As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and electronic sounds into groundbreaking experiments that helped shape the American popular music that...
As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he...
Taken as a whole, the short features in On The Spirit Trail: One Man's Journey Into Nature & Art are powerful, moving, utterly honest and provocative. On page one in Nature readers enter the author's journey through Yosemite's awe-inspiring wilderness, move on to the Hoh Rainforest's shabby elegance, then to big game fishing in the torrential Gulf Stream off North Carolina's Outer Banks. Honoring the maternal instincts of bald eagles, the magical powers of honeybees, and the mysterious mystical fish anadromous salmonid readers then enter Machu Pichu and the way of the Inca. Part travelogue,...
Taken as a whole, the short features in On The Spirit Trail: One Man's Journey Into Nature & Art are powerful, moving, utterly honest and provocative....
