Chance meeting on a keytar of inventions and dimensions
Happy 84th birthday to Herbie Hancock, born today in 1940 in Chicago. How to distill 4,000 credits over 60 years into an hour? Let's listen to one Hancock track from each decade, from the 1960s through the 2010s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Hancock
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Cycles Robert Fisher - Fusions - Parry Music Library - 1984 |
Blind Man, Blind Man Herbie Hancock feat. Grant Green, Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Grachan Moncur III, Chuck Israels, Anthony Williams - My Point Of View - Blue Note - 1963 |
Sleeping Giant Herbie Hancock feat. Julian Priester, Bennie Maupin, Eddie Henderson, Buster Williams, Billy Hart - Crossings - Warner Bros. - 1972 |
TFS Herbie Hancock feat. Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn - Future Shock - Columbia, CBS - 1983 |
The Melody (On The Deuce By 44) Herbie Hancock feat. Will "Roc" Griffin - Dis Is Da Drum - Mercury - 1994 |
Tea Leaf Prophecy Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell - River: The Joni Letters - Verve - 2007 |
Dolphin Dance Madlib (orig. Herbie Hancock) - Shades Of Blue - Blue Note - 2003 |
The Song Goes On Herbie Hancock feat. K.S. Chithra, Chaka Khan, Anoushka Shankar, Wayne Shorter - The Imagine Project - Hancock Records, Sony - 2010 |
Great looking tribute to one of America's music legends.
9:23 AM, April 12th, 2024