Red, Red Rose: For Burns night

The great artist, tenor saxophonist, jazz composer, bandleader, professor, paterfamilias of the Scottish jazz scene Tommy Smith and his most enduring creation the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra celebrate Scotland's national poet and abiding …

Published: 25 Jan 2021. Updated: 3 years.

The great artist, tenor saxophonist, jazz composer, bandleader, professor, paterfamilias of the Scottish jazz scene Tommy Smith and his most enduring creation the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra celebrate Scotland's national poet and abiding spirit of the nation and the Caledonian diaspora Robert Burns who was born today in 1759 and marked at suppers in the evening on this day the world over are here with their moving instrumental version of the Geoffrey Keezer-arranged Robert Archibald Smith melody for the ages set to Burns' words, 'My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose.' Smith, also thinking of the power of poetry now, refers to poet Amanda Gorman in his words of introduction before he recites the Burns poem in the wintry scene filmed near 12th century Lanark. Drily amused just as he finishes, on hearing glacial noises off, he quips, glancing over his shoulder ''there the ice cracks in the distance.''

Tender is the night: Robert Burns, top, by Alexander Nasmyth, National Galleries, Scotland

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Herbie gets vaccinated and other takeaways from this weekend's Korg keyboardist supersummit

Herbie Hancock tells viewers of the Korg roundtable streamed this weekend that he's got his shot. In jovial form and showing his shoulder up to the web camera he says that he and his wife earlier this week after Joe Biden's inauguration went to the …

Published: 24 Jan 2021. Updated: 3 years.

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Herbie Hancock tells viewers of the Korg roundtable streamed this weekend that he's got his shot.

In jovial form and showing his shoulder up to the web camera he says that he and his wife earlier this week after Joe Biden's inauguration went to the Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles where they received their shots. He jokes to the other participants in the roundtable that he'll put in a good word for them to get the vaccine. Legendary players all, Herbie, Robert Glasper, James Poyser, Greg Phillinganes and Terrace Martin all play the same keyboard the ''nine engines'' Korg Kronos it also turns out. Chaired by an artist liaison guy from the firm, the Kronos, Herbie says, is his ''go-to instrument and has been that since it came out and even before.'' Glasper gives more insights and recalls that Herbie told him about the Kronos and round Herbie's house his was the first he played.

More on the roundtable. Herbie Hancock, photo: Korg