Herbie Hancock - Sextant
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Artist: Herbie HancockEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-08-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Rain Dance
- Hidden Shadows
- Hornets
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Free Music Review: (3.5 stars) Good album, but all ARP 2000's should be smashed with a sledgehammer
Hit: 4 Stars
You know what? If you can overlook the unneeded synthesizer dribblings all over the place, this isn't half bad. Sure, Patrick Gleeson's ARP 2000 deserves to be smashed up (the last four or five minutes of "Rain Dance" - otherwise a good, haunting composition - are devoted to his aimless ramblings on that monstrosity), but everyone else does fine here, as evidenced on the dark, twisted funk of "Hidden Shadows", which milks the B*tches Brew vibe for all of its worth. Here's another breakage of tradition: The worst song is the long experimental tour de force thingy. "Hornets" isn't bad by any means, but it's got too much ARP 2000 and a buzzing part that sounds too much like a kazoo (and not enough like a hornet). And there aren't really any changes in it, so it kind of gets dull after too long. The flugelhorn part is fantastic, though. It's just longwinded and sometimes irritating, that's all. So there's not a single bad song on this album - even "Hornets" has its moments - just a bit too much Patrick Gleeson. That's all.
Sextant Poster
Recorded with the sly, space-funky band that Herbie Hancock formed as Mwandishi (check out the two-CD Warner Bros. collection), Sextant is one of those cornerstone jazz CDs. It ranks with the best early, electric fusion for its fuzzing of textures, always used as bedrock for killer, roomy solos. A troika of horn greats can take much of the credit for the solos: trombonist Julian Priester, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, and saxist Bennie Maupin. Each generates great, dense ideas without betraying Hancock's eerie ambience and funky vibe. Yes, this is an aggregation of many 1970s-era ideas: renewed sense of Africanisms (at least in the band's naming), intensified percussive underpinnings, and a heap of rumbly rhythms that give props to everyone in neofunk jazz from Clyde Stubblefield to Funkadelic, albeit in a slowed, methodically rhythmic vein. Hancock's keyboards make fine clouds, as well as slinking shuffles. --Andrew BartlettJazz Music CDs
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