Blog about new Herbie Hancock Mwandishi book

[bobgluck]

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.

[ghost of miles]

Hey Bob, welcome, thanks for posting this here; I tweeted/Facebooked a link to your blog not long ago. What's the story with the "lost album" that's supposedly coming out in some form? (In the big Herbie Columbia box, perhaps?)

[phunkey]

Hey Bob, welcome, thanks for posting this here; I tweeted/Facebooked a link to your blog not long ago. What's the story with the "lost album" that's supposedly coming out in some form? (In the big Herbie Columbia box, perhaps?)

Sorry to revive this old thread, but I only stumbled across it now and am curious about the Mwandishi 'lost album' remark - more info please!! The big Columbia box will probably never happen by the way, at least it's been put on hold indefinitely.

[mikeweil]

Any news about the book?

In Topic: NDR Jazz Workshop Discography/archive?

22 September 2011 - 07:22 PM

..... (previous one, coming out in July, was about Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band).

Is that July, 2011?

[mikeweil]

I see from your blog it's July, 2012 - can't wait!