Children's Songs (Chick Corea album)

Children's Songs is an album by Jazz pianist Chick Corea, released in 1984.

Children's Songs
Studio album by Chick Corea
Released	1984
Recorded	July 1983
Genre	Jazz, Classical
Length	37:41
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Chick Corea chronology
Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982) Children's Songs (1984) Septet (1984)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

Children's Songs mainly consists of short songs with simple themes. There is little development in the pieces, which capture a variety of melodies and moods. Corea began writing the first song in 1971.

In the preface of the annotated version Corea stated that he aimed "to convey simplicity as beauty, as represented in the Spirit of a child".

There are stylistic and structural parallels to the cycle Mikrokosmos, by Béla Bartók, including:

• use of the pentatonic scales
• employment of unusual time signatures and cross-rhythms
• expressing a complex variety of atmosphere in a relatively short time
• increasing difficulty and complexity through the sequence

Track listing

1. "No.1"
2. "No.2"
3. "No.3"
4. "No.4"
5. "No.5"
6. "No.6"
7. "No.7"
8. "No.8"
9. "No.9"
10. "No.10"
11. "No.11"
12. "No.12"
13. "No.13"
14. "No.14"
15. "No.15"
16. "No.16 & 17"
17. "No.18"
18. "No.19"
19. "No.20"
20. "Addendum" - (for violin, cello and piano)

Personnel

• Chick Corea - Piano
• Fred Sherry - Cello
• Ida Kavafian - Violin

References

1. Nastos, Michael G. "Chick Corea: Children's Songs - Chick Corea | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 50. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.