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Haven't posted here a lot at all as I tried to mainly listen and take in all of the information I can possibly get from all the experienced members... I don't like tinkering a lot anyhow. Listening music is what I like.Finishing up in the background is Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, a personal favourite of mine, and a record I've been trying to acquire in a good condition for a while now. I put in a lot of effort into locating one - but what I am listening to right now makes it all worth it.
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I missed his early stuff but when Fusion was the rage I realy liked these two especially Mr Hands. Wish I still had them.
Funk Jazz. A new concept at the time.
I'm into old fusion anyway.
Just a matter of taste, but I gave up on him around Headhunters. I like his earlier work with Blue Note and Miles. I also like Fat Albert Rotunda, his initial foray into funk. He is still an amazingly good musician, and I've seen him perform more "traditionally" on recent TV and video.If you only know him from the funk/mechanical music phase, also listen to his "Empyrean Isles", "Speak Like A Child", or his work with Bobby Hutcherson on "Oblique" and "Happenings".
For me it's difficult when a player I love changes style to something I can't get into. George Benson also comes to mind... loved his early real jazz work, up into "White Rabbit", and "The Other Side of Abbey Road". His version of Take Five on "In Concert - Carnegie Hall" is a killer. Now, to me, he's more pop and not very jazzy. Still has nice chops of course.
He had looks and talent and definitely, as far as I'm concerned, sold out. But in today's music world he would have killed with those looks...at least my wife thought so when I was going through the collection the other day..."Who's that? He's hot!"But today you don't need talent, just looks...maybe his talent would have ruined it for him.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
saw them around 1974\5 in Princeton. Fantastic. Herbie was electric but Bernie Maupin nearly stole the show. To get a taste of their live performance ability look for the original two-album set "Herbie Hancock - V.S.O.P. (Very Special Onstage Performance). One side is an augmented Head Hunters group and boy do the cook.
Saw him on a very well produced Public TV HD show in 5.1. The Music recording was not all that hot, but watching many of the living Jazz greats working with new Jazz artists was really touching.Soft Jazz just doesn't do it for me. I want to see a Jazz resurgance instead of all this rap crap.
Except I'm no Jazz purist, I'm eclectic as hell! But “An Evening with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock in concert” Columbia PC2 35633 is really a bit different. You may enjoy it tremendously.At that time, Chick was beginning to get back into a sort of bop sound and examining his heritage (listen to "My Spanish Heart" Polydor PD2-9003). The collaboration of two pianists that had been at the heart of fusion shows them in a light that's very different from what they had done in the last few years (back in the 70's). The LP exposes their listeners to each of their weaknesses and strengths; Herbie has a stronger left hand, Corea's sense of timing is, to me, a bit more interesting.
I'm being summoned by the boss for dinner, sees yuz!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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Like all good musicians, herbie was at his peak when he was on drugs.His piano work is extraoridinary for sure, but give me the funk!
If you want an unblievable live show of the Headhunters right after their self-titled album was released, look for the Ivanhoe Theatre Show in Chicago from the mid 80's. Its an FM radio show, the quality is outstanding...
watermelon man, vein splitter - a great live show cd available legally online for free.
Maybe you should consult the musicians on this one. I don't think any of them ever thought they did better on drugs. Certainly, they didn't play better dead.
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I really like him. I bought a few lots of jazz LP's and one of my favorites now is The Quintet VSOP w/ Herbie and George Benson. I also dig him with Miles Davis back in the Bitches Brew era.
Isn't he the guy that did Rockit/Future Shock? What's this I keep hearing about some jazz piano catalog of his? ;-)
Then I saw him live with Pat Metheny. He can really play. Blew me away.
Jeff TOJ
...it was Rockit initially that turned me onto Herbie Hancock.
...that no one hear has even HEARD of this guy. what does he play? what has he done in the last 45 years?
You should check him out if you like jazz or funk. He's an icon in that genre. He started at the age of 20 in the 60's with Donald Byrd, then was a member of the Miles Davis' Quintet. He then blossomed as a jazz group leader with albums on Blue Note, then grew into a world renowned jazz-fun artist. He's constantly re-invented and explored new territory.Here's a quote about what he's doing recently:
"His latest studio project, Possibilities, released in August 2005 is aptly named, as it consists of an even wider-ranging collection of sounds and styles than his previous collaborative works. For Possibilities, Herbie teamed with established artists such as Sting, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Paul Simon and Carlos Santana, as well as serious up-and-comers like Joss Stone and Damien Rice. Also in 2005, Herbie re-staffed his famed Headhunters ensemble with a host of notable names such as guitarists John Mayer and Lionel Loueke, bassist Marcus Miller, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, trumpeter Roy Hargrove and percussionist Munyungo Jackson to play a number of concert dates in the summer."
well, whaddya know??? i just checked my shelf and have mono or stereo originals of all his LPs on blue note!!(sorry... my previous post was tongue-in-cheek as i thought it would be pretty obvious that many folks here (me included) think of herbie as one of the most talented jazz/funk musicians.)
But then, I know a lot of things that I used to know. The thing is that knowing things can be frustrating when you don't remember knowing those things, so by forgetting that you know things, you never knew those things in the first place. Or, for that matter, in the second place...wherever that is.It is my goal to make people's minds explode.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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It's fun, but it is definitely mind-blowing.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
I don't know what it is, not an original, but the sound is horrible, I can't listen to it.
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