jazzdaly

Hi I was at the gig (in the front row) and it was indeed great. Jack DeJohnette was particularly impressive. The BBC broadcasted the gig in parts. I've had about 70 mins of the complete show for quite a while now. The complete show ran to over 2 hours. Here's the setlist of what I've got. As One/Allah be Praised/Allah be as One Spectrum Seven Steps to Heaven Emergency There are longer versions circulating in trading circles. From what I remember the also played Zoltan from Larry Young's Unity, Big Nick, something from In a Silent Way and a couple of others. Scofield announced that the gig was being broadcasted and joked that it would be available for download at various sites withing a couple of weeks, so I'm surprised they are releasing this show. I read somewhere that they were going to do a studio CD.

The group are also coming over to Europe (in May I believe) with 3 London gigs, one of which will be with orchestra. I'll be checking out their quartet gig (with Gary Thomas) in Poole. Directions in Music are not playing Europe this year. The groups in the UK are as follows: Herbie's new quartet, with Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Dave Carpenter and drummer Ritchie Barsay Herbie Hancock - Electronica Two Banks Of Four + Rinneradio + Kroyt Sat 28 May 7.30pm Herbie meets today’s groovemeisters. The influence and inspiration of Herbie Hancocks’s explorations into soul, funk, electric impro and the dancefloor have had an incalculable effect on today’s club culture - think Rockit, Future Shock and Headhunters, Watermelon Man and Canteloupe Island. Tonight, Herbie rounds up a posse of new electric range-riders. Two Banks of Four are producers Dillip Harris (Demus) and Rob Gallagher. Together with a terrific trio of vocalists and a rocking horn section they fuse a seductive mêlée of streetwise funk. Finland’s RinneRadio are another trip entirely - ‘a hard-edged techno band led by a cool jazz sax player’ (Melody Maker). Kroyt are in the vanguard of Norwegian nu electronica, industrial jazz with a futuristic aftertaste, sprawling across a fissure between electropop, jazz and art rock. Herbie Hancock + London Symphony Orchestra

Here's the line up playing in Cork the week before Ronnies Craig Handy alto sax, flute Wayne Escoffery tenor sax John Stubblefield tenor sax Jaleel Shaw alto sax Ronnie Cuber sax Eddie Henderson trumpet Alex Sipiagin trumpet Kenny Rampton trumpet Ku-umba Frank Lacy trombone/vocals Conrad Herwig trombone Earl McIntyre bass trombone/tuba David Kikoski piano Boris Koslov double bass Donald Edwards drums