The Essential Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock - The Essential Herbie Hancock

The Essential Herbie Hancock
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Artist: Herbie Hancock
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Watermelon
  2. 'Round Midnight
  3. Cantaloupe Island
  4. Maiden Voyage
  5. Circle
  6. The Sorcerer
  7. Tell Me a Bedtime Story
  8. Hidden Shadows
  9. Chameleon
  10. Joanna's Theme 4:47
Music CD 2
  1. Butterfly
  2. People Music
  3. Milestones
  4. 4 Am
  5. Come Running To Me
  6. Finger Painting
  7. Stars In Your Eyes
  8. Rockit
  9. St. Louis Blues
  10. Manhattan

Free Music Notes for The Essential Herbie Hancock

Free Music Review: What the waiter at the Herbie Hancock Restaurant said...
Hit: 4 Stars

"Good evening. Welcome to the HH restaurant. We have a number of special and regular menu items I'd like to tell you about. This evening we'll be starting you off with the Watermelon Man and Cantaloupe Island, two of our chef's most famous hits, after which I'd like to recommend the Maiden Voyage and The Sorcerer, where the chef branches out into some exploration of chords that before these dishes were invented, really had never been heard before. If you prefer some of the chef's more recent dishes, we have 4 A.M., a nice Manhattan, and of course the always dynamic People Music. If you prefer to experience the chef's skills and enjoy some more standard dishes, we have Milestones, Circle, `Round Midnight, and of course, St. Louis Blues. For dessert, we always recommend the Chameleon, which will take you at least 15 minutes to finish. If none of these are what you are looking for, there are several other selections available. I'll be back to take your order shortly."

Seriously, if you are looking for a sampling of Herbie's work because you just don't know where to start, this is probably a good choice for you, covering almost 40 years of Hancock's career. Keep in mind, though, that is twenty songs over a forty year period of a composer and performer who has been pulling jazz along behind for that entire time, so the treatment will be necessarily shallow. I still recommend this for finding one's likes and dislikes (very few people like ALL of Hancock's work; he got pretty esoteric there, along with Chick Corea, in the early days of synthesizers), and eventually, you'll want to pick up individual albums containing the songs you really like. For the casual listener and non-fan, however, this compilation offers a broad and satisfying sampling of a lot of different Herbie Hancock dishes. Bon appetit!

The Essential Herbie Hancock Poster

This 2-CD, 21-track compilation shows how keyboardist/composer/bandleader Herbie Hancock successfully crossed the boundaries of jazz and pop for four decades. Compiled from five record labels, from 1962 to 2000, tracks like "Circle" showcase his legendary stint in Miles Davis' mid-'60s acoustic combos, and "Maiden Voyage," and "Cantaloupe Island" are but two of his historic jazz compositions from his Blue Note period. But hits like his smash soul-fusion, 70s Headhunters cut, "Chameleon," the evocative "Come Running to Me," which featured the vocoder voice synthesizer, and the hip-hop anthem "Rockit," which broke through the MTV video barrier, garnered younger generations of fans. Not to be forgotten are his excellent movie themes, including his eerie 1986 Oscar-winning soundtrack "Round Midnight," his poppin' collaboration with bassist Jaco Pastorius on "4 A.M.," and his rhythmic rendezvous with Stevie Wonder on W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues." Herbie Hancock is essential, in any time or style. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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