AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Tone Poet / Blue Note - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl 

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio 

AAA 100% Analogue  - Limited Edition -  Audiophile Mastering - Pressed  at RTI

The original pressing (like every original Solid State LP I’ve ever heard) was underwhelming, with disappointing piano tone. Kevin Gray have again restored life to the recording, with tonal purity lacking from the original. The LP does not create an entirely convincing soundscape or have the ideal instrumental balance of the Shorter release, but it is still far ahead of the original. Oddly enough, this slight shortcoming disappears when listening through headphones, where the spatial balance sounds just right. Sound 4/5 The Audio Beat

Corea's classic Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, with Miroslav Vitous on bass and Roy Haynes on drums, was originally released on Solid State. It presents Corea with one foot in bebop and the other striding forward into 'The New Thing'. 'Now He Beats The Drum, Now He Stops' opens with a solo piano exploration before morphing into the briskly swinging trio section based on the chords to 'How Deep Is The Ocean'. Corea explores freely inside the piano on the avant-garde number, 'The Law Of Falling And Catching Up', while the kinetic 'Steps: What Was' hints at what would later become Corea's most beloved and oft-covered tune, 'Spain'. The leader's boppish 'Matrix', another buner characterized by his Bud Powell-esque right-hand flurries on the keys, would later become a jazz standard." - Bill Milkowski, The Absolute Sound, July/August 2019

Blue Note Records’ Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series is produced by Joe Harley and features all-analog, mastered-from-the-original-master-tape

180g audiophile vinyl reissues in deluxe gatefold packaging. Mastering is by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) and vinyl is manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated (RTI).

Chick’s brilliant trio album from 1968, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is held in the same kind of rarefied esteem as the classic Bill Evans trio sessions. One listen will tell you why …. the exquisite interplay between Chick, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous and drum master Roy Haynes make it abundantly clear why this album has achieved such legendary status among jazz piano trio recordings. Now He Sing’s, Now He Sobs features a program of all Corea compositions including the first recording of Matrix, one of Corea’s most beloved tunes. 

Musicians:
Chick Corea, piano
Miroslav Vitous, acoustic bass
Roy Haynes, drums

Selections:
Side One:
1. Steps - What Was
2. Matrix
Side Two:
1. Now He Sings - Now He Sobs
2. Now He Beats The Drum-Now He Stops
3. The Law Of Falling And Catching Up