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Hancock was just 22 when he wrote “Watermelon Man,” a danceable song with an infectious melodic hook and jaunty, see-saw backbeat. It was inspired by his childhood memory of a watermelon ...
Herbie Hancock - Thrust Frank Zappa & the Mothers - Roxy & Elsewhere Return To Forever Featuring Chick Corea - Where Have I Known You Before Jan Hammer & Jerry Goodman - Like Children Stanley Clarke - S/T Hans Koller & Wolfgang Dauner- Kunstkopfindianer Stan Getz - Captain Marvel 1975
2 days ago · Our Song of the Day comes from an album made by a similarly all-star ensemble. Parallel Realities, released in 1990, was a fusion album featuring DeJohnette in the company of the top artists of the day: guitarist Pat Metheny and keyboardist Herbie Hancock. Its opening cut, “Jack In,” is a majestic original composition by DeJohnette that ...
2 days ago · Jazz icon Herbie Hancock performed this week in Tangiers at the end of a four-day jazz festival he launched more than a decade ago, telling AFP the genre is all about unity and diversity.
5 days ago · Herbie Hancock (1940–) A multi-award winning pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer, Hancock has experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles. He's also scored a number of ...
2 days ago · by Matt Micucci. “One O’Clock Jump” was composed by Count Basie in 1937, in collaboration with saxophonist Buster Smith and arranger Eddie Durham. Basie had been a member of a band led by pianist Benny Moten for several years. When Moten died in 1935, Basie took over the band and developed it as his own.
3 days ago · In defence of the vocoder, the technology was also embraced by funk pioneers, with Herbie Hancock using one to disguise his own singing voice. But thanks to the vocoder’s closeness to the sound of a talkbox, they are back in fashion within certain segments of pop and R&B.
