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Post by monasterymonochrome on Mar 8, 2024 12:25:37 GMT -6
Well I finally went and did it. In anticipation of seeing Herbie Hancock headline Big Ears in two weeks, here's an 8-hour rundown of his career highlights (that I've heard so far). Features plenty of his solo material, and also tons of his work as a sideman. Kept sideman cuts to one per-album, but some of the solo stuff has multiple tracks.
Also tried to keep it generally in chronological order, but don't hold me to it. So yeah, throw it on shuffle. Or listen along and hear the evolution of one of music's greatest pianists/composers. Either way - enjoy!
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Apr 4, 2024 9:25:35 GMT -6
 Twice this week I've thrown this one on past 10pm, had a little bit of vermouth, and read some Raymond Carver short stories. I'm living my best 55-year old man in 1990 life. |
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Post by krentist on Apr 4, 2024 9:27:54 GMT -6
What vermouth are you sipping
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Apr 4, 2024 9:30:52 GMT -6
What vermouth are you sipping Casa Mariol Vermut Negre - I know little/nothing about spirits but they were giving out samples of this at a store I was shopping in a lil bit ago and it was v. good |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Apr 4, 2024 10:55:38 GMT -6
Twice this week I've thrown this one on past 10pm, had a little bit of vermouth, and read some Raymond Carver short stories. I'm living my best 55-year old man in 1990 life. i bought this on vinyl last friday and spun it for the first time last night. funny. |
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Post by krentist on Apr 4, 2024 11:18:33 GMT -6
What vermouth are you sipping Casa Mariol Vermut Negre - I know little/nothing about spirits but they were giving out samples of this at a store I was shopping in a lil bit ago and it was v. good I've had it and it's good. I like Axa and because I'm a big time dago I get Punt E Mes or Cocchi sometimes. My favorite, and it's a splurge, is this one since it doesn't taste like anything else imo: www.bittersandbottles.com/products/varnelli-dellerborista-amaroOccasionally I have talked bartenders into doing comped pours of it when I see it on the shelf and pique their curiosity. But you gotta play dumb. |
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Post by teekoh on Apr 4, 2024 11:32:18 GMT -6
What vermouth are you sipping Casa Mariol Vermut Negre - I know little/nothing about spirits but they were giving out samples of this at a store I was shopping in a lil bit ago and it was v. good This is my favorite. Excellent choice. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jun 10, 2024 6:36:48 GMT -6
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Post by nanatod on Aug 28, 2024 18:13:35 GMT -6
82 year old pianist Amina Claudine Myers plays the Cultural Center tomorrow night as part of the first day of the Chicago Jazz Festival, and we're planning to go to this, because I could not find her in the jazz shows part of the trapper keeper [although there was a lot of other jazz shows seen that I had forgotten about]. Plus the Halal Guys is (are?) a block away for dinner right before.
And 83 year old trumpeter Eddie Henderson is on Sunday's schedule at Pritzker Pavilion.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 28, 2024 18:18:34 GMT -6
82 year old pianist Amina Claudine Myers plays the Cultural Center tomorrow night as part of the first day of the Chicago Jazz Festival, and we're planning to go to this, because I could not find her in the jazz shows part of the trapper keeper [although there was a lot of other jazz shows seen that I had forgotten about]. Plus the Halal Guys is (are?) a block away for dinner right before. And 83 year old trumpeter Eddie Henderson is on Sunday's schedule at Pritzker Pavilion. Saw Eddie as part of the Charlie Parker jazz fest here last summer. He was with his group The Cookers, basically an old-heads supergroups (Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Billy Harper), and Eddie was the most impressive IIRC. Would recommend! |
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Post by nanatod on Aug 28, 2024 18:36:47 GMT -6
Harper has his own group play Friday, and while looking in the tk, I saw that he had played at least 3 Chicago Jazz festivals, all w/ the late Malachi Thompson, and Hart was part of someone else's set early on (pre-1995, I think).
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Post by jazzpolice on Aug 28, 2024 18:42:33 GMT -6
How do you do, fellow jazz-heads?
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Post by nanatod on Aug 29, 2024 21:04:34 GMT -6
82 year old pianist Amina Claudine Myers plays the Cultural Center tomorrow night as part of the first day of the Chicago Jazz Festival, and we're planning to go to this, because I could not find her in the jazz shows part of the trapper keeper [although there was a lot of other jazz shows seen that I had forgotten about]. TIL she played piano for the late Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra performance one year at the Chicago Jazz Festival, but Haden had a different pianist with him when I saw him and aLiberation Music Orchestra performance during a different, prior, year at the Chicago Jazz Festival. |
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Post by nanatod on Sept 1, 2024 19:41:09 GMT -6
And 83 year old trumpeter Eddie Henderson is on Sunday's schedule at Pritzker Pavilion. Saw Eddie as part of the Charlie Parker jazz fest here last summer. He was with his group The Cookers, basically an old-heads supergroups (Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Billy Harper), and Eddie was the most impressive IIRC. Would recommend! his band this late afternoon was him, Donald Harrison on sax, George Cables on piano, Gerald Cannon on bass, and Mike Clark on drums. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 4, 2024 9:24:42 GMT -6
    Ran into a dude at Phish fest with a CTI Records shirt on and chatted with him for a few minutes while we waited in the merch line. Got me wanting to take a closer look at that record's classic output, which I've been working on this week. Wes Montgomery was CTI's first release, when Creed Taylor's label was still a subsidiary of A&M. A guitar jazz giant, but one who I've had trouble really connecting with. The title track here is a classic version and is wonderful, but I've lost focus both times I've tried the rest of the record. Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay is a stone-cold killer tho. I first checked it out when doing my Herbie Hancock run this winter, but didn't fully appreciate how awesome this record is. The title track has an all-time great bassline, the full band playing kills, the melodies are lovely, and the John Lennon cover at the end works as a surprisingly great solo/jamming launchpad. Deodato's Prelude was the highest selling record in the CTI oeuvre, thanks to his version/arrangement of "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" being a surprise Top 5 hit. Phish fans will find this one familiar - and I suppose that was the CTI connection re: that dude's shirt. Rest of the record didn't grab me tho, too much focus on the string arrangements than I was feeling. And finally the Joe Farrell record Moon Germs absolutely fucks. First time listen for me and I'm psyched to go back to it again today. The bassline on "Great Gorge" was one of the coolest I've heard maybe ever? S/o Stanley Clarke - I really need to see that dude in person soon. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 4, 2024 10:11:57 GMT -6
Red clay is soooo good
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 4, 2024 12:12:17 GMT -6
More CTI greatness courtesy of Joe Farrell. I checked out his 1972 record Outback feat. Chick Corea and Elvin Jones, which was really good but not as engaging as his work in Return to Forever or Moon Germs. Then I turned to 1974's Upon the Rock and holy shit, this is a whole nother beast. Farrell is crushing it throughout the album, often on his flute more than sax. But the star of the show is guitarist Joe Beck. Dude was SHREDDING here. I stankfaced on literally every track - I mean, godDAMN! Dude is basically playing thrash metal on opener "Weathervane," and gives us a glimpse of what Jimi might've been up to circa '74 on the title track. Title track just fuckin' grooves too. Famously sampled numerous times for its opening drum break ("Verses from the Abstract," "Gone") - in fact, Joe's estate had to sue for royalties in the case of the latter. Give the track a listen, it's fucking crazy.
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