Although I am not a big fan of Chick Corea, his Trilogy with Christian McBride and Brian Blade is one of my favorite recent jazz releases. On Joe Henderson's classic "Recorda Me," Corea lives up to his penchant for Latin jazz quite well. Brian Blade's drumming is spectacular, too, but Corea's ingenious piano solos twist and turn in surprising directions while McBride holds it down on a funky bass. One does not even realize it is just a trio because of the volume and space the trio occupies. Beautiful.
Since you are exploring piano trios, if you haven't already, please check out this classic Chick Corea trio album early in his career. IMO, clearly his best. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_He_Sings,_Now_He_Sobs
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the recommendation. I will listen to it soon.
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