Piano
SKU:
M7.AHW-3028
Composed
by Herbie Hancock.
Arranged by Oligario
Diaz. Sheet music.
Performance book. Charles
Colin Corp. #AHW 3028.
Published by Charles
Colin Corp.
(M7.AHW-3028).
English.
This
theoretical book is meant
to improve contemporary
jazz styles and
techniques for all
players of modern jazz.
This study investigates
jazz pianist and composer
Herbie Hancock's seven
albums recorded as a
bandleader for Blue Note
Records between 1962 and
1969. Recorded during
Hancock's tenures with
Donal Byrd and Miles
Davis, his early works
are highly mature musical
conceptions, with all the
major elements of
Hancock's personal
musical style already
present. A mixed-methods
approach combining sever
forms of qualitative data
analysis is used to
identify the formal
construction, the musical
meanings, and the
cultural significance of
this body of music. The
study surveys the
thirty-six compositions
that comprise these seven
albums, and selects for
in-depth analysis seven
pieces that are
proportionally
representative of the
formal characteristics of
this larger repertoire:
The Maze, The Pleasure Is
Mine, Jack Rabbit, One
Finger Snap, Little One,
Toys, and I Have A Dream.
Hancock's improvisations
on these repretative
compositions are
transcribed, and each
improvisation and
composition is analyzed
for its historical
context and significance
of each recording is
examined through
interviews with persons
involved in the original
recording process, as
well as other jazz
musicians and scholars
with deep knowledge of
Hancock's life, music and
oeuvre. Aesthetic
analyses, informed by the
theories of of Kivy and
Elliot, investigate the
expressive or
representational
qualities of each
composition, and examine
how formal musical
elements contribute to
these expressive or
representational
qualities. Formal
analyses examine elements
of Hancock's
compositional and
improvisational style.
The study concludes the
Hancock's compositions
and improvisations of the
period exhibit a number
of consistent style
elements, such as
sophisticated harmonic
and rhythmic
superimposition, that
were very important
influences on jazz
pianists of the following
generation.