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Music CD - Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Roy Hargrove: Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
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Music CD: Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
Artist: Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Roy Hargrove
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $9.08
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Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
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Average Customer Rating: 
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Tracks:
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1. The Sorcerer
2. The Poet
3. So What/Impressions
4. Misstery
5. Naima
6. Transition
7. My Ship
8. D Trane
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731458965428
Format: Live
Label: Umvd Labels
Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Umvd Labels
Release Date: 2002-06-11
Studio: Umvd Labels
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: More Than Great Herbie Hancock, Oh So Much More!
Comment: I had this CD mentally pegged as one of my favorite "Herbie Hancock CDs." It was mentally and physically filed under "Hancock."
Big mistake.
As a huge Michael Brecker fan I... was quite embarrassed by my mental laziness.
Now, when I rediscovered my copy of DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC as a Herbie Hancock AND Michael Brecker AND Roy Hargrove AND John Patitucci AND Brian Blade CD the joy was off the scale.
A remarkable CD which brings together some of the finest jazz musucians of our time playing their best.
Just wish I cudda been there...
Kirtland Peterson
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I almost had the chance to hear this group live. It would have been an incredible experience to see and hear these guys in concert.
This album pays homage to John Coltrane and Miles Davis, who were not only highly innovative players, but great composers, too. It never really hit me that almost everything Coltrane recorded as a solo artist had been written by him.
Anyway, this album has a very modern sound to it (hence the pushing music forward, "directions" part). The standout track in my opinion, since I am an asipiring jazz saxophonist, is Michael Brecker's solo performance of Coltrane's "Naima". Brecker has the most impressive technique of any living jazz saxophonist. I was not too familiar with Brecker before hearing this album, so hearing him play something like "Naima" was pretty moving.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Noisy and Pretentious
Comment: OK, I must be in the distinct minority here, but this is an album that is difficult to listen to, and somewhat avant garde. I suppose the bulk of the reviewers here as well as the cheering crowd in Massey Hall are more sophisticated than I. I've been listening to jazz for over 40 years, had my own jazz radio show and play a little myself. I've enjoyed Herbie Hancock and respect his contributions. I've seen him live twice, once with the Headhunters in 1975 and again about 4 or 5 years ago with Wayne Shorter. Hancock has gone through many phases. I didn't get Mwandishi or Rockit with that guitar/keyboard contraption. Also, I didn't get the performance with Wayne Shorter with all the meandering and drifting. My sense at that time was he is the star, and if you don't get it, tough cookies.
Now we get some superb jazz performers doing their thing, with more meandering, squawking, off key sounding horns (as if they were sucking lemons) and we're supposed to cheer about it. So great, they've made their names, they can screw around with these bizarre arrangements, but I'm not obligated to pretend I like it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A challenging and rewarding trip
Comment: First, I'd like to address the complaint that bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade didn't make the front cover. The reason for this is that "Directions in Music" is Hancock, Brecker, and Hargrove. Directions in Music is now touring again, and I just got back from seeing their show in Minneapolis, where their drummer and bassist were Terri Lyne Carrington and Scott Colley, respectively. If there is ever a CD released as a result of the current tour, I suspect there will be similar indignation from Colleyacs and Carringtonphiles.
This CD is very advanced jazz. There is a level of abstraction here that demands that this music be listened to actively, if at all. That isn't to say that this is free jazz; there is a predetermined structure behind what you're hearing, but it feels loose and impressionistic. It is worth the trouble of warming up to. The rhythym section is delightfully responsive to the solos of Brecker and Hargrove, and that goes double for Herbie Hancock, who comes off as a complementary counter-soloist more often than not. Brecker and Hargrove use this support to their advantage. Their solos typically will develop slowly and deliberately, starting out ponderous and using spaces effectively as they build tension to a climactic point at which they get to use the full strength of their dexterity.
At this point, I must make the obligatory "______ alone is worth the price of admission" statement about Impressions. My previous experiences with this song have been Coltrane-styled modal romps. The Directions in Music approach to it was a stunning reinvention (a slow-developing Impressions!).
Naima is just an extended solo by Brecker. It should be treated as an intermission. It tended to get a little too showy as it wore on, but you can take it or leave it; other reviewers have chosen to take it.
I have heard nothing about plans for another Directions in Music CD, but if there is one, here's an idea of what to expect. The most obvious change is the addition of electronic effects in a few of the songs. Hancock has his keyboard, Brecker picks up an EWI (electronic wind instrument), and Hargrove even has a second microphone which he uses to get sound effects out of his trumpet. The concert was also in surround sound. The song selection was entirely different, except for a revisting of The Poet. They also played John Coltrane's Cresent, a tune which is designed to be played dramatically, patiently, and deliberately, so it fits Directions in Music like a glove. Brecker's intermission solo is on the EWI this time. He layers over himself until he's a regular one-man band, playing a funky version of Wayne Shorter's Pinocchio. Again, expendable, but perhaps you would be amused.
Pick this up, figure out what it's about, and keep an eye out for a sequel.
Customer Rating:
Summary: NO GREENHORNS
Comment: A loving homage to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Of the three main players here, only Herbie Hancock actually played with Miles Davis. To my knowledge, even Hancock never played with Coltrane. So it is that Michael Brecker in the liner notes writes of listening to Miles and Hancock playing on FOUR PLUS MORE while he was in high school. (Hancock must be feeling old these days.) Even still at least another generation has come up since Brecker and Hargrove won national recognition, so this is not a bunch of greenhorns laying their praises at the memory of the masters.
What Hancock and company have produced are high quality acoustic performances that are more reminiscent of Davis and Coltrane than note for note reproductions of the originals. Roughly half of the cuts are pieces the dynamics duo recorded themselves at one time; the remainder are musical impressions written in their wake. ("The Sorcerer" falls into both categories.)
With the chances to hear these musicians play live declining, this may be the only opportunity we may get to hear jazz of this caliber outside the confines of the studio. This recording comes highly recommended.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Directions in Music marks Herbie Hancock's all-star tribute to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. It's clearly a chance for Hancock to return once again to his creative roots, when he was in Davis's great quintet of the mid-'60s, and he has excellent companions for the journey in Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove, the tenor saxophonist and trumpeter who clearly demonstrate their inspiration in Coltrane and Miles. The CD begins with a reprise of Hancock's "Sorcerer" from his Miles period, with bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade, who were so crucial a part of Wayne Shorter's Footprints Live, and prove themselves just as important here. Blade is especially driving, pressing Hancock and the horns to complex creative dialogue. The synthesis of "So What/Impressions," already closely linked tunes, benefits from the input of some fresh creative thinking, while Brecker's long cadenza on "Naima" is an effective invocation of Coltrane's intrepid virtuosity. Over 78 minutes in length, this is energetic, sometimes brilliant music, in many ways resembling Hancock's own classic, Maiden Voyage. --Stuart Broomer
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