Major flops

Is this still Jazz? With prominent musicians from different musical genres and different cultural backgrounds Herbie Hancock has recorded on this album songs from the pop canon. One could alone the next three lines fill loose naked name dropping, but without anything so testify (which I prefer to leave the record company). Superficially, one might initially behind any, calculated, inconsequential and incoherent suspect World Music Pop. But not at Hancock. For over a year he was on the road half the globe to make these recordings. There he went to his own words about nothing less than the concept of peace, not only in the large, but in small, private. Cultural diversity as enrichment, diversity as a fascination, not as a voltage source of conflict but of creativity and vitality. The unifying, peacemaking element is for a man like Hancock of course the music. Sounds pompous, but somehow I'll take him anyway from.

In fact, Hancock is unmistakable, of original style of piano and keyboard and its character as a leader, to allow sufficient space to musicians, the clip that holds it all together. Sometimes that's arg risky and dangerously close to the border to kitsch (and admittedly in moments probably know about it). The rendition of "Do not give up", he can add in my opinion nothing new to him with another Peter Gabriel song ("Mercy Street" to "The New Standard") is ever more successful. One criticism that can 'The Imagine Project' at least you can make some, is the squint by the market. In my opinion it has asked the massentauglichsten but also weakest pieces at the beginning, what was certainly calculus. Pink and Seal are for the vocals to my taste and the wrong choice (thank God had Elton John to cancel '). But after that it gets better and the CD contains but a few pearls which justify the purchase. "Tamitant Tilay / Exodus" is a real stroke of genius and so far my favorite song on this album, a song which simply eludes any pigeonholing.

I do not think that Herbie Hancock is a naive do-gooder. He had a goal that was too ambitious and that no one will ever achieve. But he probably also knows that he achieved nothing without this goal in mind. Not everything is managed on this record, his vision Hancock has failed. But this is it, at least in parts of wonderful music succeeded.

And daring, freedom, diversity, vitality, openness' which, however, is Jazz