Herbie Hancock

Last night I was once again fortunate enough to witness Herbie Hancock live and it really brought home how ahead of the times he always is. I'll admit to not being immensely into his most recent album but hearing him explain the concepts behind it made me appreciate it more; about how he wanted to combine styles of music from all around the world and blend diverse cultures together not only on the same album but the same song, about how we're facing up to globalization and need to make it a unifying thing that works for us in a positive way rather something we're forced into against our will.

I've been very heartened to see how many people on this board recognize the significance of Sextant, his final album with the Mwandishi group that he formed in 1971. He's interested in electronica but doesn't know an awful lot about it and he chuckled when I told him that the record had influenced so many electronic artists twenty years after its release. There are plenty of brilliant musicians in jazz but few so forward thinking as this man!

And cause I can't help myself I gotta post a photo of the goods

i really like head hunters, thrust, and flood

thrust is pretty much the bible for funk drum and bass playing

  On 4/29/2011 at 5:58 AM, ieafs said:

i still haven't heard flood - been waiting to try and find a copy of it but it's pretty expensive. good era/music style for album covers though, 70s fusion...

you can try bt.etree.org for live soundboards from around the same time, if that helps

  On 4/29/2011 at 5:58 AM, ieafs said:

yeah imagine being in miles' band at 21... although jack dejohnette was seventeen... it's weird that he's gone so off the ball though. other than the idea (if not the outcome) of doing a joni mitchell cover album is pretty good in my books.

 

crossings through too manchild is a pretty amazing run though. rokit is pretty precient too, even if i don't like it that much.i still haven't heard flood - been waiting to try and find a copy of it but it's pretty expensive. good era/music style for album covers though, 70s fusion...

Crossings is my favourite; some utterly mindblowing shit on there. I have to say I do really like The Joni Letters though, it was a nice mellow album and seemed a lot less tacky than that big collaboration album with John Meyer n shit. But I do like Joni Mitchell a lot

The best shit he pulled out last night was 'Dolphin Dance' from Maiden Voyage, he went through a really dark, mellow piano solo into 'Round Midnight' then to that and it was just unbelievable. Bookended the set with the most intense chops-frenzies though; started with an absolutely storming version of 'Actual Proof' and finished with 'Chameleon'. Trevor Lawrence is one motherfucker of a drummer!!

Total legend. I've got so much love for him. The stuff he did in the 70s is beyond unique.

Gonna see him next month at the annual jazz festival here. Very excite!

my favourites are head hunters, thrust, maiden voyage, miles´second great quintet stuff.... too many

  On 4/29/2011 at 5:58 AM, ieafs said:

yeah imagine being in miles' band at 21... although jack dejohnette was seventeen... it's weird that he's gone so off the ball though. other than the idea (if not the outcome) of doing a joni mitchell cover album is pretty good in my books.

 

crossings through too manchild is a pretty amazing run though. rokit is pretty precient too, even if i don't like it that much.i still haven't heard flood - been waiting to try and find a copy of it but it's pretty expensive. good era/music style for album covers though, 70s fusion...

i think you mean tony williams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfsnVYVd3iI

:sup:

ow yea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cb1ci-hN84

This is me right now. And resin hits and contemplation.

From most of the interviews I've read I think that Miles' band was scared of him and would pretty much do whatever he told them to do without having too many ego issues. Pretty funny considering he never took the Buddy Rich / Charles Mingus approach to keeping his sidemen in line but apparently he had a larger than life personality. Plus by the sixties he was quite famous and highly regarded as well.

We've been doing pretty well getting Miles Davis group members down here in Australia.. In the first four months of this year we've already had Herbie, Chick Corea, Lenny White, Jack DeJohnette (who skipped Brisbane!! Gahh) and in June we're getting Ron Carter :)

chameleon is one of my favorite things in the world.

respect

head hunters (minus herbie) have a new album this year!

i thought it was you is such a beautiful song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q25nUY3iEE

  On 4/29/2011 at 11:32 PM, triachus said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfsnVYVd3iI

 

:sup:

 

ow yea

Even better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwmDNPegnM

his entire career is filled with gems

you can't sleep on any of it

A top crashdown cure:

If you love Mwandishi, Crossings, and Sextant, the same band, Herbie and all, made:

Eddie Henderson - Realization

Eddie Henderson - Inside Out

(Both albums on Anthology Vol. 2)

I just discovered this and I'm digging this treasure trove of Mwandishi goodness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWvNTBU1F1c

the 1st lp i purchased with my own money as a kid

(i got it for less than 1$ used)

  On 5/9/2011 at 11:13 PM, Candiru said:

If you love Mwandishi, Crossings, and Sextant, the same band, Herbie and all, made:

 

Eddie Henderson - Realization

Eddie Henderson - Inside Out

(Both albums on Anthology Vol. 2)

 

I just discovered this and I'm digging this treasure trove of Mwandishi goodness.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWvNTBU1F1c

Great track indeed!

Damn I've been looking for those Eddie Henderson albums, haven't been able to find them!!! Hurts me!!!!!

last year in my worlds of music class, my instructor played a recording of watermelon man off headhunters as an example of summ authentic baka AKA forest people AKA pygmy flute music (yknow that flute in the intro). as the song progressed he informed the class how the baka incorporated guitar, keyboards, drum kits, and saxophone into their music at the turn of the twentieth century. i laughed so hard i cried.

Them Baka were some funky ass motherfuckers apparently