Grammy Album of the Year
By Tom Teicholz at 12 February, 2008, 10:22 pm
My congrats go out to the Grammy winning album of the year — Herbie Hancock’s “The River: The Joni Letters”, Herbie Hancock’s riffs on Joni Mitchell’s songs with vocals by Mitchell herself, Tina Turner, Luciana Souza among others.(Between us, Tina Turner’s vocal is amazing — who knew that the woman who never did anything soft and slow, would turn out to be Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald combined). This is the first Jazz record to win album of the year since Stan Getz several decades ago.
The Album of the year award is also shared by its producer Larry Klein, whom my readers may recall as the subject of a recent Tommywood column, “Rivers of Music.” This is really Klein’s year!
It was also great to hear Herbie’s shoutout to Ken Hertz and everyone at the law firm of Goldring, Hertz & Lichtenstein — Herbie was one of Ken & Fred Goldrings’s first clients (if not their first) and Ken was the one who suggested I profile Klein and who made the introduction.
So, a great tribute to Joni Mitchell, to Herbie Hancock and to Larry Klein — good work speaks for itself.
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