Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jazzman Herbie Hancock's Beverly Hills house, a brand-new $2,800 Arp 2600 three-oscillator synthesizer sits right next to his Butsudan altar. "There are no miracles in Buddhism, but chanting has never failed," says Herbie. "You can do it if you have a problem, or if you want something to happen or not happen. It's you you are chanting to. It's just like adding fire to yourself." Hancock began chanting two years ago. As a convert to the Buddhist sect known in the U.S. as Nichiren Shoshu of America, he would light...
Today at 34, Hancock heads the most sought-after jazz combo in the U.S. No more warming up the audience for the headliners at all-too-infrequent concert dates. With two Carnegie Hall appearances at this week's Newport Jazz Festival in New York, Hancock kicks off a major headlining tour that will include concerts in such diverse locales as Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati and Tokyo. For his current record company, Columbia, he turned out an LP album, Head Hunters, which as of last week had sold 700,000 copies. That is more than many a hot rock act sells...
...though Herbie sprang from nowhere. As composer and keyboard man with Miles Davis from 1963 to 1968, Hancock long ago made his mark in the jazz community. When he stepped out on his own, it was to make a series of innovative LPs for Blue Note and Warner Bros, that combined an almost impressionist sense of harmony, fleet melodic lines and sprinting tempos...
...question the Hancock building poses about Pei is whether sensitivity to community desires has a high priority when his plans come under attack and the possibility of his withdrawal from a project arises...
...find no overwhelming obstacles in the new plans, despite still vehement community opposition, what will Pei do? Despite Pei's office's claims that he would withdraw from a client's project if he thought it was detrimental, Pei would probably follow the precedent he established with the John Hancock Tower and build the library anyway on top of community and architectural opposition...