Transcription from Herbie’s New York Minute, played on one of my favourite Herbie Hancock Albums called New Standard.
New York Minute – Herbie Hancock Transcription
1995’s The New Standard found him and an all-star band including John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette and Michael Brecker interpreting pop songs by Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Prince, Peter Gabriel and others. A 1997 duet album with Wayne Shorter titled 1 + 1 was successful, the song “Aung San Suu Kyi” winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, and Hancock also achieved great success in 1998 with his albumGershwin’s World which featured inventive readings of George & Ira Gershwin standards by Hancock and a plethora of guest stars including Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter. Hancock toured the world in the support ofGershwin’s World with a sextet that featured Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson.
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