Excerpt from the LP liner notes:
"I idea it would live on impossible to larn people similar Tony Williams or Ron Carter or Wayne Shorter or Freddie Hubbard inwards the same room at the same time, because thence many of them are band leaders themselves. Wayne had told me afterward that he hadn't played that mode inwards years - lots of fast 8th notes in addition to long running flowing lines. This was genuinely straight off ahead jazz - walking bass, a swinging drum musical rhythm out - precisely expressed through experiences of the musicians today. I idea of the days at Birdland when I used to sit down inwards amongst Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan or Freddie Hubbard. Freddie genuinely played on my kickoff album, "Taking Off," in addition to in addition to then played on 'Empyrean Lsles' in addition to 'Maiden Voyage.' I played on Freddie's albums, in addition to it made logical sense to me to accept Freddie Hubbard on trumpet. H5N1 foreign thing happened when I went on phase amongst the kickoff group. As nosotros started to play, I got the feeling that no affair what I would play, these musicians were thence gifted that they could brand music out of anything. The feeling of liberty that came over me was overwhelming.
The Sextet that I used to accept from 1969 through 1973, played non exclusively the music it had created, precisely all of the really kickoff music from when I kickoff left Miles Davis inwards 1968, in addition to got my ain band together. The Sextet has a exceptional house inwards my heart. I was doing the album 'Speak Like a Child' in addition to I used flugelhorn, likewise flute in addition to bass trombone every bit an experiment. The audio killed me thence much I realized, that's the audio I desire for my ain band. The most hard innovation to recapture was the Sextet, because of how it was originally built. The Sextet's really foundations was the intuition, empathy, teamwork, unity, in addition to spontaneous inventiveness of the members of a truthful ensemble. From the slow sixties until 1973 nosotros had been hanging out together, studying non exclusively music precisely life. We explored together, trying to analyze the creative process. We grew on each other; nosotros became similar i in addition to the music became similar one. Billy Hart had to come upwards the farthest. He was working inwards London amongst Stan Getz, in addition to the 29th was his i black off. Somehow he managed to wing correct from London to New York, rehearse, play the concert in addition to larn dorsum on a bird for London. When the Sextet was at its best, the whole grouping was similar a living body. It was a music of the moment, no regular changes, bars, or fifty-fifty tempo - precisely somehow, most miraculously, the music would accept a menses in addition to companionship that made me experience similar I was listening to the audio from all the planets. Trying to recapture that spirit was difficult, precisely it came off - it was genuinely swinging.
I suppose individual from the twenties or thirties wouldn't telephone cry upwards whatever of the 3 groups Jazz. There are people today who don't telephone cry upwards the funk grouping a Jazz group. I hear that grouping incorporating jazz in addition to funk into a really happy marriage. The 3rd band is genuinely my introduce band. At that fourth dimension I had been using Ken Nash on percussion, in addition to inwards add-on to Wah Wah nosotros had Ray Parker on guitar, since he had been recording amongst us. Of course of teaching Bennie Maupin was i of our sextet, in addition to is nonetheless playing amongst me now. The funk - at nowadays that music has such potent roots inwards the Earth. With all the earthiness there's ever room for flight. The biggest argue I bask playing this novel sort of funk is the contrasts betwixt the broad opened upwards improvisation in addition to the funky foundation at the bottom. It gives the music a grapheme that is broad, vast, yet inwards behaviour upon amongst people."
- Herbie Hancock
Track listing
- "Piano Introduction" - 4:33
- "Maiden Voyage" (Hancock) - 13:18
- "Nefertiti" (Shorter) - 5:17
- "Introduction of Players/Eye of the Hurricane" (Hancock) - 18:35
- "Toys" (Hancock) - 14:00
- "Introductions" - 1:47
- "You'll Know When You Get There" (Hancock) - 7:00
- "Hang Up Your Hang Ups" (Hancock, Jackson, Ragin) - 11:54
- "Spider" (Hancock, Jackson, Ragin) -10:12
Tracks 1-4 performed past times V.S.O.P., Tracks 5-7 performed past times Mwandishi, Tracks 8-9 performed past times the Headhunters.
Personnel
Musicians
- arter" title="Learn Herbie Hancock - 1977 V.S.O.P.">Ron Carter – bass
- Herbie Hancock – electrical piano
- art" title="Learn Herbie Hancock - 1977 V.S.O.P.">Billy Hart – drums
- Eddie Henderson – flugelhorn, audio effects, trumpet
- Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
- Paul Jackson – electrical bass
- James Levi – drums
- Bennie Maupin – alto flute
- Kenneth Nash – percussion
- Ray Parker, Jr. – guitar
- Julian Priester – bass trombone
- Wayne Shorter – soprano sax, tenor sax
- Wah Wah Watson – guitar, synthesizer
- Buster Williams – bass
- Tony Williams – drums
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