesting and contemplative, personal revision of jazz history, containing Corea's originals, jazz classics (f. i. Monk's "Pannonica") and pop-jazz evergreens (including "Stella by Starlight" and Chaplin's "Smile")...

This is not an solo piano album for those who seek for variety, however - the range of Corea's influences and inspirations is huge, but this is Chick Corea's personal album with, perhaps, only Corea's "Blues for Art" and "Smile" giving the touch of the retro-schtick some of us jazz fans like so much...

All in all, a well-rounded and interesting modern jazz album.

3.0 out of 5 stars I'm just never gonna get it., October 15, 2011

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jive rhapsodist (NYC, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Expressions (Audio CD)

Why is Chick Corea considered a harmonic master? I hear a total overconcentration on a simple form of Quartal harmony - I guess if you're being charitable you can call that "Harmonic Recomposition" (I Want To Be Happy). And he's got this strong left hand, which he basically uses to create a Smooth Jazz/Latin ostinato for each tune (Smile, for example). Somehow I've made it through a 40 - year engagement with Jazz and Jazz - related music without understanding Corea's appeal. But every once in a while somebody writes something (in this case it was an article where several pianists claimed that Bud Powell's limited harmonic sense had been superceded by pianists like Corea - as if!) that makes me feel like I've really missed something. I also read Lee Konitz saying that the best performances of Monk tunes were by Corea - Lee, you're amazing, but Monk's Mood played in the style of Vince Guaraldi seems to, shall we say, miss certain salient points. And Corea phrases the melody of Pannonica as though he were Bill Murray's lounge singer on an old episode of Saturday Night Live. I don't get it folks, I don't - times like these, I just think I don't really like the piano - gotta go clear the palate w/Webern Opus 27, or something like that. And, as for Bud Powell, the cover of Oblivion - what is it? A bunch of pianistic tricks: a little Stride, some "Bachian Counterpoint", a bunch of Whole -Tone substitutions, a Double - Time section. Very flashy, in a respectfully unflashy way.

It's all too much. And not enough. In some sense, I'm surely wrong - 50 Million Frenchmen, and all that. But there it is: another hour out of my life, listening to pleasant Jazz Piano, looking for something to love, and not finding it. Eh oui.