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Herbie Hancock — Cantaloupe Island
Album: Cantaloupe Island
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Released: 1964
Length: 5:21
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 idiot_wind wrote:


Go listen to two albums:

Kind of Blue and Favorite Things

then post a comment


I HAVE been listening to those two albums for over 50yrs!  I used to have a Jazz  show on my college radio station show in the 70s, and I played them often! GREAT ALBUMS!!   PS: comment posted!!!
Posted 12 hours ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 paulmcnett wrote:

At RP everyone is above average!


LIke the children at Lake Woebegone.
Posted 3 months ago by jwallstrom846    [ Reply ]
 joejennings wrote:

Burn another one & it will all make sense!   ....By that time, Herbie's Maiden Voyage will be playing  (The one with sailboat on the cover)!!  


Go listen to two albums:

Kind of Blue and Favorite Things

then post a comment
Posted 6 months ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 Ihatethissong wrote:

So the average RP listener likes jazz?  really?

I do.

Not all jazz.  Don't like the, maybe you call it avant garde jazz?  sometimes frenetic, usually sounding like musicians taking turns solo-ing their asses off.  Gets on my nerves.  I know they are supremely talented and skillful musicians and they are jamming together and there is joy in it, but I don't feel it.

this is what happens every time I think I have something worthwhile to say: I don't


Burn another one & it will all make sense!   ....By that time, Herbie's Maiden Voyage will be playing  (The one with sailboat on the cover)!!  
Posted 7 months ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
what a great album this came from. Still sounds so edgy and soulful.
Posted 9 months ago by spacemanspiff    [ Reply ]
 paulmcnett wrote:

At RP everyone is above average!


True. At Lake Radio Paradise, the listeners are all...above average!
Posted 9 months ago by Ropes    [ Reply ]
 TC1 wrote:


Ummm... Herbie doesn't play trumpet, he's always been the keyboardist on his records. 

Another jazz legend, Freddie Hubbard is playing trumpet on this track. All great composers let other musicians shine when the composition calls for it.



YES!!
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 lily34 wrote:

biddy-biddy bop. funky, funky.




And, that is a GOOD THING!   Thanx RP!   
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
biddy-biddy bop. funky, funky.
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 paulmcnett wrote:
I'd give us a 7 - Quite Likeable  


At RP everyone is above average!


Posted 1 year ago by dgblues    [ Reply ]
 lgonzale803 wrote:

Herbie can make that trumpet sing!



Ummm... Herbie doesn't play trumpet, he's always been the keyboardist on his records. 

Another jazz legend, Freddie Hubbard is playing trumpet on this track. All great composers let other musicians shine when the composition calls for it.
Posted 1 year ago by TC1    [ Reply ]
Herbie can make that trumpet sing!
Posted 1 year ago by lgonzale803    [ Reply ]
 lizardking wrote:

This HH track is a 9, and if the US3 track were played here, I'd probably rate it an 8.  Long Live RP!! 


The US3 track is fantastic! From your keyboard to Bill's ears!
Posted 1 year ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
Posted 2 years ago by luisaa72    [ Reply ]
 mcedon wrote:

Album name isn't Empyrean Isles? 


Yes, for sure; Empyrean Isles is the studio album.  We're hearing the cut off of Herbie's Blue Note Records Greatest Hits:  
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island. [The Best of Blue Note Records] And....

If BillG updates the album info to the studio album, I'll go +1 to 10.  Either way I'll say "Long Live Radio Paradise!!" 
Posted 2 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
I was once young and uncultured (I'm not young anymore) and wasting time in Paris. I got into a FNAC (an electronics/music store) on Champs Elysees and Herbie comes on PA playing Cantaloupe Island. I asked the clerk who plays the music and he was genuinely surprised I didn't know. So, he hands me the CD, I pay for it and I became less "uncultured" :)
Posted 2 years ago by Mayasha    [ Reply ]


Rushing or dragging?  Both!
Posted 2 years ago by Hippostar    [ Reply ]
 Tomato wrote:

This 1964 piece beats 99% of current offerings. What, really, is there to talk about?

who really sounds like Pink Floyd?...

Posted 2 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
Wait Wait a Minute...
Posted 2 years ago by STLBubbles    [ Reply ]
i know for a fact that grinnell college music program in grinnell, iowa  is still turning out great piano players


but you got to keep them away from math
sometimes they flip out on it
Posted 2 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Album name isn't Empyrean Isles? 
Posted 2 years ago by mcedon    [ Reply ]
 greiffenstein wrote:
Agree.  To assume "that true jazz fans" must only love the obscure, inaccessible-by-the-masses sounds of avant garde jazz is to assume that jazz lovers are elitists and automatically reject anything that appeals to the intellectual peasantry.  I've heard Wynton Marsalis describe modern hiphop as reverently as he admires the complexities of the Bach concerto in D for Trumpet.  To love music is to love music, regardless of who else loves it, no?  Let's not create a cultural divide where one doesn't really exist

To quote Mr. Duke, "If it sounds good, it is good."

This sounds gorgeous!
Posted 2 years ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
alum of grinnell college in IA

fine liberal arts institution 


 
Posted 2 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 Ihatethissong wrote:

So the average RP listener likes jazz?  really?

I do.

Not all jazz.  Don't like the, maybe you call it avant garde jazz?  sometimes frenetic, usually sounding like musicians taking turns solo-ing their asses off.  Gets on my nerves.  I know they are supremely talented and skillful musicians and they are jamming together and there is joy in it, but I don't feel it.

this is what happens every time I think I have something worthwhile to say: I don't




I don't know that the average listener likes jazz but clearly the above average one does.
Posted 3 years ago by mikedgreene    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

I don't think most "true" fans of any music genre care much about whether a song is accessible or not.



What does "painfully accessible" even mean?
Posted 3 years ago by CosmicDon    [ Reply ]
a proud graduate of grinnell college in grinnell, iowa
Posted 3 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

I don't think most "true" fans of any music genre care much about whether a song is accessible or not.


Agree.  To assume "that true jazz fans" must only love the obscure, inaccessible-by-the-masses sounds of avant garde jazz is to assume that jazz lovers are elitists and automatically reject anything that appeals to the intellectual peasantry.  I've heard Wynton Marsalis describe modern hiphop as reverently as he admires the complexities of the Bach concerto in D for Trumpet.  To love music is to love music, regardless of who else loves it, no?  Let's not create a cultural divide where one doesn't really exist
Posted 3 years ago by greiffenstein    [ Reply ]
 Ihatethissong wrote:

So the average RP listener likes jazz?  really?


At RP everyone is above average!
Posted 3 years ago by paulmcnett    [ Reply ]
 plat_ wrote:

hi hats be like

Not hearing hi-hat so much as ride cymbal...

Posted 3 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Maybe some Herbie's 'Rockit' next time. 
Posted 3 years ago by Rockit9    [ Reply ]
hi hats be like
Posted 3 years ago by plat_    [ Reply ]
Awesome 
Posted 3 years ago by markybx    [ Reply ]
So much 10 for this song. Love Herbie!
Posted 3 years ago by k1j2cat    [ Reply ]
 be4con wrote:
What RP has made me realise is that there are so many types and some of it I love, some I hate. It's lazy to proclaim I love jazz or I hate jazz. It's like saying I hate food.
 

This goes for just about any genre of music as far as I'm concerned. When I was younger I'd say "I hate country" or "I hate rap" but my knowledge of the genres was limited to commercial radio, and I later found out I was missing out on the good stuff!
Posted 3 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
OK Class, don't get your Cantaloupe and Watermelon mixed up
Posted 3 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 rdkleine wrote:
Bidibidibob
 

Was just thinking the same thing!
Posted 4 years ago by LeftShoe    [ Reply ]
 rdkleine wrote:
Bidibidibob whats that 


Posted 4 years ago by jasko    [ Reply ]
Let's hear "Rock It"! Haven't heard that in ages! had an awesome video as well.
Posted 4 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Bidibidibob
Posted 4 years ago by rdkleine    [ Reply ]
 HectorPascal wrote:
Took me half a lifetime to really like this sort of stuff. Now I am giving it a good stiff 9. work that one out.
 
The prospect of working out a stiff 9 fills my mind with so many wrong thoughts
Posted 4 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
 stevesaw wrote:

That is such a good version!
 
They were mostly sampling Blue Note albums and hoping obscurity would keep them out of trouble.
Then one day, they got a phone call from someone at Blue Note.
**gulp**
"Hey, we notice you guys mostly use our stuff for samples . . ."
***oh boy, here comes the C&D! How much is this gonna cost us?***
"If you guys sign with us, we can get you cleaner samples and a bigger library to pull from."
um let us think on that . . . . YES!
Posted 4 years ago by jpfueler    [ Reply ]
A bit of jazz is a great thing, although experimental jazz (not this) has never been my thing; I just can't tell if they're any good or not.
Posted 4 years ago by xray38    [ Reply ]
 kremfresch wrote:
Even after over 20 years I still hear Us3's rap over this base.  "smooth fly, float like a butterfly"
 
That is such a good version!
Posted 4 years ago by stevesaw    [ Reply ]
 DaidyBoy wrote:

cely wrote:

9 for this is just obvious, but I do wonder what the true jazz folks think about something so painfully accessible.


I think that elitist  jazz "snobbery" is every bit as bulls%*t as is expressing disdain for folks who don't "get" Radiohead or Pink Floyd, or anything else for that matter.  Like Ihatethissong said below, you either like it or you don't.  It's not fair to bolt some kind of academic umbrella over it in an attempt to exclude us dumbasses.
 
TRUE Jazz fans respect everything Herbie Hancock gave to the music. His mastery and contribution are absolutely undeniable.  Jazz is the most fluid of musical forms. Anyone that claims to be a "true" jazz fan that only likes a certain subset or sub genre of jazz is no TRUE jazz fan. What MAKES (or made) artists like Herbie or Miles or Coltrane what they are/were is exactly what drives some of these people away when the artist in question moves on. If you love herbie Hancock, you should at least APPRECIATE evrything he brought to the music, from his early accompaniment, to his Headhunters material, to Rock-it. Same with Miles. If you like his bebop but hate his Tutu album, He left YOU behind, not the other way around. When Bebop came along the old guard reacted the same way.
Posted 4 years ago by kremfresch    [ Reply ]
Even after over 20 years I still hear Us3's rap over this base.  "smooth fly, float like a butterfly"
Posted 4 years ago by kremfresch    [ Reply ]
I do enjoy this piece -- gave it an 8. 

But if I could remix it, I would eliminate most of the cymbals......
Posted 4 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
 Ihatethissong wrote:
So the average RP listener likes jazz?  really?

I do.

Not all jazz.  Don't like the, maybe you call it avant garde jazz?  sometimes frenetic, usually sounding like musicians taking turns solo-ing their asses off.  Gets on my nerves.  I know they are supremely talented and skillful musicians and they are jamming together and there is joy in it, but I don't feel it.

this is what happens every time I think I have something worthwhile to say: I don't
 
Ths is pretty much how I feel about that sort of jazz, muscial onanism. What RP has made me realise is that there are so many types and some of it I love, some I hate. It's lazy to proclaim I love jazz or I hate jazz. It's like saying I hate food.

This tune is smooth as cocoa butter, and gets my vote. Other than that it's all pretty much about the drumming for me as far as jazz is concerned.
Posted 4 years ago by be4con    [ Reply ]
Took me half a lifetime to really like this sort of stuff. Now I am giving it a good stiff 9. work that one out.
Posted 5 years ago by HectorPascal    [ Reply ]
This 1964 piece beats 99% of current offerings. What, really, is there to talk about?
Posted 5 years ago by Tomato    [ Reply ]

cely wrote:

9 for this is just obvious, but I do wonder what the true jazz folks think about something so painfully accessible.

 Proclivities wrote:

I don't think most "true" fans of any music genre care much about whether a song is accessible or not.
 
I think that elitist  jazz "snobbery" is every bit as bulls%*t as is expressing disdain for folks who don't "get" Radiohead or Pink Floyd, or anything else for that matter.  Like Ihatethissong said below, you either like it or you don't.  It's not fair to bolt some kind of academic umbrella over it in an attempt to exclude us dumbasses.
Posted 5 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
wish Bill would play some track from River
particularly dig Tina Turner singing Joni
Posted 5 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by chix    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
Just watched a documentary about the Blue Note label  and interview with Herbie and  Wayne  Shorter and  some younger players.

Nice to see them pay little deference to the old guys.   
 
saw that too....

"It must schwing"....
Posted 5 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
Just watched a documentary about the Blue Note label  and interview with Herbie and  Wayne  Shorter and  some younger players.

Nice to see them pay little deference to the old guys.   
Posted 5 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 lizardking wrote:

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memoryboxer wrote:
I first came to this song through it's being sampled by US3 back in '92, for their break out single Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia). They used a lot of Blue Note catalogue samples in their amazing blend of jazz and hip hop. That they chose this sublime riff as their starting point only makes sense; such a fabulous groove. These days I'm equally happy with both Hancock and US3; just makes me smile and wanna bop.
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One of the reasons I really like sampled music in songs (and why I like a lot of older rap & R&B) is that it helps broaden ones musical landscape, often without knowing it.  Even if the original source is known, it helps pull out the sounds - and in the case of this song, I also had the US3 disc and as my love for jazz and blues blossomed a few years later, I too found a smile on my face when either the HH or the US3 track was playing, and I'm back in my early college years and it's pretty cool that a small song sample can create so much in such little space.  This HH track is a 9, and if the US3 track were played here, I'd probably rate it an 8.  Long Live RP!! 
 
Not unlike how Looney Tunes introduced many of us to classical music, including opera.

Really enjoyed US3's Cantaloop (and most of their album) when it came out, plus the fun remixes on the Get Shorty soundtrack. Had never really appreciated HH's work until a few years ago (listening to RP), liking it very much.
Posted 5 years ago by Solanus    [ Reply ]
Funky funky. Great song
Posted 5 years ago by Boxie    [ Reply ]
CLASSIC ALERT
Posted 5 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
 cely wrote:
9 for this is just obvious, but I do wonder what the true jazz folks think about something so painfully accessible.
 
I don't think most "true" fans of any music genre care much about whether a song is accessible or not.
Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 lizardking wrote:

One of the reasons I really like sampled music in songs (and why I like a lot of older rap & R&B) is that it helps broaden ones musical landscape, often without knowing it.  Even if the original source is known, it helps pull out the sounds - and in the case of this song, I also had the US3 disc and as my love for jazz and blues blossomed a few years later, I too found a smile on my face when either the HH or the US3 track was playing, and I'm back in my early college years and it's pretty cool that a small song sample can create so much in such little space.  This HH track is a 9, and if the US3 track were played here, I'd probably rate it an 8.  Long Live RP!! 
 
9.5 :) 
Posted 5 years ago by shelleymccluskie    [ Reply ]
 memoryboxer wrote:
I first came to this song through it's being sampled by US3 back in '92, for their break out single Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia). They used a lot of Blue Note catalogue samples in their amazing blend of jazz and hip hop. That they chose this sublime riff as their starting point only makes sense; such a fabulous groove. These days I'm equally happy with both Hancock and US3; just makes me smile and wanna bop.
 
One of the reasons I really like sampled music in songs (and why I like a lot of older rap & R&B) is that it helps broaden ones musical landscape, often without knowing it.  Even if the original source is known, it helps pull out the sounds - and in the case of this song, I also had the US3 disc and as my love for jazz and blues blossomed a few years later, I too found a smile on my face when either the HH or the US3 track was playing, and I'm back in my early college years and it's pretty cool that a small song sample can create so much in such little space.  This HH track is a 9, and if the US3 track were played here, I'd probably rate it an 8.  Long Live RP!! 
Posted 5 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
Manhattan Transfer does  a cover of this piece acapella with lyrics.
Posted 5 years ago by the_jake    [ Reply ]
So the average RP listener likes jazz?  really?

I do.

Not all jazz.  Don't like the, maybe you call it avant garde jazz?  sometimes frenetic, usually sounding like musicians taking turns solo-ing their asses off.  Gets on my nerves.  I know they are supremely talented and skillful musicians and they are jamming together and there is joy in it, but I don't feel it.

this is what happens every time I think I have something worthwhile to say: I don't
Posted 6 years ago by Ihatethissong    [ Reply ]
I first came to this song through it's being sampled by US3 back in '92, for their break out single Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia). They used a lot of Blue Note catalogue samples in their amazing blend of jazz and hip hop. That they chose this sublime riff as their starting point only makes sense; such a fabulous groove. These days I'm equally happy with both Hancock and US3; just makes me smile and wanna bop.
Posted 6 years ago by memoryboxer    [ Reply ]
Yes!!! Herbie! He's coming to my country next November 15th, already have the tickets!!!
Posted 6 years ago by Marce_El_Pela    [ Reply ]
++++++++Still as great as ever!
Posted 6 years ago by Arkle    [ Reply ]
10! Pure & simple!
Posted 6 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
another great Herbie Hancock track that would be great to hear on RP would be Maiden Voyage...
Posted 6 years ago by dpvest    [ Reply ]
In my heart, I like rock.  But its seems only jazz can master such a sublime execution of both the simple and sophisticated.
Posted 6 years ago by Typesbad    [ Reply ]
 ojibwe wrote:
What's that?

 
Biddy biddy bop.
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
34 "1" votes...really?  I have to assume those 34 people were having a bad day.
Posted 6 years ago by Cannon    [ Reply ]
9 for this is just obvious, but I do wonder what the true jazz folks think about something so painfully accessible.
Posted 6 years ago by cely    [ Reply ]
Am not - and never have been - a jazz aficionado. Not even a fan really. But to give this anything less than a 10 is simply churlish.
Sublime and supreme.
Posted 6 years ago by Will62    [ Reply ]
Sublime. The essence of jazz. Love the eloquent earlier review along these lines. 
Posted 6 years ago by Jad44Paradise    [ Reply ]
What's that?
Posted 6 years ago by ojibwe    [ Reply ]
Incredulous that I only gave this a 9 in the past!
Posted 6 years ago by jocelynsart    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:

Not to change the subject, but to the Carlos Santana dissers on this site, who call him a noodler, etc., look at the 4 names on this album, and get even with the fact that Santana has played and recorded with them, multiple times.  He, Herbie, Ron Carter and Tony Williams have the tracks, the LPs and CDs to prove it. Just sayin'. 
 

 
{#Clap}
Posted 7 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
First heard this music sampled here.

Love it all!


Posted 7 years ago by BlueHeronDruid    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
This songs makes me want to walk down sidewalks of busy cities, dodging cars in the crosswalks.  All of this in black and white. 
 
That's cool, but I live and work in a city.  

This makes me want to sit on the porch of an isolated Appalachian cabin, in the sunshine, looking across the holler at fifty different shades of greenness .... with a cold slice of cantaloupe waiting.
Posted 7 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 Shmelo wrote:
Tony WIlliams is a god. This is as good as it gets.

 
I had a ride cymbal, a Paiste Signature 22" Rough Ride, that sounded very much like Tony's "Nefertiti" ride. Probably should have kept that one.

Posted 7 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Tony WIlliams is a god. This is as good as it gets.
Posted 7 years ago by Shmelo    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:
Bill, remember dedications on Top 40 radio—like KEWB and KYA? If you took them, I'd send this one out to fredriley. This, my friend, is what jazz is all about—a simple melody embroidered gently with the merest suggestions of excursion. No, not all jazz is this ear friendly, but what is is worth seeking out.

 
"ear friendly" !  cheers (clink)

such beautiful music 
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Sooooo cool this song is! {#Daisy} I'd like to be like it{#Wink}.
Posted 7 years ago by mojcamojca77    [ Reply ]
7 -> 8 -> 9

It is outstanding. Maybe not 100% my personal taste, but nevertheless. True art is not a question of personal preference.
Posted 7 years ago by user4176    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:
https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4024/cover_1542014122009.jpg

 
Not to change the subject, but to the Carlos Santana dissers on this site, who call him a noodler, etc., look at the 4 names on this album, and get even with the fact that Santana has played and recorded with them, multiple times.  He, Herbie, Ron Carter and Tony Williams have the tracks, the LPs and CDs to prove it. Just sayin'. 
 
Posted 8 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Awesome.
Posted 8 years ago by jeffpenfold    [ Reply ]
This songs makes me want to walk down sidewalks of busy cities, dodging cars in the crosswalks.  All of this in black and white. 

And Herbie is a proud graduate of Grinell College in Grinell, Iowa! In the corn fields. 

But the city is located on old highway 6, which is the road Jack Kerouac hitch hiked to Denver, in "On The Road".

Go figure.  
Posted 8 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
i wish there was an eleven on here!
Posted 8 years ago by bobcanna1    [ Reply ]
https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4024/cover_1542014122009.jpg
Posted 8 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
nothing like acoustic 
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
Legendary piece, eponymous with a better time and style  (which may never have existed).
Posted 8 years ago by SECA_Alan    [ Reply ]
timeless classic
Posted 8 years ago by root0    [ Reply ]
 justin4kick wrote:
Funky, funky.

 
Us 3 get that
Posted 8 years ago by jpfueler    [ Reply ]
Funky, funky.
Posted 8 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
 Baby_M wrote:
This piece always gives me a melon-choly feeling.

 

{#Lol}
Posted 9 years ago by greiffenstein    [ Reply ]
very nice to hear more jazz in this set! classic small venue vibe with amazing artists!   {#Drummer}{#Music}
Posted 9 years ago by fitmartin    [ Reply ]
Love HH, though yes, I do love US3 just as much
Posted 9 years ago by jocelynsart    [ Reply ]
Billy billy bop 
Posted 9 years ago by MJdub    [ Reply ]
 markhaneklaus wrote:

forget us3 herbie has a lot more to offer

 
Wait, wait a minute!
Posted 9 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
This piece always gives me a melon-choly feeling.
Posted 9 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
man, after a day like today, this is balm for the soul.  Thank you.
Posted 9 years ago by nook    [ Reply ]
:-)
Posted 9 years ago by hempmandan    [ Reply ]
Like a simpering dog barking incredulously at a full-speed and unstoppable train, I rate this piece of Greatness and Truth a 10.

Posted 9 years ago by Laowai    [ Reply ]
Freddie Hubbard on trumpet.  He had an gorgeous fat, brassy tone that was instantly recognizable to those familiar with his work. 
Posted 9 years ago by garyalex    [ Reply ]
Herbie's the man  one of my favorites
Posted 9 years ago by ddrich67    [ Reply ]
Just gorgeous...
Posted 9 years ago by che_cavolo    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:
This, my friend, is what jazz is all about—a simple melody embroidered gently with the merest suggestions of excursion. No, not all jazz is this ear friendly, but what is is worth seeking out.
 
Up voted. Thumbed up. Smiley added. Link shared. Promoted comment. All that stuff.

Well said Lizard, well said. 
Posted 9 years ago by Ahnyer_Keester    [ Reply ]
Bill, remember dedications on Top 40 radio—like KEWB and KYA? If you took them, I'd send this one out to fredriley. This, my friend, is what jazz is all about—a simple melody embroidered gently with the merest suggestions of excursion. No, not all jazz is this ear friendly, but what is is worth seeking out.
Posted 9 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
More of the Genius please....and throw in some Chick Corea...
 
Posted 9 years ago by hempmandan    [ Reply ]
So much cooler than arcade fire, played just two songs ago...
Posted 9 years ago by MilesW    [ Reply ]
One of the coolest funky Jazz grooves ever! Right up there with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Blakey & the other Jazz Greats. Dig it!
Posted 9 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 Businessgypsy wrote:
 Ballzak wrote:
"Ok kids, lets learn how to play a musical instrument.  We'll start at the beginning, call it ground Zero.  If you ever want to know where the full potential of music is, here, listen to this piece.  Maybe someday you can make something THIS good.  Let's start practicing..."
Appreciate your appreciation, but to counter I'd say that this piece is a wonderful illustration of the limits of technique, in and of itself. Practice will get you to the launch pad, but it takes soul, art and intuitive communication between artists to ascend to the heavens revealed in this performance. Not sure that can be taught as much as nurtured, but we're all fortunate enough to hear it being captured from time to time.

 
Awesome song, and comments worthy of a bump to the top:)
Posted 10 years ago by Stephenater    [ Reply ]
Jim_Messenger wrote:
Every time RP plays this I get the urge to play Sim City.  

 
Transport Tycoon :)
Posted 10 years ago by mattti    [ Reply ]
{#Daisy} {#Daisy} {#Daisy}   classic, wonderful sound
Posted 10 years ago by Jannne    [ Reply ]
great sound
Posted 10 years ago by kenbloom    [ Reply ]
 The_Walrus wrote:
First heard the US3 cover of this and keep waiting for someone to sing "Funky Funky"!

 
forget us3 herbie has a lot more to offer
Posted 10 years ago by markhaneklaus    [ Reply ]
Yes! As not a fan of free jazz, i like this very much!
Posted 10 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
Every time RP plays this I get the urge to play Sim City.  
Posted 10 years ago by Jim_Messenger    [ Reply ]
First heard the US3 cover of this and keep waiting for someone to sing "Funky Funky"!
Posted 10 years ago by The_Walrus    [ Reply ]
{#Bananapiano}something more from Herbie, please. love this cut but more have been recorded.
Posted 10 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
Nice, although, I find the sound of the ride cymbal distracting.  Sounds a little too trashy.
Posted 10 years ago by PopKombo    [ Reply ]