sun 19.1.

21:00 Headhunters A Tribute to Herbie Hancock

I shoot the ********* a fierce look but he just stretches out under the ***** piano and turns his cassette recorder on to record everything. When he's finally finished, we're already three-quarters of the way through the piece and he still hasn't played anything. That's why the piano's missing on so many live-recordings. Miles Davis

Herbie Hancock -- universal master of sound, resident of many parallel musical worlds & present orchestrator of musical crash-landings -- defined the headhunter's funk energy as the sum of contrapuntal riff-layering and constant repetition. Chameleon or Sly: a battle of riffs between the bass, guitar and keyboard, repeated over&over again, first to your delight, then over&over some more, until you eventually dry up by virtue of this commercially-successful revolution, with its stylized dance music, which has not managed to break away from the psychedelically-vague spirit of the early 1970s.. (LT)

The Herbie Hancock Group: Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson, Harvey Mason, Bill Summers. Columbia 471239, recorded 1973

Admission: ATS ???.-


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