Matrix…and Mean

Jul 27, 2012 at 6:28 pm

I’m deep into an early Chick Corea phase and strongly recommend you join me there.  Just genius at work, exploring the harmonic reaches of jazz, in this case, through a little blues head called Matrix.  He was playing this stuff in 1968 and it still sounds futuristic.

Or, if you want something a lot more poppy, here’s a song from Taylor Swift that I’ve heard about 134 times so far this week at home…I find her enormously appealing and a pretty great pop/country songwriter, singer, and performer.

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9 Responses to “Matrix…and Mean”

1. davesnyd says:

   July 28, 2012 at 9:15 am

   Um, you’re missing the Taylor Swift link…

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   • Jared Bernstein says:

     July 28, 2012 at 2:29 pm

     Fixed.

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2. jo6pac says:

   July 28, 2012 at 9:56 am

   Seen Chick a few times Great Stuff but I’m kind into this person.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_hWZp_BVAI&feature=related

   Enjoy

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3. Allen says:

   July 28, 2012 at 5:22 pm

   Thanks Jared for the Chick Corea link — from that link I went here:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAS5uwr_cY&feature=related

   You get a real sense of his influences here and his passion for music…plus there’s that hip-jazz-guy Boston accent Chick has…which I’d forgotten about!

   Great stuff!

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4. Frank says:

   July 28, 2012 at 6:03 pm

   Excellent version of “Mean” that Taylor did at the 2012 Grammys. On a nice multilevel set:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDXBz-T4HE

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   • Jared Bernstein says:

     July 28, 2012 at 9:13 pm

     Agree re excellence…although this song itself is kinda mean, no?

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5. David says:

   July 29, 2012 at 2:56 am

   Chick did some amazing work with Stan Getz in the late 60′s and early 70′s. Here’s a clip from the album “Sweet Rain,” which I recommend heartily.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t8eQMlDebI

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6. Nhon Tran says:

   July 29, 2012 at 7:59 am

   Thanks. I went to Taylor Swift’s concert in Sydney on 9 March 2012 and it was an awesome show. She did “Mean,” “You Belong With Me,” etc. We Aussies adore her.

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7. Ed O'Connor says:

   July 30, 2012 at 2:29 pm

   In addition to the classic “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs”, I enjoy the following albums with Chick:

   Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea: Evening With
   Chick Corea: Crystal Silence, the ECM Recordings 1972 – 1979

   Great stuff.

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