Herbie Hancock Live

[SteveB]

Mr Herbie Hancock will be playing Poole Lighthouse (the venue formerly known as Poole Arts Centre) on 3rd May. Just got my ticket, is anyone else going?

The Herbie Hancock Quartet
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This concert features the freewheeling and headlong improvisation of his acoustic quartet - saxophonist Gary Thomas, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington.

Tue 3 May
8pm
Tickets: £21
Discounts: Students & U18s £7, Groups 4+ £1 off, Groups 8+ 2 off

More info at the woefully over-designed www.lighthousepoole.co.uk

Steve.

 

[Kit Taylor]

Speaking of Herbie Hancock live, VSOP - Live Under the Sky is a good recent purchase, just reissued as a two disc set. Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Charlie and Ron Carte.

A sort of punchy free jazz-ish bebop, with an unusual but very compelling sound that I think comes from the fact that it's a 16-bit PCM recording from 1979.

The music was recorded in a smalll stadium, with heavy rain throughout much of the set, which really boosts the atmosphere and electricty (not literally - zzzt!).