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HERBIE HANCOCK
CLINIC
THESE NEW PURITANS
&
JAY REATARD
announced as first acts to perform
@
HEINEKEN GREEN SYNERGY: VILLAGE QUARTER
Tripod, Village, Whelans, Anseo, Solas and Shine
(Wed Nov. 12th – Sun Nov. 16th)
Jazz legend HERBIE HANCOCK makes his first Irish appearance in 13 years as part of the third Heineken Green Synergy Festival which returns to the Village Quarter bringing a host of big name performances, debut shows, free DJ sets and other attractions.
Hancock will perform in Tripod on Wednesday November 12th in what promises to be one of the most eagerly anticipated shows of the year. HERBIE HANCOCK, who this year continued to make jazz history when his album 'River: The Joni Letters' won the 2008 Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Album of the Year - only the second jazz album ever to win the Album of the Year Award.
Hancock is one of the most influential and widely-sampled acts of all time. Only James Brown has been sampled more on modern hiphop, funk and dance hits.
Tickets priced €44.50 and €64.50 go on sale this Friday at 9am.
Also announced for the Heineken Green Synergy Festival are Clinic and These New Puritans who play the Village on Wednesday November 12th and Jay Retard who plays upstairs at Whelans on Sunday November 16th. Tickets for these shows also go on sale this Friday morning.
Further acts will be announced by Heineken andPOD Concerts over the coming weeks and the festival website www.greensynergy.ie will go live in September.
As part of Miles Davis' 'second great quintet' Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. Later he was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk; his best known solo works include 'Cantaloupe Island', 'Watermelon Man', 'Maiden Voyage' and the singles 'I Thought It Was You', and 'Rockit', both worldwide smash hits. His 2007 tribute album, the double Grammy winner 'River: The Joni Letters' is a set of songs, vocal and instrumental, by or influenced by Joni Mitchell and recorded by Herbie with Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Vinnie Colaiuta and Lionel Loueke with guest vocalists Joni Mitchell, Corinne Bailey Rae, Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, Luciana Souza and Tina Turner.
Herbie - the early years
Like many jazz pianists Herbie started with a classical music education and played with the Chicago Symphony when he was just 7 years old…he discovered Oscar Peterson and George Shearing in his teens and started to develop a unique ear and sense of harmony. As a youngster he moved to Chicago, played with Donald Byrd, Coleman Hawkins and signed to Blue Note in 1962 and, through the release of his first album, 'Watermelon Man', was spotted by Miles Davis who added the young pianist to his new band along with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams; this quintet is often regarded as one of the finest jazz ensembles.
While in Miles' band, Herbie found time to record dozens of sessions for the Blue Note label, both under his own name and as a sideman; his albums 'Empyrean Isles' (1964) and 'Maiden Voyage' (1965) were to be two of the most famous and influential jazz albums of the 60s and regarded as among the principal foundations of the post-bop style. Around this time Herbie composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's film 'BlowUp', the first of many which include 'Death Wish' and ''Round Midnight'.
In 1968 Herbie left Miles' band to form his own sextet and signed to Warner Bros, composing the soundtrack to the Bill Cosby TV show. His first ventures into electronic music resulted in three experimental albums including 'Crossings' (1972) which featured the pioneering synthesizer player, Patrick Gleeson.
In the mid 70s Herbie formed The Headhunters; their first album was a major hit with jazz and pop audiences; the Headhunters reunited with Herbie in 1998 for 'Return of the Headhunters'. During the late 70s and early 80s Herbie toured with his 'VSOP' quintet which featured all the members of the Davis quintet, except Davis himself, who was replaced by trumpet giant Freddie Hubbard. He recorded many albums consisting of jazz-inflected disco and pop beginning with 'Sunlight' (1978); singing through a vocoder, he had a huge hit in the UK with 'I Thought It Was You' which was followed up by the smash hit 'Feets Don't Fail Me Now'.
Herbie - 1980 to now
In 1981 he recorded 'Quartet' with the 20 year old Wynton Marsalis and in 1983 won a Grammy for the instrumental single 'Rocket' from the album 'Future Shock'; it featured an innovative animated music video directed by Godley and Crème which was an instant hit on MTV; the video subsequently won five awards at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards.
Herbie then experimented with electronic music on three albums produced by Bill Laswell - 'Future Shock', 'Sound-System' and 'Perfect Machine' and appeared onstage at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones and Thomas Dolby in a famous synthesizer jam; in 1985 he performed as a guest on the album 'So Red The Rose' by the Duran Duran spin off group, Arcadia.
In 1986 he performed and acted in Bertrand Tavernier's film ''Round Midnight' and won an Academy Award for Original Music Score for his soundtrack. He won another Grammy in 1994 - for Best Group Album - for 'A Tribute To Miles' and in 1998 achieved great success with his album 'Gershwin's World' which fetured inventive readings of George and Ira Gershwin standards by Hancock and a number of guest stars including Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell.
In 2001 Hancock recorded 'Future2Future' which reunited him with Bill Laswell; he also joined up with Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert album saluting Davis and John Coltrane called 'Directions In Music: Live At Massey Hall' recorded live in Toronto.
2005's duet album 'Possibilities' featured duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting and more and was nominated for two Grammys. The same year Herbie toured Europe with a new quartet that included Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke.
In 2006 Sony/BMG released the two disc retrospective 'The Essential Herbie Hancock' which is a compilation of Herbie's work at Warners, Blue Note, Columbia and Verve.
A longtime associate and friend of Joni Mitchell, Hancock released the aforementioned 'River: The Joni Letters' which has subsequently wowed fans, audiences, critics and Grammy voters.
