comments from the synth player

[rzzzzz]

Happened upon Herbie Hancock's newly remastered Sextant. Really enjoyed his great keyboards, particularly the electro mechanical stuff (rhodes, mellotron and D-6). Just for grins I thought I'd check out some amazon reviews and found this:

 

" Look, it is indeed an innovative recording, and much credit is due Herbie for big ears and hearing what it was I was doing and incorporating it into his band (from Crossings to Sextant and a few guest recording appearances afterward, none of significance after Sextant). But, darnit, they weren't Herbie's innovations, they were mine. I fought my way into the band (even Herbie's rock/funk oriented producer, David Rubinson, initially had doubts), and when I first joined the band, Downbeat slammed Crossings, saying "the less said about the synth player the better," and then a year and a half later nominated me for outstanding new jazz artist and called me a pioneer of electronic jazz--which was literally true: I was the first guy there. But history has apparently decided otherwise (which is why we need better historians) and I've been "disappeared" in favor of a simpler story, where Herbie introduced synths to jazz. Not quite.

 

(Dr.)Patrick Gleeson (patrickgleeson.com) "

 

Giving this and Crossings another listen, gotta admit that the opulent Arp work on both is nothing less than fantastic. kudos Dr. Gleeson think there's room for credit all around.

[Tusker]

I don't see this on the web link you posted rzzz. The site looks to be down.

 

Let's Patrick gets that site up sometime. Loved his musings in Keyboard.

 

Jerry