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Argento, who won a 1975 Pulitzer Prize, has not totally lost his musical sense. There are several ensembles-brief trios and quartets, a long quintet-that have attenuated fascination in this dream world. The orchestration is sparse, but it underscores the decay and the stopped time that Miss Havisham inhabited after she smashed her clocks on what was to be her wedding...
...Quintet--1369 Jazz Club...
Mark Janifer Quintet--Holmes Living Room...
Hancock responded to his critics by bringing together the V.S.O.P. Quintet, basically a reformation of a ground-breaking Miles Davis group minus Miles, at the 1976 Newport Jazz Festival. The Quintet played the kind of dense, improvisational music that Miles had been experimenting with in the late '60s, and their performance was so well received that the Quintet recorded two live albums and went on a major concert tour in 1977. Their reunion was highly-touted and very well attended, and the musicians were praised for revitalizing exciting and difficult musical forms...
Then Hancock joined fellow crossover artist Chick Corea for a series of duet piano concerts, which reconfirmed both players as skilled and important improvisationsts. Both the Quintet and the piano tour served to generate among fusion fans an interest in mainstream jazz, and both were commercially successful. But both projects seem to have been dropped, and Herbie Hancock is back on the road with his funk band...