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Violet.
I am sitting here quietly stunned.
Herbie Hancock just won the best album of the year award
at tonight's Grammy Awards.
As but a rather average jazz pianist myself,
I am deeply moved to see Herbie respected and appreciated
at such a pop culture mainstream event.
It always saddens me to see
the truly wonderful & accomplished musicians of the world
under-appreciated and passed by
in favor of the day's high production pseudo-music fads and pop idols.
And this is consistantly and regularly the way of the world.
The REAL musicians are rarely recognized by the world at large.
While I have not yet heard "River: the Joni Letters"
It sounds like a truly artful endeavor of depth.
And what else would I expect?
That a TRULY great and accomplished musician such as Herbie
might actually win such an award is to me a sign of hope,
and also proof that mass witnessed miracles are in fact a thing of REALity.
Herbie Hancock just won the best album of the year award
at tonight's Grammy Awards.
As but a rather average jazz pianist myself,
I am deeply moved to see Herbie respected and appreciated
at such a pop culture mainstream event.
It always saddens me to see
the truly wonderful & accomplished musicians of the world
under-appreciated and passed by
in favor of the day's high production pseudo-music fads and pop idols.
And this is consistantly and regularly the way of the world.
The REAL musicians are rarely recognized by the world at large.
While I have not yet heard "River: the Joni Letters"
It sounds like a truly artful endeavor of depth.
And what else would I expect?
That a TRULY great and accomplished musician such as Herbie
might actually win such an award is to me a sign of hope,
and also proof that mass witnessed miracles are in fact a thing of REALity.
