Mark Stryker Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kennedy-center-honors-gala-had-rapport-repartee-and-an-unusual-mix-of-collaborators/2013/12/09/ddd12e68-5ec6-11e3-be07-006c776266ed_print.htmlA Washington Post recap of the event from Saturday.Apparently Bill O'Reilly (really) did the presentation for Herbie Hancock. As far as the music was concerned, Chick Corea and Wayne Shorter played duets on "Walkin'" and "Watermelon Man" according to the report. The program will air on TV on Dec. 29.Coda: While Herbie and Wayne have played a lot in duet format, have Chick and Wayne done any duet playing outside of what may have happend in context of Miles' band. Moreover, have Chick and Wayne played/recorded together much (or at all) since Miles? Nothing coming to mind immediately but there must be something somewhere. Edited December 10, 2013 by Mark Stryker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted December 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 Here are President Obama's remarks about the honorees in the formal award ceremony. Some funny moments in the presentation to Herbie, which starts at about the 4:40 mark (but watch from beginning because the remarks about Martina Arroyo are nice too.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 Chick did a guest appearance on the track 'Mahogany Bird' from Wayne's Phantom Navigator record in 1987. It was not a duet track. Wayne and Chick also played 'Footprints' with Miles at the farewell concert in Paris on 7/10/91. This is all I know of, but it's possible that there was a one-off somewhere at some point since 1970. Last Sunday may well have been Wayne and Chick's first public duet ever. I was sorry I couldn't be there, but it's a very exclusive event. On the other hand, I really would not have wanted to see the rest of the show. It's too bad the idea of saying a word about Butch Warren before 'Watermelon Man' was played was not floated. Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 "Walkin'" and "Watermelon Man"? Really, THAT'S what gets played in tribute to Herbie? I'm sure we could all collectively come up with 10 tunes that made more sense than those two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disaac Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 RT: And I'm sure we could have come up with (literally) thousands of more people more appropriate to present Herbie than Bill O'Reilly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted December 10, 2013 Report Share Posted December 10, 2013 Wayne and Chick were followed by Snoop Doggy Dogg, or whatever he is calling himself. Of course, an obvious choice. At least O'Reilly did not rap along with Snoop. The mind shudders. Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 11, 2013 Report Share Posted December 11, 2013 Bill O'Reilly, Shirley MacLaine, Snoop Dogg, Billy Joel, Garth Brooks - that pretty much says it all for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Weiss Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Broadcast on CBS now. Bill O'Reilly? WTF? Edited December 30, 2013 by Michael Weiss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Shearn Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Wayne was killing on "Walkin" though, so was Kurt Edited December 30, 2013 by CJ Shearn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 O'Reilly was actually good - shocking, huh? I thought the whole performance was good, too. They covered a lot of ground on a short period of time. Of course seeing Chick, Dave, Jack, Terrence and Wayne together was awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 I enjoyed this too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milestones Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 The jazz stuff was decent enough. I never was big on Herbie in his funk/pop/r&b mode. Still, I could handle everything EXCEPT Snoop Dogg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milestones Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) On a side note, whatever happened to Hancock as a jazz composer? It seems pretty much relegated to the Blue Note period and possibly the early fusion days. The Hancock I've picked up over the last couple of decades almost entirely acts as "tribute": the Quintet and Quartet records, Gershwin's World, The New Standard, Directions in Music. These are all but devoid of his compositions, especially new ones. Edited December 30, 2013 by Milestones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeith Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 I enjoyed the broadcast immensely... but like others I am confused by the O"Reilly choice for Herbie... he did fine but those can't be Herbie's politics and O'Reilly is nothing if not political...l don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 it's...the sound of surprise! or zen, or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 garth brooks was amazing. ive never really heard him before, of course i know who he is...spectacular job, absolutely spectacular. "Walkin'?", i mean yes there is a slight herbie connection there....but certainily not the way -they- played it, lol. if they covered it "in the style of the plugged nickel", maybe i could see the relavence, but even then, slim. watermelon man? thats kinda what put herbie on the map, it made sense. yes butch warren should of been brought up, he just died this year. the snoop part, snoop kind of just like took his old songs and changed the lyrics to make them about herbie. the top highlight of the show was steve winwood singing 'everybody's everything'. whoever put this program together knew what they were doing. winwood was perfect for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 The part of me that gave half a damn was not reachable when this aired...what exactly did Bill O'Reily have to say about Herbie? If anybody answers, please accept my apologies in advance if the part of me that gives half a damn is not reachable for a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Here's video. Unfortunately it doesn't include the O'Reilly tribute section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Heeeeeeeeeeere's Bill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedR Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Doesn't the person being honored choose his/her presenter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Overall, the broadcast was more enjoyable that I'd expected (maybe I just have low expectations of such things). And given the songs that I'd heard reports of having been performed as part of Herbie's tribute -- I like what I heard a whole lot better than I'd expected (I was more than half expecting just Chick and Wayne to play Walkin' and Watermelon Man as just a duo -- which didn't sound like such a great idea). Walkin' was better than I'd expected, but still seemed like a weird choice. I guess Watermelon Man is his biggest early hit, but I've never liked to the tune that much (but the performance was a lot more interesting than it could have been. Anyone know who was the overall Music Director of the night's proceedings? -- the leader of the "house band" that night, so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 The part of me that gave half a damn was not reachable when this aired...what exactly did Bill O'Reily have to say about Herbie? If anybody answers, please accept my apologies in advance if the part of me that gives half a damn is not reachable for a few days. He talked about how "serene" Herbie is, and said he could use some of that. And what a gentleman he is, Bill didn't say but I think he could use some of that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 1, 2014 Report Share Posted January 1, 2014 Heeeeeeeeeeere's Bill! Thanks. That was actually perversely entertaining in an old-skool show-biz type way. I sometimes forget that O'Reilly first came into my awareness on Inside Edition, not in his political commentary and/or auto-parts empires. So, yeah, ok, he can schmooze by nature, I think, good for him, and good for Herbie, and good for all of that being there as an alternative to it not being there at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted January 1, 2014 Report Share Posted January 1, 2014 the top highlight of the show was steve winwood singing 'everybody's everything'. whoever put this program together knew what they were doing. winwood was perfect for that. Agreed 100% with Aric. Loved this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted January 2, 2014 Report Share Posted January 2, 2014 Rooster_Ties: the musical director/producer of Herbie's segment was Terence Blanchard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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