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20 minutes ago, Dmitry said:

Someone should ask him if King Cobra was titled so because of his then brand new ride...

 

According to the liner notes, it is partially about that:

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"Hancock wrote 'King Cobra' because he was tired of the same chord progressions. "The chord in most jazz tunes flow in a certain way," he explains. "I wanted to expand the flow so that it would go in directions beyond the usual." The harmony builds tension, representing the cobra with its latent striking power. (Cobra is also the type of sports car that Herbie owns).

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Publishing, baby, publishing.

Donald Byrd was schooling people to own their own publishing, not go for the old "label gets the publishing" model.

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Aries Music - that means that Herbie got all of his no matter who played it.Not just composer money, but publishing money right there with it. Hello ownership!

Horace Silver was already doing this, and Lion would not do it for just everybody (in fact he dropped Horace Parlan over a dispute over Ronnie Boykins not giving up his publishing and Horace being n Boykins' side). But Herbie had leverage, Wayne had leverage, a few people had leverage.

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20 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Publishing, baby, publishing.

Donald Byrd was schooling people to own their own publishing, not go for the old "label gets the publishing" model.

R-1907708-1477897342-4043.jpeg.jpg

Aries Music - that means that Herbie got all of his no matter who played it.Not just composer money, but publishing money right there with it. Hello ownership!

Horace Silver was already doing this, and Lion would not do it for just everybody (in fact he dropped Horace Parlan over a dispute over Ronnie Boykins not giving up his publishing and Horace being n Boykins' side). But Herbie had leverage, Wayne had leverage, a few people had leverage.

Makes me wonder if Gene Harris got the memo and had the leverage or not ... 

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