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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Herbie Hancock

He has always been way ahead of his time. This is an old composition. He just won a Grammy Award.

Hancock did much to help promote the interoperability of keyboard controllers and synths, and the MIDI standard.

Roland makes some of the neatest stuff, but is still could be much better.

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Hancock is one of the few who really explores how far keyboards can go in contemporary music.



I'm really loving this. Jazz is very open music. This kind is more for watching than just for listening. How much better if the video could have smooth motion, and if you could have many video tracks, so you could have close ups of each musican and watch their fingers.