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You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
Bob Gluck
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Description for You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
Hardcover. As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he brought a new group of musicians together into what would become a revolutionary band. This book offers a comprehensive study of this seminal group. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 halftones, 22 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; AVH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he brought a new group of musicians together into what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and electronic sounds into groundbreaking experiments that helped shape the American popular music that followed. In "You'll Know When You Get There", Bob Gluck offers the first comprehensive study of ... Read more
As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he brought a new group of musicians together into what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and electronic sounds into groundbreaking experiments that helped shape the American popular music that followed. In "You'll Know When You Get There", Bob Gluck offers the first comprehensive study of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226300047
SKU
V9780226300047
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About Bob Gluck
Bob Gluck is a jazz historian, an associate professor of music, and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Reviews for You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
"You'll Know When You Get There fills an important gap in jazz scholarship. In fact, the thin body of literature on a jazz figure as imposing as Herbie Hancock makes this book a matter of some urgency. Filled with meaty stuff, good quotes, and insightful conclusions, Bob Gluck's book is a substantial and needed look at an important era of ... Read more