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The JAZZ thread...

Empyrean Isles, Maiden Voyage, Sextant, Headhunters and Thrust are the albums I heard and they’re wild. I’d say Headhunters is the most accessible and Sextant the weirdest. Last 3 are quite funky, first 2 are more old school jazz, it’s been a long time though, might remember it wrong.
 
Happy Birthday to Herbie Hancock (12 April 1940)

"Savage Content presents an exclusive interview with the legendary Herbie Hancock! Step into the world of his music, inspirations, and the profound influence of mentor Donald Byrd. Hear firsthand about his time alongside Miles Davis in his quintet."

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"Happy birthday to the great Herbie Hancock who was born on this day in 1940. As part of Miles Davis’s “second great quintet”, Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the “post-bop” sound.

He was also one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, Head Hunters, the first jazz album to reach platinum status.

Hancock’s best-known compositions include “Cantaloupe Island”, “Watermelon Man”, “Maiden Voyage”, and “Chameleon”, all of which are jazz standards. During the 1980s, he enjoyed a hit single with the electronic instrumental “Rockit”, a collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year the second jazz album to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.

Here, he is performing “Hang Up Your Hang Ups” with Bennie Maupin on flute and reeds, Wah Wah Watson on guitar, Paul Jackson on bass and James Levi on drums live in 1976. "

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“Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.”

Thelonious Monk


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Remembering Sammy Davis Jr

"In Remembrance of Sammy Davis Jr. who passed away on May 16, 1990 (aged 64) in Beverly Hills, California, USA.American singer, actor, comedian, and dancer Sammy Davis Jr. began his career at the age of two in Vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally, and his film career began in 1933. After military service, Davis returned to the trio and became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist. In 1954, at the age of 29, he lost his left eye in a car accident. In 1958, he faced a backlash for his involvement with a white woman at a time when interracial relationships were taboo in the U.S. and where interracial marriage was not legalised nationwide until 1967.

Davis had a starring role on Broadway in Mr. Wonderful with Chita Rivera (1956). In 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film Ocean's 11. He returned to the stage in 1964 in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Davis was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance. The show featured the first interracial kiss on Broadway. In 1966, he had his own TV variety show, The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. While Davis's career slowed in the late 1960s, his biggest hit, “The Candy Man”, reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1972, and he became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname “Mister Show Business”.

After reuniting with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before his death in 1990. He died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles after the death of his wife. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his television performances. He was a recipient of the Kennedy Centre Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017, Davis was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame."

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