Solo Analysis: Herbie Hancock - "Solitude" - #68
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Adam Anas. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'm Peter Martin. |
| 0:18.4 | And you're listening to the soothing sounds of the You'll Hear It podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | Drifting to you daily. |
| 0:26.4 | So this music indicates that we're on a Wednesday version of our solo analysis. |
| 0:33.6 | I thought you were going to say this music indicates that we're in heaven. |
| 0:36.6 | Because I feel like I am. |
| 0:38.0 | That's so good, isn't it? Who we listen to? Listen to the supple pianistic sounds of Herbie Hancock. Supple is a terrible word. It is. I don't even know what it means. Yeah, this is Herbie Hancock from his Grammy Award-winning album, River, the Johnny Letters. Nice. This is Solitude and we're focusing on Herbie Solo. |
| 0:36.9 | We are Grammy Award winning album River, The Journey Letters. Nice. This is Solitude, and we're focusing on Herbie Solo. |
| 0:57.7 | We are zeroing in on Solitude of his solo on Solitude. |
| 1:01.9 | Yeah, indeed. |
| 1:03.5 | So why did you choose this solo, man? |
| 1:05.8 | Well, actually, what I was hoping to do was just even started from where we did at the beginning, |
| 1:10.7 | because I think the |
| 1:11.6 | whole thing is you know the way he plays a melody i really wanted to look at that i think it's such a great |
| 1:17.3 | this recording this particular track is such a great example of um you know herbie's just pianistic |
| 1:26.7 | skills in this great trio setting over just a standard. |
| 1:30.9 | Now, there's a bunch of things we could get into too. |
| 1:32.7 | We probably won't, you know, in terms of like harmony and re-harmon and stuff. |
| 1:35.9 | But just in terms of his piano playing, like his control of the left hand and the right hand, |
| 1:41.1 | how he breaks up the voicing and stuff. |
| 1:43.0 | Let's do it. |
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