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Herbie's Take on Joni Mitchell, and the Value of Gigging
by Fradley Garner
Herbie Hancock, winner of the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy for River: The Joni Letters, took the stage with collaborator and inspiration Joni Mitchell when he taped a show for Nissan Live Sets that debuted April 1 on Yahoo! Music. Mitchell sang three of her songs, River," Tea Leaf Prophecy" and Hana." Hancock, backed by ...
Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni Letters
by George Kanzler
The participation of such former and present Grammy nominees and winners as Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza and Leonard Cohen (reading The Jungle Line" like a beat poet), as well as the iconic stature of Joni Mitchell herself, may have immeasurably helped in winning this CD the Grammy Album of the Year ...
A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy?
When something newsworthy or popular or positive happens to a jazz musician -- a big award, say -- many in the jazz world feel astonished for about four seconds, then quickly act very smug. You know: We've been sitting here patiently, full of our aesthetic virtue, so used to being ignored, and the world has finally ...
Grammy 2008 Big Winners: Winehouse, Kanye West and Herbie Hancock
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) - The 50 year-old Grammy Awards showed their age by giving jazz artist Herbie Hancock the Album of the Year awards. And they showed their spunk with naming troubled singer Amy Winehouse the biggest overall winner of the night with five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year and Best New ...
River: The Joni Letters
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: Court and Spark; Edith and the Kingpin; Both Sides Now; River; Sweet Bird; Tea Leaf
Propechy; Solitude; Amelia; Nefertiti; The Jungle Line.
Jazz to Funk
Label: AIM International
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Maulana; Baraka/Kamli; Kawanda, Dunia. CD2: Witch Fire; Jammin
Herbie Hancock Suprised by Album of the Year Grammy Nomination
By Gail Mitchell, L.A. Many artists interviewed after this morning's 2008 Grammy Awards announcement in Hollywood noted a diversity among the list of nominees. A clear example of this may have been the album of the year nomination for jazz veteran Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letter. Probably the most surprised was Hancock himself. Album of ...


