Herbie Hancock Discography
At the moment, I’d be inclined to call Herbie Hancock the greatest jazz pianist of his generation. The early Blue Note recordings are…
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Herbie Hancock: Takin’ Off (1963)
Double H comes out swinging on his first solo set with a pair of horns (Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon) that any head would…
Herbie Hancock: My Point of View (1963)
Kronomyth 2.0: BLIND WATERMELON. Herbie shuffles the lineup but plays pretty much the same cards on My Point of View. His second album…
Herbie Hancock: Inventions & Dimensions (1964)
Kronomyth 3.0: AVANT GOURD. Herbie Hancock’s third album, and first since joining the Miles Davis Quintet, finds the pianist in an experimental mood…
Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles (1964)
Kronomyth 4.0: EMPIRICAL MILES. This is the first truly great Herbie Hancock record, featuring the current Miles Davis lineup with Freddie Hubbard as…
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (1965)
Kronomyth 5.0: WATER YOU’RE WAITING FOR. If time had been a kinder mistress, I might have waxed soft and eloquent about so many…
Wayne Shorter: Adam’s Apple (1966)
Kronomyth 7.0: SAX APPLE. The earlier Blue Note albums (Juju, Speak No Evil, The All-Seeing Eye) basically amounted to program music around the…
Herbie Hancock: Speak Like A Child (1968)
Kronomyth 7.0: NOW WE ARE SIX. You never forget the first time you have a sextet. Herbie Hancock had poured most of his…
Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi (1971)
Kronomyth 10.0: I CHANT BE GONE LONG, YOU COME TOO. Untethered and touching all of the cosmos at once. That’s the impression I…
Joe Zawinul: Zawinul (1971)
A way bitchin’ solo album/tone poem from Z that pre-dates the Weather Report gig and features Miroslav Vitous, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.
Herbie Hancock: Crossings (1972)
Kronomyth 11.0: STAR TREK. Herbie Hancock continued his experiments in fusion by mixing jazz, funk and electronic space music on Crossings. While I…
Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarrett/McCoy Tyner (1976)
This elpee was a source of speculation for years, as I wondered what such a serendipitous summit of ivory merchants might sound like…
Chick Corea: The Mad Hatter (1978)
I’m a sucker for program music, even when the pretense to a program is pretty flimsy, as it is here. Without the concept…