Herbie Hancock The New Standard - Mercy Street

1997 Warsaw Summer Jazz Days

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[AgentMurphy286]

honestly if you liked Herbie you'd know that this is what he'd write it like. he's a jazz composer what did you expect?

[TheJazzPianoGuy]

6 monsters...it really doesn't get any better than this.

improvisation at its finest

[snipethelevi]

this is brilliant, pure creativity right here

[speedskis777]

Rhythmic craziness... i love it

[pantiepreview]

It's easy to write mood out of music. But how would "Kind of Blue" sound if Metalica covered it? I don't think it is fair to boil the Gabriel version down to a few melodic motifs, and then say "this is mercy street". The only solid link between the two versions is the title.

But its groovy...just call it something original...and forget the pretence. OR call it mercy street regurgitated after eating jalapenos. also you guys have enough repertoire to " reinvent" without using Gabriel.

[IconiqueRecordings]

uhh no, the arrangement was not done in "5 minutes" the band rehearsed over a week or so at SIR/NYC, and then went into the studio and did multiple takes lasting from 15-25 mins. I then edited the best take together for the album without losing or ediiting any solos- Guy Eckstine

[jackdnp121]

great solo .... but still prefer the album version

[watashiwanachodes]

@awesomewelles90 so... you're saying that music genres case within their confines just a range of moods & emotions?

i do not agree with you.

herbie choose it to play it like that he want it to make that song his own and HE does manage a certain range of rythms and cadences so thats how he made it his.

[flowerdna]

Great piece of work. I would never had thought of Mercy Street for treatment in the jazz genre.

[nobodady1]

I tried to do a jazz arrangement of this tune, and finally decided it was so beautiful laying it more or less straight, and as a ballade. This is the last PG song I would want to submit to high chromaticism and polytonality. But of course, Herbie's solo is a brilliant one --- it's own composition, really.

[Latarek01]

kiedyś leciały takie koncerty na dwójce...

[awesomewelles90]

I think what blckclbrtn means is that the mood, feel and emotion of the original version are completely absent in this version. Apart from the tune it bears hardly any resemblance. I'm not saying it's bad though. It's just completely different. Like if you covered a jazz ballad in a death metal style. It would technically be the same song but the emotional content would likely be completely different.