Disc: 2
1971 "Mwandishi"
It is i of Hancock's get-go departures from the traditional idioms of jazz equally good equally the onslaught of a new, creative too master means which produced an appeal to a wider audience, earlier his 1973 album, Head Hunters. In addition, Mwandishi was Hancock's endeavor at continuing the musical principles too styles he began playing amongst Miles Davis on In Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Silent Way. Hancock's previous attempts at jazz-rock fusion included Fat Albert Rotunda, an album conceived alone for Bill Cosby's Fat Albert too the Cosby Kids.
Mwandishi was recorded at Wally Heider Recording Studios, inward San Francisco, California inward Dec 1970. It was originally recorded past times the Mwandishi Sextet that was built merely about Herbie Hancock too progressive notions of funk, jazz, too stone during this fourth dimension period.
The tracks on Mwandishi are "Ostinato," the time signature of which is 15/8, "You'll Know When You Get There", too "Wandering Spirit Song". "Wandering Spirit Song" features Hancock's extensive purpose of tension too release, whereby he builds the tension of the vocal past times increasing the total of musical voices too increasing crescendos, only to unloosen the tension amongst long held out chords on his synthesizer.
Mwandishi is a Swahili advert Hancock adopted during the slowly 1960s too early on 1970s. The members of the Sextet each adopted a Swahili name: Mchezaji/Buster Williams, Jabali/art" title="Learn Herbie Hancock - 1971 [2014] Mwandishi ">Billy Hart, Mganga/Eddie Henderson, Mwile/Bennie Maupin, Pepo Mtoto/Julian Priester, too Ndugu/Leon Chancler.
With the formation of his slap-up electrical sextet, artist/herbie-hancock-mn0000957296">Herbie Hancock's music took off into outer too inner space, starting amongst the landmark Mwandishi album recorded inward a unmarried session on New Year's Eve. Ever the gadgeteer, artist/herbie-mn0000957296">Herbie plays amongst electronic effects devices -- reverb units, stereo tremelo, too Echoplex -- which all atomic number 82 his music into spacier, open-ended directions rattling much influenced past times artist/miles-davis-mn0000423829">Miles Davis' electrical experiments, rendering it from post-bop conventions. There are merely 3 tracks: the insistent 15/4-meter Afro-electric-funk workout "Ostinato (Suite for Angela)," the inquisitive "You'll Know When You Get There" amongst its ethereal artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock voicings, too trombonist artist/julian-priester-mn0000840184">Julian Priester's "Silent Way"-influenced "Wandering Spirit Song," which eventually dips into tumultuous costless form. artist/eddie-henderson-mn0000169948">Eddie Henderson emerges equally a major trumpet soloist here, probing, jabbing, soliloquizing; artist/bennie-maupin-mn0000790496">Bennie Maupin comes over from artist/lee-morgan-mn0000226380">Lee Morgan's grouping to add together his ominous bass clarinet too thoughtful alto flute; too artist/buster-williams-mn0000943189">Buster Williams' bass too artist/billy-hart-mn0000082751">Billy Hart's flexible drums propel the beat section. artist/santana-mn0000295756">Santana's artist/jos%C3%A9-chepit%C3%B3-areas-mn0000268795">José Chepitó Areas too artist/leon-ndugu-chancler-mn0000378362">Leon "Ndugu" Chancler also add together funky percussive reinforcement to "Ostinato," along amongst guitarist artist/ron-montrose-mn0000333925">Ron Montrose. The group's collective empathy is remarkable, too artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock had only begun to probe the outer limits amongst this extraordinary music.
Track listing:
1. Ostinato (Suite For Angela)
2. You'll Know When You Get There
3. Wandering Spirit Song
4. Ostinato (Suite for Angela) [promo edit]
5. You'll Know When You Get There [promo edit]
Personnel:
Mwandishi / Herbie Hancock – Fender Rhodes piano
Mchezaji / Buster Williams – Bass
Jabali / Billy Hart – Drums
Mganga / Eddie Henderson – Trumpet, flugelhorn
Mwile / Bennie Maupin – Bass clarinet, alto flute, piccolo
Pepo Mtoto / Julian Priester – tenor trombone, bass trombone
Ronnie Montrose – Guitar on "Ostinato (Suite For Angela)"
Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums too percussion
Cepito / Jose Areas – congas too Timbales on "Ostinato (Suite For Angela)"
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