Herbie Hancock's 3 albums for Warner Bros get got been compiled before, almost notably inwards
Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings inwards 1994. The private titles get got been reissued inwards diverse editions as well as formats since that time. There are several things that split upwards this mass (issued past times Rhino) from its predecessor. The outset is the package. The clamshell illustration contains each disc inwards its ain cardboard sleeve amongst master artwork. It also contains a lengthy try past times
Bob Gluck, writer of
You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock & the Mwandishi Band. This gear upwards compiles non solely the recordings proper, but also alternate takes, promo edits -- both
Mwandishi as well as
Crossings contained 3 long tracks each -- as well as a bonus track.
Fat Albert Rotunda -- developed from a handful of tracks cutting for
Bill Cosby's
Fat Albert cartoon present -- contains alternates of "Wiggle Waggle" as well as "Fat Mama." Issued inwards 1969, this funky soul-jazz session featured saxophonist
Joe Henderson, trumpeter
Johnny Coles, trombonist
Garnett Brown, bassist
Buster Williams, as well as
Albert "Tootie" Heath on drums inwards the primary group, amongst trumpeter
Joe Newman, saxophonist
Joe Farrell, guitarist
Eric Gale, as well as drummer
Bernard Purdie guesting on several cuts. Disc 2 is the Mwandishi Band proper on its self-titled debut from 1970: solely
Williams as well as
Hancock provide from the previous date, joined past times
Bennie Maupin on reeds as well as winds, trumpeter
Eddie Henderson, trombonist
Julian Priester, as well as drummer
Billy Hart. Various guitarists -- including
Ronnie Montrose as well as
Leon "Ndugu" Chancler -- also guest. This disc includes promo edits for "Ostinato (Suite for Angela)" as well as "You'll Know When You Get There" every bit bonus cuts.
Crossings, issued inwards 1972, added a farther bandmember inwards synth histrion
Dr. Patrick Gleeson -- originally intended every bit a sideman,
Hancock was as well as hence impressed amongst his contributions he asked him to join, though he solely remained for this recording. The bonus textile features the heavily edited (though no less hip) unmarried version of "Water Torture" as well as the set's treasure piece: the rare, non-album promo unmarried "Crossings," a spacy, funky groover that revealed the futurity administration of the ring which would tape
Sextant for Columbia a twelvemonth later. This is the outset fourth dimension the bonus textile from
Mwandishi as well as
Crossings has been made available. While
Fat Albert Rotunda is a nail inwards damage of its groove quotient, the terminal 2 recordings, amongst their to a greater extent than complex, dissonant, as well as opened upwards explorations, are essential non solely for whatsoever
Hancock fan, but for lovers of '70s electrical jazz. The recordings are yet the almost under-celebrated classics inwards the artist's catalog.
This is non the outset fourth dimension that the 3 albums which Herbie Hancock recorded for Warner betwixt 1969-1972 get got been compiled, but this lavish reissue re-ups the bar in i lawsuit again, as well as it's non a surprise of course of didactics that this is courtesy the skilful folks at Rhino.
"Herbie Hancock - The Warner Bros. years (1969-1972)" (3 CDs; xviii tracks; 153 min.) starts amongst the 1969 album "Fat Albert Rotunda", which inwards improver to its vii master tracks also incorporate choice (mono) takes from "Wiggle-Waggle" (issued every bit a single) as well as 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 divergence from the "Fat Albert" album, as well as pushes the envelope for electrical jazz, In improver 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 thirteen min. to vi min.), as well as "You'll Never Know When You Get There" (also reduced to vi min.). It's prissy to get got those, although non essential. The third album is 1972's "Crossings". Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 logical follow-up to "Mwandishi", it plays every bit fresh directly every bit it did 40+ years ago. We teach the 3 master tracks (including the epic "Sleeping Giant"), but the existent surprise is the bonus runway "Crossings", the championship runway 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, only 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 fine art (reduced for CD size), important "Crossings" tin live on folded open. This reissue also contains a 28 page booklet amongst extensive as well as insightful liner notes/essay from Hancock-connoisseur Bob Gluck, pictures, as well as all the recording details of the diverse album tracks. Bottom line: this is a outset shape reissue of the Herbie Hancock Werner Bros. albums. I wishing all reissues would live on done amongst the same tending as well as attending for detail. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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