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Article: Compare & Contrast

Herbie Hancock: Vive La Difference

by Nic Jones
May 14, 2004

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, ...

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Article: Reassessing

Herbie Hancock: Future Shock

by Trevor MacLaren
April 9, 2004

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 ...

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Herbie Hancock: (New) Directions Included

by R.J. DeLuke
March 13, 2004

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 ...

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The Essential

By Herbie Hancock

Label: Sine Qua Non
Released: 2003

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Article: What is Jazz?

Social Skills

by AAJ Staff
February 3, 2003

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. ...

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A Fireside Chat With Herbie Hancock

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2003

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 ...

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