Learn Herbie Hancock - 2014 The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972)

artist/herbie-hancock-mn0000957296">Herbie Hancock's iii albums for Warner Bros lead maintain been compiled before, well-nigh notably inwards Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings inwards 1994. The private titles lead maintain been reissued inwards diverse editions too formats since that time. There are several things that split upwards this mass (issued yesteryear Rhino) from its predecessor. The commencement is the package. The clamshell illustration contains each disc inwards its ain cardboard sleeve amongst master artwork. It also contains a lengthy seek yesteryear artist/bob-gluck-mn0001847145">Bob Gluck, writer of You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock & the Mwandishi Band. This gear upwards compiles non alone the recordings proper, but also alternate takes, promo edits -- both Mwandishi too Crossings contained iii long tracks each -- too a bonus track. Fat Albert Rotunda -- developed from a handful of tracks cutting for artist/bill-cosby-mn0000070534">Bill Cosby's Fat Albert cartoon present -- contains alternates of "Wiggle Waggle" too "Fat Mama." Issued inwards 1969, this funky soul-jazz session featured saxophonist artist/joe-henderson-mn0000139804">Joe Henderson, trumpeter artist/johnny-coles-mn0000201232">Johnny Coles, trombonist artist/garnett-brown-mn0000803730">Garnett Brown, bassist artist/buster-williams-mn0000943189">Buster Williams, too artist/albert-tootie-heath-mn0000612548">Albert "Tootie" Heath on drums inwards the primary group, amongst trumpeter artist/joe-newman-mn0000208035">Joe Newman, saxophonist artist/joe-farrell-mn0000125160">Joe Farrell, guitarist artist/eric-gale-mn0000188366">Eric Gale, too drummer artist/bernard-purdie-mn0000047401">Bernard Purdie guesting on several cuts. Disc 2 is the Mwandishi Band proper on its self-titled debut from 1970: alone artist/williams-mn0000943189">Williams too artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock provide from the previous date, joined yesteryear artist/bennie-maupin-mn0000790496">Bennie Maupin on reeds too winds, trumpeter artist/eddie-henderson-mn0000169948">Eddie Henderson, trombonist artist/julian-priester-mn0000840184">Julian Priester, too drummer artist/billy-hart-mn0000082751">Billy Hart. Various guitarists -- including artist/ronnie-montrose-mn0000333925">Ronnie Montrose too artist/leon-ndugu-chancler-mn0000378362">Leon "Ndugu" Chancler -- also guest. This disc includes promo edits for "Ostinato (Suite for Angela)" too "You'll Know When You Get There" every bit bonus cuts. Crossings, issued inwards 1972, added a farther bandmember inwards synth histrion artist/dr-patrick-gleeson-mn0000134560">Dr. Patrick Gleeson -- originally intended every bit a sideman, artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock was then impressed amongst his contributions he asked him to join, though he alone remained for this recording. The bonus cloth features the heavily edited (though no less hip) unmarried version of "Water Torture" too the set's treasure piece: the rare, non-album promo unmarried "Crossings," a spacy, funky groover that revealed the futurity direction of the ring which would tape Sextant for Columbia a twelvemonth later. This is the commencement fourth dimension the bonus cloth from Mwandishi too Crossings has been made available. While Fat Albert Rotunda is a boom inwards price of its groove quotient, the concluding 2 recordings, amongst their to a greater extent than complex, dissonant, too opened upwards explorations, are essential non alone for whatsoever artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock fan, but for lovers of '70s electrical jazz. The recordings are yet the well-nigh under-celebrated classics inwards the artist's catalog.

This is non the commencement fourth dimension that the 3 albums which Herbie Hancock recorded for Warner betwixt 1969-1972 lead maintain been compiled, but this lavish reissue re-ups the bar i time again, too it's non a surprise of class that this is courtesy the expert folks at Rhino.
"Herbie Hancock - The Warner Bros. years (1969-1972)" (3 CDs; eighteen tracks; 153 min.) starts amongst the 1969 album "Fat Albert Rotunda", which inwards add-on to its vii master tracks also incorporate choice (mono) takes from "Wiggle-Waggle" (issued every bit a single) too its B side "Fat Mama" (remember dorsum inwards those days many singles were released inwards mono, this was earlier FM became the mainstream radio channel. The 1970 album "Mwandishi" is musically quite a departure from the "Fat Albert" album, too pushes the envelope for electrical jazz, In add-on to the album's master 3 tracks, nosotros also teach previously unreleased promo edits of "Osinato (Suite for Angela)" (reducing the master running fourth dimension from xiii min. to half-dozen min.), too "You'll Never Know When You Get There" (also reduced to half-dozen min.). It's dainty to lead maintain those, although non essential. The tertiary album is 1972's "Crossings". Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 logical follow-up to "Mwandishi", it plays every bit fresh instantly every bit it did 40+ years ago. We teach the iii master tracks (including the epic "Sleeping Giant"), but the existent surprise is the bonus rails "Crossings", the championship rails that didn't characteristic on the album but was released every bit a unmarried instead. It sounds similar it jumped off of the "Shaft" soundtrack, simply terrific. Its B side, a 3 min. version of the master fourteen min. "Water Torture", is also included on here.
The 3 albums are packaged inwards the master album art (reduced for CD size), pregnant "Crossings" tin live on folded open. This reissue also contains a 28 page booklet amongst extensive too insightful liner notes/essay from Hancock-connoisseur Bob Gluck, pictures, too all the recording details of the diverse album tracks. Bottom line: this is a commencement cast reissue of the Herbie Hancock Werner Bros. albums. I wishing all reissues would live on done amongst the same attention too attending for detail. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!