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The Monterey Jazz Festival marked its 60th edition with an impressive programme, featuring 500 artists and over 130 concerts spread over eight stages during the third weekend of September. The stellar line up of musicians that graced the Monterey County Fairgrounds included Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Jimmy Heath, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brad Mehldau & Chris Thile, Joe Lovano, Regina Carter, Linda May Han Oh, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Gerald Clayton, Tia Fuller, Ingrid Jensen, Kenny Barron, Pedrito Martinez, ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival 2017

by Gregory Savage
September 22, 2017

Beautiful sunshine and perfect temperatures, were the backdrop for the 60th Monterey Jazz Festival. Coupled with good food and jazz lovers everywhere, the setting for an incredible weekend. But, this was only the icing. The “cake" was 500 musicians showing up for work, including some of the greatest jazz artists of all time. Headlining the hit list was Herbie Hancock. Add the ingredients of Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chick Corea, Kenny Barron, Regina Carter, Joe Lovano, John Beasley, and you have ...

Album Review

Herbie Hancock: The Blue Note Albums

Read "The Blue Note Albums" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
August 15, 2016

Risale al 1962 il primo disco di Herbie Hancock, già distintosi al fianco di Donald Byrd come pianista equilibrato e raffinato, di sicuro affidamento. La stima di cui godeva era già tale da rendere il suo esordio discografico un vero e proprio evento. A differenza di quanto normalmente avveniva per le opere prime, Takin Off (Blue Note Records) presenta solo composizioni originali, senza i canonici standard imposti ai debuttanti. Lungi dall'essere un comprimario, il ventiduenne pianista di Chicago è un ...

Album Review

Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Smiles

Read "Miles Smiles" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
July 2, 2016

Without a hint of a doubt, the trumpeter Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet which he led in the mid-'60s rekindled his fire for music resulting in exuberant and adventurous music. Davis was reenergized by his young band which vitality and enthusiasm has made a big difference. Not only did it stretch Miles' boundaries, as the band was taking chances and experimenting, but it also helped him get through a difficult period in his personal life (the deaths of his parents, ...

My Blue Note Obsession

Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child – 1968

by Marc Davis
November 24, 2015

Speak Like a Child feels like the mash-up of two separate albums. One is a lyrical set of three tunes--mellow songs with childhood themes. The other is a standard set of three bop tunes. Both are nice, but the quieter songs are maybe a bit too tame. Give Herbie Hancock credit for trying something new. He wrote all the tunes. Speak Like a Child is his sixth Blue Note record, and much of it sounds unlike his previous ...

Book Review

Possibilities - L'autobiografia

by Angelo Leonardi
September 8, 2015

Possibilities -L'autobiografia Herbie Hancock con Lisa Dickey 366 Pagine ISBN: 978-88-7521-667-2 Minimum Fax 2015 Da mezzo secolo Herbie Hancock è un protagonista del jazz e di generi popolari come funk, rock, rap, pop e reciproche commistioni. È il musicista che più ogni altro ha scorazzato nelle nuove tecnologie, raggiungendo successi di vendita planetari e diventando un divo della musica statunitense, vincitore di quattordici Grammy Awards. Nonostante questo non ha mai interrotto il ...

Live Review

Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea at the Philadelphia Academy of Music

by Victor L. Schermer
April 17, 2015

Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea Academy of Music Philadelphia, PA April 11, 2015 Pianists Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea are mega-multi-Grammy winning jazz legends, with active careers spanning over half a century. In the 1960s, they contributed to the post-bop revolution in jazz, and have been involved in almost all the developments since then, whether hard bop or jazz fusion, and specifically for Hancock, modal jazz, funk, and R&B; and for Corea, Latin, avant ...