Plays

"The scope of musical material covered in these two CDs (or three LPs) is sizeable, including (in addition to those mentioned above) Gershwin, Scarlatti, Chopin, Scriabin and Evans, and to my mind they seem like two quite different and unconnected CDs ... We could easily have been looking at two separate CD releases here, which is what makes it in some ways a difficult release to digest. The two CDs have their own identities, and don't really sound especially great side by side, unlike Corea's well-chosen paired/grouped tracks on CD1".

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"As we huddle and binge on our national and moral failings, having as buoyant and engaging an artist come into our homes, as Chick Corea does on Plays, is simply a great, beautiful thing, and one of the core reasons that, even in the face of the daily ire, the majority of us hold tight the better part of ourselves in order to share it with the greater whole".

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"Throughout, Corea's way of paying tribute is to match his genius with that of other great composers, both playing and playing with what they've written. And there's an equal amount of sparkle on the second disc, where the main composer is Corea himself".