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Chance Meeting
Friday April 12th, 2024 with Heavy Ben
Herbie Hancock

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 (to embiggen the show icon, right-click and choose "Open image in new tab")
Cycles
Robert Fisher - Fusions - Parry Music Library - 1984 Canadian
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 Canadian
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
Interactive CKCU
Neil & The Dancing Labrador
Great looking tribute to one of America's music legends.

9:23 AM, April 12th, 2024
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hey Neil, hope the Labrador dances to Herbie

3:05 PM, April 12th, 2024
Bobby Calzone p
Right on! Funky groove, good followup to where i left off this morning with Sean and the prog-jazzy synth thing! O.s. how is Deake,anyway, Neil?

3:25 PM, April 12th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
sorry i have this funky autocorrect french thing going: P.S. How is Drake anyway Neil?

3:27 PM, April 12th, 2024
Robert p
Hey heavy Ben. Thanks.

3:31 PM, April 12th, 2024
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hey Bobby, thanks for grooving along. Sean put on a fine show this morning, hm?

3:34 PM, April 12th, 2024
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hi Robert! Thanks to Sir Hancock for the music....

3:36 PM, April 12th, 2024
Candace
heya Heavy Ben, happy Friday!

3:43 PM, April 12th, 2024
Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Greetings all. I was drawn away on a phone call. .Drake 's recovery from surgery is going much better than his first week. One more week and stitches come ouit whoo hoo!!! He has had to settle for "paw tapping" to the beat and rythmns. And yes he loves Herbie H. Thx for asking Bobby!!

3:47 PM, April 12th, 2024
Neil & DL
And you too, Ben!! Happy Friday Candace!!!! Reving up for the Candy!

3:49 PM, April 12th, 2024
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hey Candace! Happy "shopping"

3:50 PM, April 12th, 2024
Candace
thanks!! enjoyed the show

3:51 PM, April 12th, 2024