Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings
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Artist: Herbie HancockEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-11-22
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Wiggle-Waggle
- Fat Mama
- Tell Me A Bedtime Story
- Oh! Oh! Here He Comes
- Jessica
- Fat Albert Rotunda
- Lil' Brother
- Ostinato (Suite For Angela)
- You'll Know When You Get There
- Wandering Spirit Song
- Sleeping Giant: Part One/Part Two/Part Three/Part Four/Part Five
- Quasar
- Water Torture
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Free Music Review: Best jazz comp of all time
Hit: 5 Stars
This is probably the best jazz compilation of all time. It contains three albums from Hancock's 1969-1970 band, and covers funk and the avant-garde.
Disc one starts with the valuptious funk of the Fat Albert suite. A lot of this is based on blues-it is almost like the soundtrack work of Quincy Jones at the time. The music has great solos, and the band is loud and loose. They know how to keep a grits and butter feel while making music that is very accomplished and majestic. The baritone sax-so underused in jazz, provides extra meat to the playing. There is some fantastic ballad work as well.
Later, the set goes into post-Bitches Brew jamming, but the improvosations are focused well and the band reacts to one another with a concentration that anchors the music, never letting it drift into self-indulgence. The avant-garde work is as natural and genuine as the blues playing
The best aspect of this three album comp is that it actually works stunningly as one set of music. This band goes in a lot of different directions, but the musicians are so distinctive, all their work melds into a cohearent statement.
For under $20, this is one of the best buys you'll ever make.
Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings Poster
These two CDs include three LPs from 1969 to 1972, one of Herbie Hancock's most creative periods. The earliest album, Fat Albert Rotunda, features a fine sextet highlighted by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, like Hancock a master at maintaining strong rhythmic grooves while stretching outward. The later music, with a regularly working band, becomes increasingly expansive and exploratory. Like Miles Davis on Bitches Brew, Hancock was increasingly interested in layering rhythms and textures, emphasizing percussion, electric keyboards, and potent soloists, and broadening his palette of sounds to eventually include synthesizers. There are significant contributions from the inspiring drummer Billy Hart and some potent, if neglected, soloists in multireed player Bennie Maupin (also on Bitches Brew) and trombonist Julian Priester (a Sun Ra associate), who also provided the extended compositions "Water Torture" and "Wandering Spirit Song," respectively. This is a sometimes overlooked period in Hancock's music, bracketed by the quality of his earlier acoustic music, both with Davis and as a leader on Blue Note, and his later commercial success, but it's some of his most innovative work. --Stuart BroomerJazz Music CDs
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