JAZZ'S ZUNE STASH MUSIC REVIEW
I have a treat treat for you. Whether you're a Jazz fan or a easy listening fan
Herbie Hancock's RIVER THE JONI LETTERS.
Hancock has stretched the fabric of his Jazz carreer again. Like Miles Davis he's a musical exploreer. His lsst CD Possibilties launched a colaboration of artist that he put under his wings and created a musical tapastry in way only Hancock could. Doing the work of Joni Mitchell This time similiar but far more creative. 12 sensational tracks with guest like Nora Jones, Tina Turner, Leonard Cohen. Its a Jazz variety show. For sure a eargazim.
Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock, along with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Pablo Picasso, and other great artists of our time, share an incessant and profound creative restlessness. They each have always had the desire and need to break fresh ground with each note played or stroke of the brush.
It was exactly this kind of curiosity which motivated Davis to hire Hancock in 1963 to be a part of, along with Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, arguably one of the most important groups of musicians of the twentieth century. It was in fact Miles who told Hancock to "never finish anything."
Hancock, like Joni Mitchell, has gone on to explore many different genres and mediums to express his incessant curiosity, working in the context of jazz, electronic music,
funk, orchestral, and film music.