Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feets Don't Fail Me Now. Herbie Hancock's newest display of ingenuity packs every bit of his amazing style into six diverse tracks. Hancock controls the method and the mood in Feets, an album worthy of the freshness of his thought...
...Hancock introduced a tremendously ambitious musical innovation when he first used the Sennheiser Vocoder VSM. The four-part electronic keyboard takes the human voice and synthesizes it to sound exactly like a musical instrument. Incredible results characterized Sunlight, the first album to use the VSM and one of the top jazz discs of last year. The synthesizer sound most closely resembles "You Got the Love" by Rufus and Chaka Khan, a popular track back...
...intense, and brilliant musician for many years, Hancock's efforts to sparkle his style are not wasted in Feets Don't Fail Me Now. His use of the synthesizer at this point in his life is indicative of the depth of his enormous talent. Many popular and respected musicians change only the style of their lyrics as their careers evolve; rarely do they explore modifications in their own voices or choice of instruments...
...Hancock delivers a petrifyingly smooth and solid disc with the pace of a pendulum and an impressive array of moods. "Trust Me," a soft and easily flowing track incorporated his genius on the keyboards and his synthesized voice. To illuminate the backup vocals, a factor many other artists ignore. Hancock relies upon the Four Waters. The Four Waters isn't the name of a quartet, but rather a way to describe the vocal ebb and flow of brothers Oren and Luther Waters and their wives Julia and Maxine. The stunning vitality of their voices sounds electrifying behind that of Hancock...
...Medley Relay--1. Harvard (Ron Raikula, Tom Royal, Jack Gauthier, Chris Hancock) 3:36.50; 1000-yd. freestyle--1. Bobby Hackett (H) 9:11.75, 2. E. Izermak (N) 9:31.60, 3. V.J. Winkel (N) 9:33.13; 200-yd. freestyle--1. Jack Gauthier (H) 1:43.04, 2. Keszere (N) 1:45.71, 3. Sclaap (N) 1:47.45; 200-Individual Medley--1. Fred Eefting (N) 1:58.50, 2. Tim Maximoff (H) 1:58.85, 3. Ron Raikula (H) 1:59.44; 200-yd. butterfly--1. Campari Knoepffler (H) 1:56.62, 2. F. Vollernough (N) 1:56.73, 3. P. Duinmayer (N) 1:57.57; 100-yd. freestyle...