# CD review: Chick Corea – Plays 2020: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/09/16/cd-review-chick-corea-plays-2020-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2020-09-16T23:40:01+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**The latest addition to Chick Corea’s remarkable discography is ‘Plays’, a captivating
and intimate double album of solo performances. While he claims that, “Solo piano
is lonely,” Chick finds himself in good company throughout these stellar performances,
engaging with several of his favorite composers.**

The list of icons represents a wide swath of musical history, from the classical
repertoire of Mozart and Chopin to formative jazz influences like Thelonious Monk
and Bill Evans, on to the Great American Songbook classics, the bossa nova beauty
of Jobim, and the modern pop sensibility of Stevie Wonder.

With countless classics having become standards over the last half century, Corea
himself deserves to take his place in that pantheon, and ‘Plays’ includes a number
of pieces – reprised from past albums or spontaneously improvised – from his own
estimable songbook. The album also showcases his charming rapport with enthusiastic
audiences in concert halls across Europe and the U.S., who become integral collaborators
in these spirited renditions.

**CD1**

1. Chick Talks Mozart and Gershwin (Live in Clearwater / 2018) (2:13)
 2. Mozart:
Piano Sonata in F, KV332 (2nd Part – Adagio) (Live in Clearwater / 2018) (4:18) 
3. Someone To Watch Over Me (Live in Clearwater / 2018) (7:40) 4. Improvisation 
on Scarlatti (Live in Paris / 2018) (2:18) 5. Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor K9, L413
Allegro (Live in Paris / 2018) (2:08) 6. Yesterdays (Live in Paris / 2018) (5:40)
7. Chick Talks Bill Evans and Antonio Jobim (Live in Berlin / 2018) (0:41) 8. Waltz
For Debby (Live in Berlin / 2018) (7:22) 9. Desafinado (Live in Berlin / 2018) (
5:07) 10. Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 #4 (Live in Paris / 2018) (4:14) 11. Scriabin: 
Prelude Op. 11 (Part 1) #4 (Live in Paris / 2018) (5:00) 12. Chick Talks Monk (Live
in Berlin / 2018) (0:20) 13. Pannonica (Live in Berlin / 2018) (4:13) 14. Trinkle
Tinkle (Live in Berlin / 2018) (2:34) 15. Blue Monk (Live in Berlin / 2018) (4:21)

**CD2**

1. Pastime Paradise (Live in Clearwater / 2018) (5:56)
 2. Chick Talks Paco (Live
in Clearwater / 2018) (0:47) 3. The Yellow Nimbus (Live in Paris / 2018) (9:33) 
4. Chick Talks Portraits (Live in Paris / 2018) (0:59) 5. Portrait: Henrietta (Live
in Paris / 2018) (2:22) 6. Portrait: Chris (Live in Paris / 2018) (2:08) 7. Chick
Talks Duets (Live in Paris / 2018) (0:22) 8. Duet: Yaron (Live in Paris / 2018) (
3:57) 9. Duet: Charles (Live in Paris / 2018) (3:07) 10. Chick Talks Children’s 
Songs (Live in Paris / 2018) (0:43) 11. Children’s Song No. 1 (Live in Paris / 2018)(
1:43) 12. Children’s Song No. 3 (Live in Paris / 2018) (1:12) 13. Children’s Song
No. 4 (Live in Paris / 2018) (2:36) 14. Children’s Song No. 9 (Live in Paris / 2018)(
1:25) 15. Children’s Song No. 10 (Live in Paris / 2018) (3:50) 16. Children’s Song
No. 15 (Live in Paris / 2018) (1:34) 17. Children’s Song No. 17 (Live in Paris /
2018) (3:43) 18. Children’s Song No. 12 (Live in Paris / 2018) (7:57)

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