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xps My partner's in grad school and sometimes gets student discount offers for various events around NYC. Hancock's Lincoln Center/David Geffen Hall show popped up as one last fall. I almost forgot about it until this past week when it showed up on our calendar and I forgot we maximized the deal by getting front row seats. I've never seen Hancock this close and it was REALLY close - the guy next to me joked it was like sitting in coach on an airplane because the stage was inches from our feet. So good - the only downside was they were allotted just 90 minutes and they've been playing a full two hours everywhere else, so the set did feel a bit truncated. (Hancock actually wrapped up the penultimate number after checking his watch and telling us through his vocoder that "I'm sorry but we only have five minutes left!") Regardless, if you've never seen them before (and my partner hadn't) definitely go, but FWIW, the setlist covers a lot of the same ground as their recent tours. At this point, I'd love to see an all-acoustic show partly to change things up.
― birdistheword, Friday, 29 March 2024 19:47 (one month ago) link
synth tones are nearly as bad as Zawinul's
You should ask yourself if this is the genre for you tbh
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 March 2024 20:40 (one month ago) link
Came across this brutal takedown by Peter Margasak🕸.
They were all brutal takedowns around then.
I’ve said this before, I just don’t think Herbie’s career was especially well understood for a long time, particularly by jazz critics who basically thought he just completely sold out and ditched jazz. I actually wrote a letter to The Wire that got published after
1+1 came out – not because I thought it was particularly brilliant but rather because I thought it drew conclusions about his career while ignoring the records that were only released in Japan. For instance, on Spotify you can now hear how
Dedication and
Directstep show him continuing to explore electronics, trio records with Carter and Williams show he hadn’t really abandoned jazz and with
Flood how Herbie clearly viewed it all part of some continuum.
While I wouldn’t say any of those records are on par with his best work for Blue Note, they’re way more interesting than he was given usually credit for at that point in his career. It’s less that there was some “dramatic drop-off” than he was just pursuing a number of paths and threads simultaneously – some commercial, some experimental and some straight ahead. Which I completely respect.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 30 March 2024 20:18 (one month ago) link
synth tones are nearly as bad as Zawinul'sYou should ask yourself if this is the genre for you tbh
I'd venture that all the big fusion keyboard players sounded better on organs and electric pianos than synths, at least for a few years, which is one reason why I like the Mwandishi stuff best.
I don't feel the same about the big name prog keyboardists, who tended to be equally tasteful or tasteless whatever instrument they played.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 1 April 2024 02:53 (one month ago) link