Jazz Articles

Herbie Hancock: Living Jazz

by Jim Santella
May 1, 1997

Released late last year, this CD-ROM brings state-of-the-art computer graphics into your home for use as a means of discovering the broad history of jazz. Offering video footage, audio clips, interactive graphic menus, an original poetry presentation from Quincy Troupe, and several original compositions by Hancock with his piano trio, this collection could occupy hours and hours of your leisure time. As a reference, the video clips offer an opportunity to see artists such as Thelonious Monk, Roy Eldridge, Albert ...