Bright Moments

Uncle Chuck can we get this from you? If so I want to order it with the new Vonski!

happy birthday!!

happy birthday!!!

or herbie hancock!

happy birthday!!!

wow somebody should grab this fast! I love mine!!!

happy birthday!!!

Happy Birthday!!!!

You sure got me there. Did you really go through all of my old posts to dig this up?? all in good fun!

What is this? either a joke or i am really "out of touch!"

if i were a mean person i might point out the inconsistency in your recent and prior posts. but i am not such a person!

the office season 5 i love this show!

OMG how did i miss this!!! watermelon man is harmonically identical to polkadots and moonbeams!! my bad!

thanks in advance!!!

Well, you got the early OP influence right... I think where everybody's going off track, though, is looking for just one or two guys as being "the" ones who opened things up harmonically, when the truth is there was a whole bunch of people looking at different approaches to tonality. If you "study music" in an ongoing fashion, sooner or later you're gonna go there. indeed!

please somebody help!!!!

ok jim - thanks for telling me with love! (surely i'm not ALL wrong though!)

I've always had "signatures" turned off in my board settings. Never understood the point or the appeal. hijack! hijack!!!!!

i was waiting for that! start your own poll!!!

The perverse, music critic in me asks: Isn't all of Hancocks' playing in the Plugged Nickel set, ballad playing? that is not what he is known for (i play ballads too - but thats not what i'm known for either! )

herbie is not known for his ballads. As a piano player, I can truthfully say that from a harmonic standpoint, Evans opened more doors for me that any other jazz pianist, before or after. what doors are you talking about? I think that Bill Evans, more than probably any single pianist, stands as a pivotal figure between the bop and post-bop players and the modal and more experimental players of the 60s, who I referenced previously. while i adore evans - i believe that george russell more accurately fits this bill.

Didn't know it was an attack. Harmonically, Herbie wouldn't exist without Evans. OP had nothing to offer in that area. well the herbie hancock website states: Beginnings: Early Life and the Miles Davis Quintet Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the tender age of 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. Herbie's webpage FWIW i think evans was a genius - but just because herbie cites him as an influence doesn't mean that he sounds anything like him. and using your line of reasoning uncle chuck - if there wasn't an art tatum there wouldn't be an evans!!!!

instead of making an ad hominum attack uncle chuck - tell me where you find fault in my post. Ten years in music is huge. which proves the point as to the complete lack in similarities between hancock and evans!

and FWIW evans was only about 10 years older than herbie - hardly the "next generation".

What say you all?