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New York Minute – Herbie Hancock Transcription

Transcription from Herbie’s New York Minute, played on one of my favourite Herbie Hancock Albums called New Standard.

New York Minute – Herbie Hancock Transcription

1995’s The New Standard found him and an all-star band including John ScofieldJack DeJohnette and Michael Brecker interpreting pop songs by NirvanaStevie WonderThe BeatlesPrincePeter Gabriel and others. A 1997 duet album with Wayne Shorter titled 1 + 1 was successful, the song “Aung San Suu Kyi” winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, and Hancock also achieved great success in 1998 with his albumGershwin’s World which featured inventive readings of GeorgeIra Gershwin standards by Hancock and a plethora of guest stars including Stevie WonderJoni Mitchell and Shorter. Hancock toured the world in the support ofGershwin’s World with a sextet that featured Cyro BaptistaTerri Lynne CarringtonIra ColemanEli Degibri and Eddie Henderson.