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| Released | October 4, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | November 1981 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 74:52 | |||
| Label | ECM 1232/33 | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Trio Music is a double album album by Chick Corea,recorded in November 1981 and released by ECM Records in October of the following year. The trio features rhythm section Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes.
The album peaked at number seventeen on Billboard 's Jazz Albums chart. [1] The record is this trio’s successor to the 1968 classic Now He Sings,Now He Sobs and the precursor of their 1986 Trio Music,Live in Europe . The album was also issued as single CD edition.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [5] |
In a review for AllMusic,Scott Yanow wrote:"The first half of this two-fer... is sometimes a touch lightweight even with moments of interest... However,the second album... comes across quite well as Corea does justice to the spirit of Monk without losing his own strong musical personality." [2]
Peter Marsh of the BBC stated:"ECM has always brought out the best in Corea,with the label's tendency towards introspection stripping away most of the fussiness and bombast that makes some of his other recordings a bit hard to stomach. The trio setting is a sympathetic frame for Corea's pianistic talents for much the same reasons." [6]
Writing for Between Sound and Space,Tyran Grillo commented:"Highly recommend for the lovely Monk set alone,but give the improvisations a chance,and you will surely find a wealth of colors to explore again and again." [7]
Disc one:“Trio Improvisations”
Disc two:“The Music of Thelonious Monk”
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1983 | Billboard Jazz Albums | 17 [8] |
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz composer,pianist,keyboardist,bandleader,and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain","500 Miles High","La Fiesta","Armando's Rhumba",and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s,he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner,Herbie Hancock,and Keith Jarrett,Corea is considered to have been one of the foremost jazz pianists of the post-John Coltrane era.
Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš is a Czech jazz bassist.
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Now He Sings,Now He Sobs is the second album by Chick Corea,released in December 1968 on Solid State Records. It features Corea in a trio with bassist Miroslav Vitoušand drummer Roy Haynes. In 2002 it was reissued on CD by Blue Note with eight bonus tracks recorded at the same sessions.
Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 is the seventh solo album by Chick Corea,recorded over two days in April 1971 and released on ECM later that year. These sessions,featuring a solo Corea on acoustic piano,also produced the subsequent Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 released March the following year. These two albums served as a bridge of sorts between Corea's experimental acoustic works in Circle and his more accessible work with Return to Forever.
Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 is the eighth solo album by Chick Corea,recorded in April of 1971,and released in 1972. Recorded at the same sessions as his previous album,it similarly features Corea by himself on acoustic piano.
In Concert,Zürich,October 28,1979 is a jazz album by pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton. It features live versions of instrumental pieces that the duo played on the albums Crystal Silence and Duet.
Rendezvous in New York is an album by American pianist Chick Corea that was released on April 22,2003 by Corea's label,Stretch Records. The recording took place at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City over the course of three weeks. Corea reunited with members from nine bands that he played with in the past. Musicians included Terence Blanchard,Gary Burton,Roy Haynes,Bobby McFerrin,Joshua Redman,Gonzalo Rubalcaba,and Miroslav Vitous.
The DeJohnette Complex is the debut album by Jack DeJohnette featuring Bennie Maupin,Stanley Cowell,Miroslav Vitous,Eddie Gómez,and Roy Haynes recorded in 1968 and released on the Milestone label in 1969.
Universal Syncopations is an album by Czech bassist Miroslav Vitoušrecorded between 2002–2003 and released on ECM later that year.
Triplicate is a studio album by British jazz bassist Dave Holland released on the ECM label in 1988. It features Holland in a trio with alto saxophonist Steve Coleman and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
Circling In is a double LP collection by jazz pianist Chick Corea featuring performances recorded between 1968 and 1970,including the first recordings by the group Circle,which was first released on the Blue Note label in 1975. It contains trio performances by Corea with Miroslav Vitoušand Roy Haynes recorded in March 1968,which were later added to the CD reissue of Now He Sings,Now He Sobs as bonus tracks,and performances by permutations of the band Circle recorded in April and July 1970 some of which were later released as Early Circle.
Afternoon of a Georgia Faun is an album by American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded on August 10,1970 and released on ECM later that year. Along with Geechee Recollections and Sweet Earth Flying,it was one of Brown's albums dedicated to the US state of Georgia. The album features Brown,multi-instrumentalists Anthony Braxton and Bennie Maupin,vocalists Jeanne Lee and Gayle Palmore,pianist Chick Corea,and percussionists Andrew Cyrille and Jack Gregg,all of whom double on secondary instruments,along with three supplementary percussionists for the second track.
Duet is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist Chick Corea recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label in 1979. The album is the second studio recording by the duo following Crystal Silence (1972). La Fiesta is a cover that was found on Chick Corea's solo album,Return to Forever from 1972 and which was at the time untitled Sometime Ago - La Fiesta,this album then gave birth to the group of the same name.
El Corazón is an album by jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell recorded in February 1982 and released on ECM later that year.
Lyric Suite for Sextet is an album by piano–vibraphone duo Chick Corea and Gary Burton recorded in September 1982 and released on ECM a year later—the duo's third studio recording,following Crystal Silence (1972) and Duet (1978). The sextet features the pair accompanied by a string quartet comprising violinists Ik-Hwan Bae and Carol Shrive,violist Karen Dreyfus,and cellist Fred Sherry.
Trio Music Live in Europe is a live album by pianist Chick Corea with bassist Miroslav Vitous and drummer Roy Haynes recorded in Switzerland and Germany in 1984 and released on the ECM label.
Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 is an album by pianist Chick Corea,with saxophonist Lee Konitz,or drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Miroslav Vitous recorded at the Woodstock Jazz Festival celebrating Creative Music Studio's 10th Anniversary in Woodstock,NY in 1981 and released on the Douglas Music label in 1997.
"Windows" is a jazz composition in 3
4 time by Chick Corea. It has become a jazz standard,and is among the earliest of Corea's compositions to have achieved this status.
Trilogy 2 is a live album by Chick Corea with Christian McBride and Brian Blade. It was first released in 2018 in Japan on the Universal Music label,and in 2019 by Concord Records. The album is a follow-up to Trilogy,which was issued in 2013.
