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A project of the V-Note Jazz Collective ca. 1964

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🎥 Herbie Hancock & Mwandishi Sextet performing Wiggle Waggle live at Molde Jazz Festival, 1971 (1/4)

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Peterson named the new song "Hymn to Freedom" in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., and after Harriette Hamilton wrote accompanying lyrics a year later, it became an unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. #juneteenth

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🎥 Celebrating Juneteenth with the "Hymn To Freedom" by Oscar Peterson, Live in Denmark,1964. Featuring: Oscar Peterson on Piano, Ray Brown on Bass, Ed Thigpen on Drums. (Continued)

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Night Train’s only original Oscar Peterson composition, "Hymn to Freedom," was written on the spot in the studio to close the album, following Norman Granz’s suggestion that the band include a song with a "definitive early-blues feel." (Continued)

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Thank you to all the amazing people that made this beautiful film come to life. 🙏🏿 Special thank you to the extremely talented @NKIRUNKIRU for visually capturing exactly what I wanted to convey and beyond!

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🎥 Freddie Hubbard performing a flugelhorn solo in "Here's that rainy day" with the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris, March 25th, 1973.

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"It's about trusting yourself to respond on the fly. If you can allow yourself to do that, you never stop exploring, you never stop learning, in music or in life." -Herbie Hancock in Possibilities (2014) with Lisa Dickey, p. 2

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Celebrating the birthday of the great @herbiehancock , who was born this day in 1940!

📷 Herbie Hancock Séance photo à Antibes Juan-les-Pins , 1963. Photograph by Jean-Pierre Leloir

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"We all have natural human tendency to take the safe route—to do the thing we know will work—rather than taking a chance. But that's the antithesis of jazz, which is all about being in the present. Jazz is about being in the moment, at every moment." (Continued)

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🎥 Jaco Pastorius on piano and keyboard performing "Liberty City" live at the "So What?" TV show Belgium (1985)

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🎥 Stanley Clarke & Tony Williams performing "Day Waves" with the Stan Getz Quartet Live at the @montreuxjazz , Switzerland, 1972.

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After an additional year in Europe, he joined the Heath Brothers band (1975-1978) and then settled in Los Angeles, where Tootie Heath continued freelancing, recording with the Riverside Reunion Band.

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Peaceful journey and rest in power Tootie Heath! May 31, 1935 - April 3, 2024 🕊️
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He lived in Europe in 1965-1968 (working frequently with Kenny Drew, Dexter Gordon, and backing touring Americans), and, after returning to the U.S., he played regularly with Herbie Hancock's sextet (1968-1969) and Yusef Lateef (1970-1974).