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''Now He Sings, Now He Sobs'' is the second album by
Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...
, released in December 1968 on
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. It features Corea in a trio with acoustic bassist Miroslav Vitouš and drummer
Roy Haynes Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jaz ...
. It was later reissued on CD by
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in 2002 with eight bonus tracks recorded at the same sessions. All of the tracks on the original album are improvisations based on Corea’s ideas, with some being entirely free improvisations (such as "The Law of Falling and Catching Up" and "Fragments"). Vitous and Haynes would reunite with Corea as an acoustic trio on '' Trio Music'' (ECM, 1982), '' Trio Music, Live in Europe'' (ECM, 1986), and ''The Trio Live From The Country Club'' (Stretch, 1996). The bonus tracks released on the CD include a cover of
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's composition " Pannonica" and the Wood/Mellin standard "
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". All eight pieces had originally been issued in 1975 on '' Circling In'', a Blue Note “twofer”. In 1999, the single "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" was given the
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.


Reception

The singer
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names it among his 25 favorite albums, explaining: "I think that's just one of the best jazz trio albums ever. Mostly every jazz musician I talk to love that album. It's just a classic."


Track listing

''All tracks are originals by the performers, except where noted.'' Original release #"Steps - What Was" – 13:53 #"Matrix" – 6:29 #"Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" – 7:05 #"Now He Beats the Drum, Now He Stops" – 10:40 #"The Law of Falling and Catching Up" – 2:28 1988 CD release bonus tracks
  1. "Samba Yantra" – 2:41
  2. "Bossa" – 4:44
  3. "I Don't Know" – 2:43
  4. "Fragments" – 4:03
  5. "
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    " – 3:12
  6. "Gemini" – 4:23
  7. " Pannonica" (
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    )     – 3:00
  8. "
    My One and Only Love "My One and Only Love" is a 1953 popular song with music written by Guy Wood and lyrics by Robert Mellin.Gioia, T. (2012). ''The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire''. Oxford University Press. . pp. 284-285. Notable renditions by Frank Sina ...
    " (
    Guy Wood Guy B. Wood (24 July 1911 – 23 February 2001) was a musician and songwriter born in Manchester, England. Wood started his career in music playing saxophone in dance bands in England. He moved to the United States in the 1930s, where he worked f ...
    ,
    Robert Mellin Israel Melnikoff (September 22, 1902 – July 10, 1994), known professionally as Robert Mellin, was a Russian Empire-born American composer and lyricist and music publisher. Born in Kyiv and raised in Chicago, where his first job was music pl ...
    )     – 3:34


Personnel

* Chick Corea – piano * Miroslav Vitouš – bass *
Roy Haynes Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jaz ...
– drums *
Sonny Lester Sumner Lester (November 15, 1924 – April 28, 2018), better known as Sonny Lester, was an American Grammy-award-winning music producer from New York City. He started his career as a musician in a big band jazz ensemble before being drafted into ...
– producer


See also

* '' Trio Music'' (ECM, 1982) * '' Trio Music Live in Europe'' (ECM, 1986)


References


External links


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