Chick Corea: Solo Piano, Improvisations and Children's Songs | CD reviews

(ECM, 3 CDs)This is three Corea solo piano albums, from 1971 and 1983, reissued as a box, the first pieces being recorded for ECM when the pianist was still at work in the adventurous free-jazz group Circle. The 1983 music is from Corea's Children's Songs album. The beautifully performed 1971 music aside, this collection is a fascinating piece of history, because it was ECM boss Manfred Eicher's idea to reignite a solo piano jazz-improv tradition more or less abandoned since the era of Art Tatum...

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