The Essential Herbie Hancock
2006 greatest hits album by Herbie Hancock
The Essential Herbie Hancock | ||||
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Greatest hits album by Herbie Hancock | ||||
Released | 2006 | |||
Recorded | 1962–1998 | |||
Genre | Jazz, jazz fusion, R&B, acid jazz | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Herbie Hancock chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Tom Hull | B+[2] |
The Essential Herbie Hancock is the forty-sixth album by American jazz musician and pianist Herbie Hancock. It is part of Sony BMG's The Essential series. Unlike the box set The Herbie Hancock Box, this two-disc set is the first compilation of Hancock's music that included music from all the various recording labels for which Hancock recorded.
Track listing
Disc one
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Watermelon Man" (from Takin' Off, 1962) | 7:12 |
2. | "'Round Midnight" (from the Sonny Rollins album Now's the Time, 1964) | 4:03 |
3. | "Cantaloupe Island" (from Empyrean Isles, 1964) | 5:30 |
4. | "Maiden Voyage" (from Maiden Voyage, 1965) | 7:55 |
5. | "Circle" (from the Miles Davis Quintet album Miles Smiles, 1967) | 5:48 |
6. | "The Sorcerer" (from Speak Like a Child, 1968) | 5:38 |
7. | "Tell Me a Bedtime Story" (from Fat Albert Rotunda, 1970) | 5:01 |
8. | "Hidden Shadows" (from Sextant, 1973) | 10:11 |
9. | "Chameleon" (from Head Hunters, 1973) | 15:41 |
10. | "Joanna's Theme" (from Death Wish, 1974) | 4:43 |
Disc two
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Butterfly" (from Thrust, 1974) | 11:17 |
2. | "People Music" (from Secrets, 1976) | 7:08 |
3. | "Milestones" (from Herbie Hancock Trio, 1977) | 6:37 |
4. | "4 AM" (from Mr. Hands, 1980) | 5:22 |
5. | "Come Running To Me" (from Sunlight, 1978) | 8:24 |
6. | "Finger Painting" (from the V.S.O.P. album Five Stars, 1979) | 6:42 |
7. | "Stars In Your Eyes" (from Monster, 1980) | 7:05 |
8. | "Rockit" (from Future Shock, 1983) | 5:24 |
9. | "St. Louis Blues" (from Gershwin's World, 1998) | 5:50 |
10. | "Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love)" (from The New Standard, 1996) | 4:04 |
References
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- Takin' Off
- My Point of View
- Inventions & Dimensions
- Empyrean Isles
- Maiden Voyage
- Speak Like a Child
- The Prisoner
- Fat Albert Rotunda
- Mwandishi
- Crossings
- Sextant
- Head Hunters
- Dedication
- Thrust
- Man-Child
- Secrets
- Third Plane
- Herbie Hancock Trio
- Sunlight
- Directstep
- The Piano
- Feets, Don't Fail Me Now
- Monster
- Mr. Hands
- Magic Windows
- Herbie Hancock Trio
- Lite Me Up
- Quartet
- Future Shock
- Sound-System
- Village Life
- Perfect Machine
- A Tribute to Miles
- Dis Is da Drum
- The New Standard
- 1+1
- Gershwin's World
- Future 2 Future
- Possibilities
- River: The Joni Letters
- The Imagine Project
- Hear, O Israel - A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz
- Flood
- V.S.O.P.
- The Quintet (V.S.O.P.)
- Tempest in the Colosseum (V.S.O.P.)
- An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert
- CoreaHancock
- V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (V.S.O.P.)
- Jazz Africa
- Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
- Live: Detroit/Chicago
and Pepper Adams
- Out of This World (Pepper Adams Donald Byrd Quintet)
- Chant
- Royal Flush
- Free Form
- A New Perspective
- Seven Steps to Heaven
- My Funny Valentine
- Four & More
- E.S.P.
- Miles Smiles
- Sorcerer
- Nefertiti
- Miles in the Sky
- Water Babies
- Filles de Kilimanjaro
- In a Silent Way
- Jack Johnson
- On the Corner
- Big Fun
- Get Up with It
and Pat Metheny
- Moon Germs
- Penny Arcade
- Upon This Rock
- Night Dancing
Zawinul
- Treasure Chest (Herbie Hancock album)
- The Best of Herbie Hancock
- Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock
- The Essential Herbie Hancock
- "Watermelon Man"
- "Cantaloupe Island"
- "Maiden Voyage"
- "Chameleon"
- "Rockit"
- Blow-Up
- Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- Death Wish
- A Soldier's Story
- Round Midnight
- Action Jackson