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Published: 2010/08/06

by Bill Murphy

Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project

Hancock/Red

As one of the most covered songs in modern rock history, John Lennon’s “Imagine” has become the peace sign-flashing anthem for human rights causes everywhere—a merging of messages that doesn’t always translate into great art, but in Herbie Hancock’s case, it does draw great talent. The Grammy-winning jazz legend conceived of The Imagine Project as a tribute to our ability to bridge differences through the “universal language” of music. Where the album really succeeds, though, is in accenting the strengths of such artists as Derek Trucks, Dave Matthews, Jeff Beck and Chaka Khan, along with the far-flung sounds of Malian desert rockers Tinariwen and Congolese electro-kalimbists Konono N°1, among others. Susan Tedeschi’s stripped-bare take with Trucks on the Joe Cocker classic “Space Captain” is one of the standouts, as is the meditative journey of “The Song Goes On” (based on a Rilke poem, with Khan, Wayne Shorter and Anoushka Shankar )—a testament to music’s transformative power if there ever was one.

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Hava May 10, 2012, 16:38:58

I feel this video was incredibly great and I’m plaseed it exists. Thank you.Titties, guns, rally driving, some park tricks that I could once do, some SLEDDING, some decent pow (nice three and fronty btw), some flying; all in all, highly entertaining. Really liked the drift with the sled trailer where the driver kind of slashes the bank with the trailer that was great. There were too many great moments in this video, actually I’m going to watch it again.I didn’t read all the comments, but I assume many of them were highly critical. Please note: It’s all Relative! everyone is a hypocrite! You ski pow? guess what? there is a granny out there who hates you and wants you dead because she feels that SAR is spending her tax dollars on people like you rather than on her palliative care! You drive 10 mph over the speed limit?! Guess what? there is some cop out there who hates you and wants you in prison for even thinking about breaking the law even a law as trivial as a municipal speed restriction. You live in America (or even Western society)? Guess what? there is an entire civilization out there that wants you dead for putting up with a culture that tolerates pornography, insobriety, and mass consumerism. It’s all relative. You think you may be a law abiding citizen not harming anybody. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Everything you do has a critic. Everything you do pisses somebody off out there. And not just a little bit your very life annoys someone, somewhere to the point that they want to see you dead. Again: it’s all relative. This movie now exists. It’s not going away. Chances are your life will not be affected by it in any way. Deal with it.