Browse by Artist: HANCOCK, HERBIE

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	OST Blow-Up
Label:	4 MEN WITH BEARDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	4M 122LP

"In late 1966, Herbie Hancock with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette entered a New York studio to capture the vibe of 'swinging London' in a jazz mode -- with grooves that create effective bluesy moods on the slow pieces and funky ones on the up-tempo tracks. Meanwhile in London, the Yardbirds (with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) were recording additional material for use in the Blow-Up movie soundtrack. Liner notes by maverick journalist Steve Dollar. Superb audiophile remastering." 180 gram HQ vinyl. Gatefold sleeve.

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Inventions & Dimensions
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BLP 4147LP

Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1964. Featuring Paul Chambers (bass), Willie Bobo (drums & timbales), Osvaldo "Chihuahau" Martinez (conga & bongo) and Hancock (piano). "For his third album, Inventions and Dimensions, Herbie Hancock changed course dramatically. Instead of recording another multifaceted album like My Point of View, he explored a Latin-inflected variation of post-bop with a small quartet. Hancock is the main harmonic focus of the music -- his three colleagues are bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Willie Bobo, and percussionist Osvaldo 'Chihuahua' Martinez, who plays conga and bongo. It is true that the music is rhythm-intensive, but that doesn't mean it's dance music. Hancock has created an improvisational atmosphere where the rhythms are fluid and the chords, harmonies, and melodies are unexpected. On every song but one, the melodies and chords were improvised, with Hancock's harmonic ideas arising from the rhythms during the recording. The result is risky, unpredictable music that is intensely cerebral and quite satisfying. Inventions and Dimensions displays his willingness to experiment and illustrates that his playing is reaching new, idiosyncratic heights." -- All Music

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Maiden Voyage
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BLP 4195LP

Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1965. Featuring Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), George Coleman (tenor sax), Ron Carter (bass) and Anthony Williams (drums). "This music attempts to capture its vastness and majesty, the splendor of a sea-going vessel on its maiden voyage, the graceful beauty of the playful dolphins, the constant struggle for survival of even the tiniest sea creatures, and the awesome destructive power of the hurricane, nemesis of seamen." -- Herbie Hancock

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	The Prisoner
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BST 84321LP

Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1969. "As one of the first albums Herbie Hancock recorded after departing Miles Davis' quintet in 1968, as well as his final album for Blue Note, The Prisoner is one of Hancock's most ambitious efforts. Assembling a nonet that features Joe Henderson (tenor sax, alto flute), Johnny Coles (flugelhorn), Garnett Brown (trombone), Buster Williams (bass), and Albert 'Tootie' Heath (drums), he has created his grandest work since My Point of View. Unlike that effort, The Prisoner has a specific concept -- it's a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, evoking his spirit and dreams through spacious, exploratory post-bop." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Inventions & Dimensions
Label:	HEAVENLY SWEETNESS (FRANCE)
Format:	LP
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	HS 021LP

Vinyl-only release. Herbie Hancock's 1963 album Inventions & Dimensions is part of the Blue Note reissue series from Paris' Heavenly Sweetness label. All releases in the series are pressed on super-heavy 180 gram vinyl in high quality "jazz" sleeves. Uniquely more pared-down than Hancock's other Blue Note titles, Inventions & Dimensions features improvised pieces over some swishy, Latin-jazz percussion. Players include bassist Paul Chambers and Latin percussionists Willie Bobo and Osvaldo "Chihuahau" Martinez. Starting from mere sketches, this album evolves into a completely original foray into new colors, rhythms and forms, with long pieces that take your jazz-head on an unusual journey. On 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Crossings
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BS 2617HLP

Forget about it: originally released in 1972, this is the Herbie Hancock album. Gatefold 180 gram exact repro reissue manufactured by Rhino. "With the frenzied knocking of what sounds like a clock shop gone berserk, Crossings takes the Herbie Hancock Sextet even further into the electric avant-garde, creating its own idiom. Now, however, the sextet has become a septet with the addition of Dr. Patrick Gleeson on Moog synthesizer, whose electronic decorations, pitchless and not, give the band an even spacier edge. Again, there are only three tracks ? the centerpiece being Hancock's multi-faceted, open-structured suite in five parts called 'Sleeping Giant.' Nearly 25 minutes long yet amazingly cohesive, 'Sleeping Giant' gathers a lot of its strength from a series of funky grooves -- the most potent of which explodes at the tail-end of Part Two -- and Hancock's on-edge Fender Rhodes electric piano solos anticipate his funk adventures later in the '70s. Bennie Maupin's 'Quasar' pushes the session into extraterrestrial territory, dominated by Gleeson's wild Moog effects and trumpeter Eddie Henderson's patented fluttering air trumpet. Even stranger is Maupin's 'Water Torture,' which saunters along freely with splashes of color from Hancock's spooky Mellotron and fuzz-wah-pedaled Fender Rhodes piano, Gleeson's electronics, and a quintet of voices." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Fat Albert Rotunda
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WB 1834HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. Herbie Hancock's eighth album, originally released in 1969, featuring Joe Henderson (alto flute, tenor sax), Johnny Coles (trumpet, fluegel horn), Garnet Brown (trombone), Tootie Heath (drums), Buster Williams (acoustic & electric bass) and Hancock (piano). "...a jazzed up finger-popping blast of vintage late-'60s funk, served up with all the compositional sophistication and technical mastery you'd expect from an old Herbie Hancock record. This highly danceable album features instrumental arrangements every bit as engaging and complex as those found on The Prisoner, the final album he recorded for Blue Note earlier that year. But unlike The Prisoner, with its dark and brooding undercurrents, Fat Albert Rotunda is an exuberantly friendly and upbeat joy of an album. Far from being frivolous in tone, the album has a soulful depth which is generously fleshed out by a moody pair of down tempo tracks, 'Tell Me A Bedtime Story' and 'Jessica.'" -- MustHear

Artist:	HANCOCK, HERBIE
Title:	Mwandishi
Label:	WARNER BROTHERS
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WS 1898HLP

180 gram exact repro reissue, originally released in 1971. "With the formation of his great electric sextet, Herbie Hancock's music took off into outer and inner space, starting with the landmark Mwandishi album recorded in a single session on New Year's Eve. Ever the gadgeteer, Herbie plays with electronic effects devices -- reverb units, stereo tremelo, and Echoplex -- which all lead his music into spacier, open-ended directions very much influenced by Miles Davis' electric experiments, rendering it from post-bop conventions. There are just three tracks: the insistent 15/4-meter Afro-electric-funk workout 'Ostinato (Suite for Angela),' the inquisitive 'You'll Know When You Get There' with its ethereal Hancock voicings, and trombonist Julian Priester's 'Silent Way'-influenced 'Wandering Spirit Song,' which eventually dips into tumultuous free form." -- All Music Guide

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