From The Cool Side Of The Seventies: Herbie Hancock's Vein Melter

Put down the '70s all you want, but culturally it was a very good period for some things.

It wasn't the finest period for jazz. But, the fusion movement was interesting, and it turned enough members of a new generation, people like me, on to jazz generally that we went back and "rediscovered" the great past eras. Like, Forties bop, Fifties "cool" jazz and hard bop, and early Sixties "free" jazz. Now I even like some of the stuff recorded before the early '40s. The music of "The Jazz Age" of the Twenties and the swing of the Thirties was often more commercial than the later stuff, but it had many high points.

Anyway, the '70s had great jazz moments: Here's one from Herbie Hancock, vintage 1973.



Have a wonderful weekend. -- MJ