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I am looking for info about (dates, a recording, video...) of Circle (Chick Corea, Barry Altschul, Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton) with the NDR big band. Anyone with ideas or info? Working on a new book (previous one, coming out in July, was about Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band). Thanks.

Talking about the Left Bank Jazz Society tapes... some others were noted, I think by David Weiss. "Max Roach with Charles Tolliver and Odean Pope; Art Blakey with Curtis Fuller back in the band with Woody Shaw 6/1/69; Lee Morgan with Billy Higgins subbing for Freddie Waits 1/24/71; Art Blakey with three tenor players Ramon Morris, Buddy Terry and Denny Marouse? 4/9/72; Art Blakey with Dizzy Reece 1/21/73; Elvin Jones with Hank Jones and Azar Lawrence and Steve Grossman 4/1/73." I'm trying to put an exact date on a show played by Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi band during Spring or Summer 1971. Is there a way to access the post-1967 list of shows and find out this information? This was the night when Bennie Maupin first played with the band.

A new book in progress by Bob Gluck traces the evolution of Herbie Hancock's music through 1973, focusing on the Mwandishi band. The title is: “You’ll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band” (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Gluck’s new blog discusses the most poignant issues that have arisen in the process of writing the book, which should be out in a year. The blog may be found at: http://bobgluck.wordpress.com. Herbie Hancock has always followed his own muse. During the Mwandishi period, 1970-1973, his muse included a group of like-minded, intensely creative fellow musicians. Mwandishi band represented the ripening of Hancock’s Sextet, his first touring ensemble as a bandleader. It became the experimental laboratory where he first integrally joined the core musical elements that would form the building blocks that has served his musical creativity throughout his career. His rhythmic sensibilities, lyricism, use of abstraction, imaginative approach to timbre, fascination with electronics, and risk taking first come together in a mature, integrated manner in this context. The results were three years of deeply personal and expressive music that transcended boundaries. Bob Gluck is author is musician, educator, and writer.

A new book in progress by Bob Gluck traces the evolution of Herbie Hancock's music through 1973, focusing on the Mwandishi band. The title is: “You’ll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band” (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Gluck’s new blog discusses the most poignant issues that have arisen in the process of writing the book, which should be out in a year. The blog may be found at: http://bobgluck.wordpress.com. Herbie Hancock has always followed his own muse. During the Mwandishi period, 1970-1973, his muse included a group of like-minded, intensely creative fellow musicians. Mwandishi band represented the ripening of Hancock’s Sextet, his first touring ensemble as a bandleader. It became the experimental laboratory where he first integrally joined the core musical elements that would form the building blocks that has served his musical creativity throughout his career. His rhythmic sensibilities, lyricism, use of abstraction, imaginative approach to timbre, fascination with electronics, and risk taking first come together in a mature, integrated manner in this context. The results were three years of deeply personal and expressive music that transcended boundaries. Bob Gluck is author is musician, educator, and writer.