A great surprise landed yesterday:

Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs +8 (CD/SACD Hybrid) [Pre-order item, shipping scheduled after June 30th]
https://www.stereosound-store.jp/c/music/media/sacd_hybrid/4907034225859
https://elusivedisc.com/chick-corea-now-he-sings-now-he-sobs-8-hybrid-stereo-japanese-import-sacd/

ESOTERIC only released 6-SACD boxsets before (Standards, Miles Davis, etc.) but this is the first individual release.



I already bought the 2019's Blue Note HiRes files release [96kHz · 24bit] (DR17) 5-track original release.

But this one adds another 8 tracks!

1. Steps - What Was
2. Matrix
3. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
4. Now He Beats the Drum, Now He Stops
5. The Law of Falling and Catching Up
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6. Samba Yantra
7. Bossa
8. I Don't Know
9. Fragments
10. Windows
11. Gemini
12. Pannonica
13. My One and Only Love

This is the 1968 album that got Chick Corea truly recognized, made Miles David choose him for b**ches Brew, and right before he went on to boot Return to Forever.

You can clearly hear elements of "La Fiesta" and "What Game Shall Will Play Today" in Steps - What Was.

Julien

The Chick Corea SACD is now sold out but they announced a new individual jazz release for pre-orders:

Undercurrent + 4 Bill Evans & Jim Hall (CD/SACD Hybrid) [Pre-order item, shipping from December 15th]
https://www.stereosound-store.jp/c/music/4907034226047
https://elusivedisc.com/bill-evans-jim-hall-undercurrent-4-hybrid-stereo-japanese-import-sacd/



Julien