Pipe Organ Improvisation Gerre Hancock St. Thomas Church NYC

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Uploaded by on Mar 18, 2008

Hancock & Cochereau -- the two greatest improvisers of the late 20th Century. Each with his own distinctive style.

Recorded in 1976, on the IV/156 Skinner of 1913 (with some revisions over the years by Adams/Mann & Trupiano).

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  • Working with Gerre was a joy,to hear him play was the best time of the day or evening to be at work at St.Thomas Church.Many Thanks Gerre.From Jerry G.

  • I have yet to run across anyone who's been associated with Gerre who didn't think he was a prince. That's kind of a nice legacy to have, isn't it? When you add that to his skills as a performer & improviser & choir director, he's a pretty impressive guy.

  • I remember watching Gerre play in Cincinnati at the Chuch of Christ when I was 12. He was and is the greatest pipe organist I've ever seen or heard. E. Power Biggs... eat your heart out (lol)

  • And a really nice guy, too (not that Biggs wasn't ;-)

  • Gerre Hancock: the greatest improviser America has ever produced.  If you can find any of his recordings, buy them. The man's a genius -- and a really nice guy, too.

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  • RIP Gerre Hancock the world will miss a great musician

  • rip  gerry

  • RIP

  • Requisat in Pace...we have lost the greatest

  • He will always remain in our memories through his recordings. Heaven will now have someone to plan Evensong forever.

  • Am weeping as I listen. So glad he can continue touching our lives through all the great recordings.

  • The world has lost one of it's greatest organists. Rest in Peace.

  • Rest in perpetua

  • Rest in peace, great one!

  • @ny1news - Cochereau could be predictable and bombastic, but Hancock was never as you described.

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