Vintage Vision: The Futureshock of Herbie Hancock

BLACK MUSIC, especially jazz, has never been afraid of change. Since strutting out of the Storyville whorehouses where piano players and horn blowers created the new sounds in the social areas of ancient hoochie-coochie spots, jazz has gone from its traditional roots to explore various timbres, textures and tones. But from hot to cool, traditional to bebop, formal to avant-garde, sometimes jazz fans find it difficult to appreciate the next school of sound.