Today one of the many great recordings of the always inspiring Herbie Hancock. Wikipedia tells us that "Mr Hands"is the thirtieth album by Herbie Hancock. It features Jaco Pastorius on the track "4 A.M.," plus an all-synthesizer track, "Textures," performed entirely by Hancock. (...) This album was the first on which Hancock used a computer, this time an Apple II. He would continue his relationship with Apple Computer for many years. Appearently it was an overlooked album when it was released, this would be the last outing of "straight" electric jazz from Hancock for some time. In the 90's I got to know Herbie Hancock as the every smiling keytar player, his festival performances were all over the German tv then. Later I got into his always changing music. What amazes me about Herbie is that he plays so much different music, always searching new directories and still is always recognisable in his sounds and notes. He was one of the first to perform synthesizers on stage, when they had to be patched manually. He describes it in his - by the way- very entertaining autobiography "Possibilities" when he played his Fender Rhodes which was hooked up with some more electronical stuff. Mr Rhodes himself, who came to a show was not amused about "cannibalizing" his instrument. Later versions of Fender Rhodes pianos did have jack plug-ins, so appearently he was so shocked about the transformation of his dear instrument, that he changed it so no incisions would have to made..
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - Today one of the many great recordings of the always inspiring Herbie Hancock.Wikipedia tells us that Mr Handsis the thirtieth album by Herbie Hancock. It features Jaco Pastorius on the track 4 A.M., plus an all-synthesizer track, Textures, performed entirely by Hancock. (...) This album was the first on which Hancock used a computer, this time an Apple II. He would continue his relationship with Apple Computer for many years. Appearently it was an overlooked album when it was released, this would be the last outing of straight electric jazz from Hancock for some time. In the 90's I got to know Herbie Hancock as the every smiling keytar player, his festival performances were all over the German tv then. Later I got into his always changing music.What amazes me about Herbie is that he plays so much different music, always searching new directories and still is always recognisable in his sounds and notes. He was one of the first to perform synthesizers on stage, when they had to be patched manually. He describes it in his - by the way- very entertaining autobiography Possibilities when he played his Fender Rhodes which was hooked up with some more electronical stuff. Mr Rhodes himself, who came to a show was not amused about cannibalizing his instrument. Later versions of Fender Rhodes pianos did have jack plug-ins, so appearently he was so shocked about the transformation of his dear instrument, that he changed it so no incisions would have to made..
