“The New Standard,” released in 1996, is the brilliant pianist Herbie Hancock’s fortieth studio album, and it’s essentially a roster of modern songs by many genre-spanning artists that Hancock considers “standards.” Herbie remakes each song in a new way; sometimes he’s true to their original styles, and sometimes he reinvents and rejuvenates the tunes by [...]
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Pick of the Week – Herbie Hancock’s “The New Standard”
September 28, 2009
Pick of the Week – Sonny Rollins’s “Aix in Provence, 1959″
August 25, 2009
Well, this is actually more of a pick of the month, but there you have it. I’m a huge Rollins devotee, so this album was the first thing in the Athenaeum’s collection that captured my attention. It’s a live trio recording from 1959′s Aix-in-Provence Jazz Festival in France, and features Sonny Rollins on tenor sax, [...]
