Jazz Classics
Jazz Classics
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- harlequino0
Always had a love/hate relationship with Herbie. I love the earlier Blue Note stuff, of course, but was never crazy about the funk and electro paths he took. Just not my style. But I really liked his initiative in the mid 90's when he tried to usher a new generation of standards to play. His whole thing was "Srsly, how many times are we going to play 'Take the A Train?'" He was playing Nirvana and Cure songs, and they kinda worked.
In any case, he was on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on NPR about a year ago. Really interesting if you can track it down. He was talking about how bizarre it was when "Rockit" took off, and how all the breakdancers were popping to it. Defintely a guy who's been around.