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.
Um, you’re missing the Taylor Swift link…
Fixed.
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
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!
Excellent version of “Mean” that Taylor did at the 2012 Grammys. On a nice multilevel set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDXBz-T4HE
Agree re excellence…although this song itself is kinda mean, no?
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
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.
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.