Herbie Hancock - Best Album of the Year Is A Real Winner

Before recording the songs, Joni Mitchell * The 12 tracks include 10 of the River - The Joni Letters, Herbie Hancock first gathered his fellow musicians - Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Dave Holland on bass, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums and Lionel Loueke on guitar -- - - and discussed the importance of the texts, the environment of the texts in relation to the music. The music that is coming together designed a hauntingly beautiful tribute to Joni's artistry. Herbie's harmonic sensibilitiesare bold and imaginative. Jazz artists have never shied from dissonance, but the manner in which Herbie is moving moments of the clear liquid tonality restless, dissonant harmony of his artistic size shows.

The songs span three decades (1968-1998) of Joni's career. Guest vocalists include Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza, Joni, and a recitation by Leonard Cohen. Four of the songs - plus two non Joni tracks - presented without vocals. InInstrumental arrangement of "Both Sides Now", the melody appears fragmented, three minutes into the song, and harmonize in an unusual way. He hesitated and felt his way through unfamiliar chords stresses the final lyric, we hear in our heads: "It's life's illusions I recall I really do not know life at all."

There is only the correct number of moments where the music mimics the lyrics so it feels spontaneous, not forced. In "Edith and the Kingpin", Tina Turner surprised us witha seductive melisma to the phrase "secret song" and Wayne Shorter follow their words with a sultry chromatic scale. Blooms in "River" Piano upper register of the rising phrase "I would teach my feet to follow flying."

One of the most fascinating is the solo piano arrangements under Recitation Leonard Cohen's "The Jungle Line." Herbie is the recurring four-note motif from the original starting point and makes the song into an extended riff on thisan item.

Overall, the mood is soft and subdued. It's a late-night-by-the-fireplace or winter morning, kind of a CD, intimate and introspective. There are riches hear the music, which only show themselves to be repeated, and this is an example of great art.

* The version of the CD that I get from iTunes or two other songs, has not part of the standard CD. The version of the CD from Amazon has two more songs.

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