Home » Search Center » Results: Herbie Hancock
Results for "Herbie Hancock"
Herbie Hancock/V.S.O.P.: Live Under the Sky
by John Kelman
There are a number of revelations on this remastered reissue of pianist Herbie Hancock and the V.S.O.P. quintet's Live Under the Sky , but two are essential. The first comes about eight bars into the first track on the first disc. The thought? How much drummer Tony Williams is truly missed. Sure, there are drummers out ...
Herbie Hancock: Thrust
by Ester Eggert
The 21st Century has arrived and this album has reached the new generation. One can draw lines to the '70s, when jazz, rock, funk, soul and African rhythms started to mix in the United States. We noticed this process during the '90s. With this notice we started to understand where the roots of groove ...
A Fireside Chat with Herbie Hancock
by AAJ Staff
Violinist Eyvind Kang, in John Zorn's Arcana, explains, “Music isn't dead, but held captive, kept prisoner within a parade of falsely glamourized forms. Like a corpse which has been overly made up, the forms are glamourized to the point where music is no longer recognizable." It was not always thus. And even today, in remote corners, ...
Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane
by John Kelman
What a difference twenty years can make. Compare pianist Herbie Hancock's recent collaboration with Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland and Brian Blade with this DVD release of a 1984 Swiss concert featuring bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Cobham, and the most notable and refreshing quality is that of growth and evolution. Of course Hancock has demonstrated ...
Herbie Hancock: Vive La Difference
by Nic Jones
The emphasis on Miles Davis's 1960s quintet as a role model for musicians in the present day has ensured perhaps that Herbie Hancock's move away from that band's style has been overlooked. The two albums discussed here encapsulate how his musical outlook changed. The move from acoustic to predominantly electric instrumentation is profound enough in itself, ...
Herbie Hancock: Future Shock
by Trevor MacLaren
Herbie Hancock Future Shock Columbia 1983 As with Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come , the title Future Shock says it all. With this record Herbie Hancock busted open jazz in a way that no one could have expected. It may have taken ten or twenty years for ...
Herbie Hancock: (New) Directions Included
by R.J. DeLuke
Herbie Hancock is one of the remaining legends of jazz, but he is not going to be pigeonholed in that jazz “box." He likes change, he said in an October conversation, and wishes more of the younger generation of jazz musicians had the same attitude, though he admits they don't. At least not like ...
Social Skills
by AAJ Staff
We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...
A Fireside Chat With Herbie Hancock
by AAJ Staff
To know Miles Davis is to know Herbie Hancock. Herbie, having been a member of Miles' infamous quintet with Tony Williams, Ron Carter, and Wayne Shorter, is required reading. But long before I was casually interested in improvised music, I knew Herbie. You see, being a member of Gen-X that grew up on daily feedings of ...
