Artist: Herbie Hancock
Title Of Album: The Piano
Year: 1979
Label: Columbia
Genre: Jazz
Quality: Flac+Cue+Log+Artwork
Total Time: 52:12
Total Size: 197 MB(+3%)
Artist: Herbie Hancock
Title Of Album: The Piano
Year: 1979
Label: Columbia
Genre: Jazz
Quality: Flac+Cue+Log+Artwork
Total Time: 52:12
Total Size: 197 MB(+3%)
Tracklist
1. My Funny Valentine
2. On Green Dolphin Street
3. Someday My Prince Will Come
4. Harvest Time
5. Sonrisa
6. Manhattan Island
7. Blue Otani
8. My Funny Valentine (Take 3)
9. On Green Dolphin Street (Take 2)
10. Someday My Prince Will Come (Take 3)
11. Harvest Time (Take 3)
Recorded after the funky fusion of Head Hunters, Thrust, Sextant,
and other electric albums, and before the dawn of «Rockit» and more
commercially viable and hip-hop-oriented material, Herbie Hancock
took time out in 1978 to touch base again with his piano. Recorded
completely solo, this set was issued only in Japan as the truly
awful Feets, Don’t Fail Me Now was issued stateside. A curious set,
the first half of the album features Hancock playing jazz standards
in truly elegant and restrained fashion. His treatments of «My
Funny Valentine,» «Green Dolphin Street,» and «Someday My Prince
Will Come» all tracks he performed as part of the Miles Davis
Quintet are elongated, morphed, and beautifully woven together as a
suite. The latter half of the recording is comprised of four
tracks, «Harvest Time,» «Sonrisa,» «Manhattan Island,» and «Blue
Otani,» all of which are originals. These pieces are concerned with
Hancock’s preoccupation with the piano as a solo instrument. They
are composed as formalist treatments that are extrapolated upon at
several different junctures, or «turning points,» within them. They
embody notions of classical music а la Anton Webern, blues, Erroll
Garner’s lyrical phrasing, and Bill Evans’ harmonic sensibilities.
They are, in sum, inseparable from one another and are usually
performed as a suite. This is a stunning triumph for Hancock, and
it’s too bad that the album has never been issued in the U.S., as
it would undoubtedly be a popular addition to his vast catalog.
About the closest one can come are the tracks from here included in
The Herbie Hancock Box. Maybe someday.-Thom Jurek