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  • Takin' Off
  • My Point of View
  • Inventions & Dimensions
  • Empyrean Isles
  • Maiden Voyage
  • Blow-Up
  • Speak Like a Child
  • Hear, O Israel
  • The Prisoner
  • Fat Albert Rotunda
  • Mwandishi
  • Crossings
  • Sextant
  • Head Hunters
  • The Jewel in the Lotus
  • Thrust
  • Dedication
  • Death Wish [Original Soundtrack]
  • Man-Child
  • Flood
  • Secrets
  • V.S.O.P., Vol. 1
  • Tempest in the Colosseum
  • V.S.O.P.: The Quintet
  • Third Plane
  • Sunlight
  • The Herbie Hancock Trio [1977]
  • An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea: In Concert
  • An Evening with Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock
  • Five Stars
  • In Concert
  • Feets Don't Fail Me Now
  • Directstep
  • The Piano
  • Mr. Hands
  • Monster
  • Live Under the Sky
  • Magic Windows
  • Quartet
  • Lite Me Up
  • Herbie Hancock Trio [1982]
  • Future Shock
  • Sound-System
  • Perfect Machine
  • A Tribute to Miles
  • Dis Is Da Drum
  • The New Standard
  • 1+1
  • Return of the Headhunters!
  • Gershwin's World
  • Future 2 Future
  • Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
  • Possibilities
  • River: The Joni Letters
  • The Imagine Project

Release Date

1979

Duration

30:38

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

October 17, 1978 & October 18, 1978
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For the rabid audiophiles in Japan, Herbie Hancock went to Tokyo to record a direct-to-disc LP that later became one of the world's earliest CD releases. Due perhaps to the arduous one-take-only nature of the direct-to-disc process, Hancock takes the rare step of using a second keyboardist, Webster Lewis, to handle the multiple electronic textures; the rest of the cast is a quorum of Headhunters (Bennie Maupin, reeds; Paul Jackson, bass; Bill Summers, percussion), plus guitarist Ray Obiedo and drummer Alphonse Mouzon. Understandably, the music sometimes sounds a bit inhibited and structured, but there are some refreshingly jarring rhythmic disruptions in "Butterfly," "Shiftless Shuffle" eventually develops a fine roadhouse groove, and the extended "I Thought It Was You" cuts the original version on Sunlight. The LP sound is excellent, especially the rock-solid bass and drums.

Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Herbie Hancock / Jean Hancock / Bennie Maupin
Herbie Hancock
07:55 Amazon
2
Herbie Hancock / Paul Jackson / Bennie Maupin / Harvey Mason, Sr. / Bill Summers
Herbie Hancock
07:10 Amazon
3
Jeffrey Cohen / Herbie Hancock / Melvin Ragin
Herbie Hancock
15:33 Amazon
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