Jazz for aficionados

So, you got me reading about Herbie Hancock. Yeesh. Talk about prolific. Not to mention Wiki says he graduated from Grinnell College with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music. Maybe the EE degree explains the cover of Headhunters a little.

A little over a decade before HH there was this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J5riMnfsj0&ab_channel=HerbieHancock-Topic

...and 12 years later, THIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VN8zH366M8&ab_channel=MacFalko

This might be the best video ever posted to this thread!  Kidding of course - but it is a pretty great performance.

By the way -
Have you discussed Freddie Hubbard much on this thread? (It’s all new to me...more or less). What a sweet sounding trumpet...more so in ’62 than in ’85. But his ’85 solo really is killer.

Ghosthouse, Hancock is a giant and still going strong.  He can play credibly in just about any genre including Classical; and as you say, very prolific.  "squawking chicken", that's very funny and I can see (hear) why that came to mind.  But, that's some funky chicken!  You're correcf, it's clavinet.  I kinda like it.  My guess is that it's an overdub by Herbie of the repetitive syncopated rhythm; works for me.  The "reedy sounding instrument" is Bennie Maupin's soprano saxophone.  Very funky player with a rough-around-the-edges tone but great feel.  His tenor and bass clarinet are very good also.  Enjoyed the clavinet retrospecrive; thanks.

I posted Herbie's "Takin Off" recently, but was not aware of any alternate takes; thanks for that.  Freddie Hubbard is probably my favorite trumpet player.  Check out Oliver Nelson's "Blues And The Abstract Truth" for what I think is one of the best trumpet solos on record.  You may find this interesting:

http://www.afka.net/Articles/1995-01_Tmershi_Duween.htm

F - Enjoyed reading those Santana comments.  What a gracious, humble person (at least based on that).  I'll have to try and find out what the Zappa Dylan-parody is about.  Didn't know about that.

Hmm... soprano sax.  That explains a few things.  Not my favorite instrument (if I might opine) but bass clarinet - we love it's tone.  

Time and place for many things.  So I wanted to go back and hear Hancock's earlier stuff which led to Takin' Off (also saved in Spotify, Maiden Vogage and Empyrean Isles).  What a different feel from HH has T.O.!  

Being somewhat hit and miss on this Aficionado thread, your earlier post of T'.O. was missed.  The alternate take at that link is one of 3 "extra" tracks on the Rudy Van Gelder re-issue.  Has seemed to me that higher frequencies get way to much emphasis in "typical" remasters making things sound unpleasantly bright.  Not so with the Van Gelder reissues.  I love the spaciousness of his recordings.  He definitely knew what he was about in the studio. 

re FH - 
Blues & The Abstract Truth duly noted.  What a lineup!  Bill Evans & Eric Dolphy too.  Will definitely have to check that out.

I do remember people talking about Red Clay when that came out (might be repeating myself).  Being late to the jazz party as it were, knew his name but not much else.  His soloing in that Blue Note concert video is just INsane!  I'd like to know, at the very end, what they are kind of laughing about.  He has an almost apologetic look on his face as he turns to Joe Henderson after the finish.  The ending on his second solo is a little (anti-climactic?) if not down right odd.  Hancock is kind of laughing a little too.  

That 1985 Blue Note Concert is available as DVD.  Will give serious consideration to purchasing it.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_with_Blue_Note

https://www.amazon.com/One-Night-Blue-Note-Historic/dp/B0000DZ3HM

Okay...blathered on a good bit here.  

Orpheus - apologies if I'm just trampling ground already well-ploughed. Hope not.  

@inna - thanks for those links. Have listened to Jesse Cook's "Gravity" a bit.  If you like him at all, do check out the Carles Benavent "Quartet"...a little more jazz inflected than Cook's stuff but shares the flamenco influence.

Shawn Lane! Who knew? Not me. Totally new name. Will have to read up on him and see what he's recorded.

By the way, are you familiar with Soft Machine. In the quest for an M. Orch substitute, it struck me there's a remote change they'd be of interest. Maupin's soprano sax solo reminded me. Here's a track from S.M. 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3fQzhdgZY&ab_channel=riversend21

Ghosthouse, the "Bluenote" DVD is new to me. Any time you add something new to this thread, you are becoming a true "Aficionado".

I'm glad you are discovering new music to add to your collection, that's what this thread is about.


Enjoy the music.