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James and the Jazz Legend - Herbie Hancock's New Album
Earlier this year, James recorded a track with Herbie Hancock, a man widely regarded as one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time. Herbie is a multi Grammy Award winning artist, previously part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet" and is best known for iconic work such as Cataloupe Island, Watermelon Man and Rockit.
Herbie specifically invited James to sing the classic Otis Redding/ Sam Cooke favourite 'A Change Is Gonna Come' to feature on his new album 'The Imagine Project', which is released this week.
The album was recorded in many locations around the world, drawing on cross-cultural interpretations of classic songs such as Imagine, Don't Give Up and The Times They Are A Changing. James' collaboration sits alongside those including Pink, India.Arie, John Legend, Oumou Sangaré and Dave Matthews amongst others.
James comments "It was a huge thrill to work with someone as legendary as Herbie Hancock and to record a classic song that is one of my all time favourites. The challenge was bringing something new to the best known versions, but I think that we have done that. Herbie is the most incredible musician and I'm honoured to be part of his unique work."
You can find out more about The Imagine Project by clicking here and seeing a Video teaser of the making of the album here.
Click here to buy on Amazon.
And Click here to buy the album on iTunes.
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James Morrison & Herbie Hancock
I'm not such as Herbie Hancock fan, but as Jame's sings in the song 'A change Is Gonna Come' I thought I'd buy it off Itunes for 99p. Once I did I was amazed by the way James sings this song amazingly. However, I'm not into jazz music a lot and the instruments playing in the background. Overall I'd rate it a three out of five stars.