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Buy Now	The Best of Herbie Hancock: The Blue Note Years (more) »rank: 40318 by: Herbie Hancock :Album Description:Mirroring his onetime boss and mentor Miles Davis' own protean output, Herbie Hancock has explored hard-bop, soul-jazz, fusion, funk-rock, soundtracks, hip-hop-inflected pop ('Rockit'), and many permutations in between. His early work for Blue Note, though, offers the best entrie for newcomers. Compiled from five of his albums for the label and covering a period from 1962-1968, this fine sampler includes highlights off his debut, Takin' Off ('Watermelon Man'), the classic Maiden Voyage (the title track and 'Dolphin Dance'), and the early electric album Speak Like a Child (the title track and 'Riot'). Add to this more indelible cuts like 'Cantaloupe Island' and ...	Buy Now	The Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68: The Complete Columbia Studio (more) »rank: 48755 by: Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams :Album Description:Mirroring his onetime boss and mentor Miles Davis' own protean output, Herbie Hancock has explored hard-bop, soul-jazz, fusion, funk-rock, soundtracks, hip-hop-inflected pop ('Rockit'), and many permutations in between. His early work for Blue Note, though, offers the best entrie for newcomers. Compiled from five of his albums for the label and covering a period from 1962-1968, this fine sampler includes highlights off his debut, Takin' Off ('Watermelon Man'), the classic Maiden Voyage (the title track and 'Dolphin Dance'), and the early electric album Speak Like a Child (the title track and 'Riot'). Add to this more indelible cuts like 'Cantaloupe Island' and ...
Buy Now	Sextant (more) »rank: 14030 by: Herbie Hancock : essential recording: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 ...	Buy Now	Gershwin's World (more) »rank: 41721 by: Herbie Hancock : :Perhaps the most ambitious of album tributes to George Gershwin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, Gershwin's World earns its title by encompassing not only jazz versions of key pop songs from his catalog and a version (with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) of his Prelude in C-Sharp Minor but also reminding us of the composer's sources in everything from Ellington, W.C. Handy, and stride pianist James P. Johnson to Ravel. Those four are represented by versions of key pieces that affected Gershwin, in a bid to place his achievement in a context that is often discussed but perhaps too ...
Buy Now	Man-Child (more) »rank: 32311 by: Herbie Hancock :Album Description:1992 digitally remastered edition of one of the best regarded of all the keyboard wizard's solo albums.	Buy Now	Speak Like a Child (more) »rank: 74549 by: Herbie Hancock :Album Description:One of the most beautiful and unusual albums in Herbie Hancock's vast discography, this 1968 set features a trio with Ron Carter and Mickey Roker supported by an unusual horn section (Thad Jones on fluegelhorn, Peter Phillips on bass trombone and Jerry Dodgion on alto flute) that does not solo but provides inventive Gil Evans-inspired voicings. Miles Davis had recorded two of these tunes ('Riot' and 'The Sorcerer') the previous year, but they take on a whole different approach here. Three alternate takes, previously available only in a Hancock box set, are included on the gorgeous Van Gelder remaster. * bonus tracks, ...
Buy Now	Future Shock (more) »rank: 12905 by: Herbie Hancock :Album Description:One of the most beautiful and unusual albums in Herbie Hancock's vast discography, this 1968 set features a trio with Ron Carter and Mickey Roker supported by an unusual horn section (Thad Jones on fluegelhorn, Peter Phillips on bass trombone and Jerry Dodgion on alto flute) that does not solo but provides inventive Gil Evans-inspired voicings. Miles Davis had recorded two of these tunes ('Riot' and 'The Sorcerer') the previous year, but they take on a whole different approach here. Three alternate takes, previously available only in a Hancock box set, are included on the gorgeous Van Gelder remaster. * bonus tracks, ...	Buy Now	Crossings (more) »rank: 42119 by: Herbie Hancock :Album Description:2001 reissue of 1971 album, remastered from the original analogue tapes and packaged in a digipak. Currently out-of-print in the U.S. 3 tracks. Approx. 45 minutes.
Buy Now	The New Standard (more) »rank: 44883 by: Herbie Hancock :Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.	Buy Now	The Piano (more) »rank: 32198 by: Herbie Hancock :Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.