Herbie Hancock - Piano
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Artist: Herbie HancockEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-09-21
Music Label: Sony
Product features:
- HANCOCK HERBIE THE PIANO
- My Funny Valentine
- On Green Dolphin Street
- Someday My Prince Will Come
- Harvest Time
- Sonrisa
- Manhattan Island
- Blue Otani
- My Funny Valentine (TK3 Alternate)
- On Green Dolphin Steet (T2K Alternate)
- Someday My Prince WIll Come (TK3 Alternate)
- Harvest Time (TK3 Alternate)
Music reviews of Piano
Music Review: Water impressions on a theme of Hancock and Davis
Rating: 5 Stars
The 1960's were a turbulent time in America. Riots, marches, and other types of protest were constantly forming. People wanted racism to end. Citizens wanted an end to war and violence. During this transformation, a new sound took over America. The Beetles and the Rolling Stones helped user a new pop music-Rock n' Roll. On another front, the sound of Motown (Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, Mavin Gaye, The Temptations, The Four Tops and more) became popular in urban America.
In 1960's jazz, there were a handful of young emerging jazz pianists that were regarded as `masters' in their craft. These pioneers combined elements of rock, soul (Motown), classical, and more into their comping (playing). These pianists included McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock.
Herbie Hancock started in the 1960's as a pianist to backup Miles Davis. His playing was a match of the fluid touch of Bill Evans (see Kind of Blue) and the blues-rooted approach of Wynton Kelly (see Someday My Prince Will Come). Seeming unusual for a jazz player to think so `out of the box', Herbie managed to gain wide acceptance through his playing with Miles (look at the box set The Second Great Quintet) and a host of releases he did for Blue Note records (see The Complete 1960's Blue Note Recordings).
As the 1970's ushered in the electronic piano, Herbie quickly took to it as his new weapon. He slashed out mega pop hits such Chameleon and Watermelon Man (which was really a song he did on Blue Note in the 1960's) as well as the soundtrack for Death Wish.
In the start of the "Direct to Disc" age of vinyl recording (1979 to be exact), Herbie recorded a few albums that featured him on acoustic piano to the Japanese public. Americans didn't get it; why did he only give Americans electric music and gave Japanese acoustic work (an exception to that is the VSOP album, but that's only one)? Many American `acoustic Herbie' fans paid high shipping prices to get these treasures in their homes.
25 years later, Columbia has saved the day. This re-release of The Piano is sonically excellent. With silent backgrounds and clear piano intonation and reverb; it makes you wonder if records sounded this good back in 1979 why did we ever give them up?
Herbie's playing on this recording is not exactly what you expect from him. He usually gives you progressions and scales that make you think, "Dah heck?? Let me wind that back and hear that again . . . Ok . . . . AHH! HE DIDN'T JUST RESOLVE THAT WAY!" This round, the sound is more easy listening and much more melodic. He employs a mostly-melodic approach to his music here and it sounds serene and atmospheric.
Is this the same Herbie you have heard before? Yes. However, this is a lot more peaceful and subtle than what you have heard with Miles or even in the Sextant. The Man-child prodigy, in 1979, allowed his classical training and Evans influenced melodic approach dominate the 7 pieces he did (the last 5 are alternate takes of previous ones).
I encourage anyone who want to hear him play by himself to get this recording. However, this isn't Herbie as usual; this is the reflective side of Herbie.
On the cover, there's a picture of a river. This is an appropriate picture. The music is fluid, a bit blue, and very reflective. Forget Handel---this is true water music.
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