Corea's Humpty Dumpty , which interpretation you prefer?

[beat Hit]

Ok, we have the original version of Humpty Dumpty on Corea' "The Mad Hatter" with Steve Gadd on drums, the other one is on Acoustic Band's Alive with Dave Weckl and we have Acoustic Band Live at the Blue Note Tokyo with Vinnie. What are your comments on each performance?

For me I love Gadd's one better. The musicality, the nice flow and the way he responds back to the other bandmates demonstrate Gadd's trademark in a nice way. Beautiful playing, beautiful language on the drums !!!! Another musician's drummer...

I also like Weckl's but for different reasons. I like his straight ahead interpretation, but he won't reach me as much as Gadd does. Why? I have no ideas!! I am still thinking on this one, I can't put it into words right now. His timing as always is perfect though...

Vinnie's is also great. I love his DRIVE, his energy. Apparently his was touring with Sting as he got this Corea gig. Sponteneous explosions that Vinnie loves to bring at times... Especially when he's having fun it seems... Just like a kid in a chocolate factory... LOL!!!!

Ciao,

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 15, 2002 03:36 PM: Message edited by: beat Hit ]</font>

[Zapkinson]

Humpty Dumpty version with Steve Gadd is on the Chick Corea album "The Mad Hatter". The phrase of the whole tune is an 18 bar phrase and only Vinnie could trade "18s" and then the band plays 10 and he solos over 8" at the end! Awsome!
I do like the way Weckl outlines the melody at the begining of his opening solo. You can actually sing the tune. Very cool.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 15, 2002 03:29 PM: Message edited by: Zapkinson ]</font>

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 16, 2002 06:40 AM: Message edited by: Zapkinson ]</font>

[beat Hit]

Thanks Zap for the correction...

Humpty Dumpty is not on "Friends" but Mad Hatter it is!!!

Ciao,

[drumaddict]

That's a good tune to use as a comparison since the 3 greats all play it with Chick's bands. I have to say that Gadd's version is the classic as it is the original studio recording and he was in his prime. The next album Chick did with him was "Friends", which to me is the all time classic Chick/Gadd album. Anyone who has'nt heard this owes it to themselves to hear this quartet. It all flows so beautifully and musically yet the players are all free to interpret the charts. Gadd's solo on Samba Song is a well known classic for sure!