After spending a year with the avant-garde quartet
Circle
,
Chick Corea
's desire to communicate to a wider audience led to him deciding to break up the unit. His first post-
recordings were two LPs of piano solos.
Vol. 1
features six of his originals including the eight sketches of
"Where Are You Now?,"
and the debut of the future standard "Sometime Ago." These performances are sometimes a bit precious, but they succeed in being acccessible and serve as a transition between
and
Return to Forever
. ~ Scott Yanow