I am sorry
we could never really
see the point
(for the clutter
Maybe it’s the big
band thing (declined…
In the plural, then:
Pastori
Pastori
Pastoros
Pastorum
Pastoris
Pastoris
Herbie Hancock
Hancock is chameleonic by nature, an artist
who adapts easily and naturally without
betraying his essence or integrity as he slips
smoothly from guise to guise.
Jazz Times
This is hardly Cockney
’Ancock’s ’Alf ’Our
Herbie is a class act
(& chameleon over a
long career)
Introspective pianist to
Fender Rhodes funkster
& back —all the way back
(frighteningly frenetic to
wickedly sublime)
Maybe a true zenith
the 2008 Grammy, first
jazz album in 43
years
—Hancock
brings it home
to the World
(pulls it together
at the heart)
The cream does rise
occasionally
(& settles icy mellow
keys)
And the guy always
looks class
class of Holland, Shorter, & co.
(unquestionably
miles ahead)
Miles
Yup, Miles again
Still Miles a-head
Weird & wired—
Have never really known
if we saw you
at Massey Hall
(circa 1970)
—or was it some
vivid tape trip?
Wanting sooo bad
to be there
(more than any-
where ever)
Watching The Man
(hip genius)
do his thing
We had, by then,
like, totally
fused
Copyright © Stephen Bett, 2011.
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