Chick Corea - Windows (drumless track)

• "Windows" is a jazz fusion composition written by acclaimed pianist and composer Chick Corea.
• It appeared on Corea's 1967 album "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" recorded for the Blue Note label.
• The album featured Corea's avant-garde trio with bassist Miroslav Vitous and drummer Roy Haynes.
• "Windows" showcases Corea's innovative playing blending jazz with elements of 20th century classical music composition.
• The nearly 13-minute piece has several distinct sections that flow together in a suite-like format.
• It opens with a rhythmically complex theme played in counterpoint before moving into freer, more exploratory improvised sections.
• Corea's piano work alternates between crystalline melodic lines and percussive, jabbing chord clusters.
• Vitous and Haynes provide an interactive, elastic rhythmic foundation for Corea's improvisations.
• "Windows" was a landmark recording that helped establish Corea at the forefront of the jazz avant-garde scene of the 1960s.
• It demonstrated his abilities as a composer pushing the boundaries of the traditional jazz piano trio format.
• It is among the earliest of Corea's compositions to have achieved the status of a jazz standard.

• Chick Corea
• Windows
• Drumless
• Jazz piano trio
• Play-along track
• Minus drums
• Avant-garde jazz
• Backing track
• Music minus one
• Drum cover
• Drummer wanted
• Now He Sings, Now He Sobs album
• Corea improvisation
• Drum practice