CinemaNow - Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Trio

At the tender age of 26, Chick went into the studio with Czech bass prodigy Miroslav Vitous and drum genius Ray Haynes and recorded Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, an album so fresh and original that pianists immediatly began to take apart and study it. It helped to redifine modern jazz. Today, the album is a classic, and the protagonists retain their sense of adventure. Here they're playing together for the first time in many years. They explore "Straight, No Chaser," an ingenious blues by Thelonious Monk that blends modernist harmony with idiosyncratic phrasing within the line. Chick plays his own vocabulary during a long opening solo. After a blues-drenched statement by Miroslav, he launches into a series of inventions on Monk's language during a long series of 12-bar exchanges with Roy. He never played it the same way twice then, and he continues to surprise himself - and everyone else.