Herbie Hancock: An Introduction
Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while still maintaining his unique, unmistakable voice. Herbie's success at expanding the possibilities of musical thought has placed him in the annals of this century's visionaries. With an illustrious career spanning five decades, he continues to amaze audiences and never ceases to expand the public's vision of what music, particularly jazz, is all about today.
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Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while still maintaining his unique, unmistakable voice. Herbie's success at expanding the possibilities of musical thought has placed him in the annals of this century's visionaries. With an illustrious career spanning five decades, he continues to amaze audiences and never ceases to expand the public's vision of what music, particularly jazz, is all about today.
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Albums
Bootlegs
- Takin' Off (Blue Note 1962)
- My Point of View (Blue Note1963)
- Inventions and Dimensions (Blue Note 1963) / alternate
- Empyrean Isles (Blue Note 1964)
- Maiden Voyage (Blue Note 1965) / FLAC
- Blow Up Soundtrack (1966) / alternate
- Speak Like a Child (Blue Note 1968)
- The Prisoner (Blue Note 1969)
- Fat Albert Rotunda (Warner Brothers 1969) / alternate
- Mwandishi (Warner Brothers 1970)
- Crossings (Warner Brothers 1971)
- Sextant (Columbia 1972) / alternate / FLAC / alternate
- Head Hunters (Columbia 1973) / alternate / alternate
- The Spook Who Sat By The Door Soundtrack (1973)
- Death Wish Soundtrack (1974) / alternate
- Dedication (CBS / Sony 1974)
- Thrust (Columbia 1974) / FLAC version / 320-mp3
- Flood (A & M 1975) / alternate : ONE TWO
- Man-Child (Columbia 1976) / alternate / 320-alternate
- Secrets (Columbia 1976) / alternate / 320-alternate
- Kawaida (GB 1976) - mainly credited to Mtume
- V.S.O.P (Columbia 1976) - (V.S.OP., Headhunters, Mwandishi)
- The Herbie Hancock Trio (Columbia 1977) / alternate / alternate (320)
- V.S.O.P. The Quintet (Columbia 1977) / alternate
- V.S.O.P. the Quintet: Tempest in the... [live] (2cd - CBS / Sony 1977)
- Tempest in the Colosseum (Columbia 1977) (see comp above)
- Third Plane (Milestone 1977) / alternate
- Sunlight (Columbia 1978) / 320-alternate
- An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick... [live] (Columbia 1978)
- Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea Live (1979, 2 cd) from dvoid
- Direct Step (Columbia Japan 1978)
- The Piano (Columbia 1978) / alternate / alternate
- Live Under The Sky (Columbia 1979) / FLAC
- In Concert [Duets] [live] (CBS 1979)
- Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (Columbia 1979) / 320-alternate / alternate
- Mr. Hands (Columbia 1980) / 320-alternate / alternate
- Monster (Columbia 1980) / alternate
- Herbie Hancock Quartet (Columbia 1981) / alternate
- Herbie Hancock Trio (CBS, 1981) at Pharoah's Dance / alternate
- Magic Windows (Columbia 1981) / alternate / alternate
- Lite Me Up (Columbia 1982)
- Future Shock (Columbia 1983) / alternate / alternate
- Sound-System (Columbia 1984) / alternate / alternate
- Village Life (Columbia 1985) / alternate / FLAC
- Round Midnight Soundtrack (1986) / Part II
- Jazz Africa [live] (Verve 1986)
- Perfect Machine (Columbia 1988) / alternate
- Quartet Live (1988-1992)
- Songs for My Father (Blue Note 1988)
- Dis Is Da Drum (Mercury 1993) / alternate
- Live In New York (1993)
- Tribute To Miles (1994) / Part II / alternate / alternate
- Jammin' with Herbie (Prime Cuts 1995)
- Canteloupe Island (Blue Note 1995)
- New Standard (Verve 1995)
- In Concert [live] (Tristar 1996)
- Living Jazz (Graphix Zone 1996)
- 1+1 (Polygram 1997)
- Gershwin's World (Polygram 1998) / alternate/ alternate
- Night Walker (Direct Source 2000)
- Future 2 Future (Transparent 2001) / alternate
- Mr Funk (2001)
- Day Dreams (2002)
- Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall (2002) / alternate
- Possibilities (2005) / alternate
- River : The Joni Letters (2007) / alternate / FLAC
- Day Dreams (2002)
- The Imagine Project (2010) / FLAC
Bootlegs
- Herbie Hancock - 45 Live Bootlegs - blog compilation at 'Never Enough Rhodes'
- Herbie Hancock live shows (info only)
Singles
- 7" : "Bring Down The Birds" (B-Boy edit / original) (2008) (sample source for Deelite's "Groove Is In the Heart" bassline)
- 12" : "Tell Everybody" (1979)
- 12" : "Knee Deep" (1979)
Miscellaneous
- "Hancock Island - The Music Of Herbie Hancock" (2009) - Buster Williams, Lenny White, George Colligan, Steve Wilson)
- Herbie Hancock demonstrates the Fender Rhodes piano (flexidisc)
- "Deck the Halls" from "Jingle Bell Jazz" (1969) - see comments. From Miles
- The Herbie Hancock Box (4 Cds, lossless)
- The Essential Herbie Hancock (2 Cds, FLAC, 840mb)
- Cantaloupe Island (1994)
- Jammin' With Herbie Hancock (19??)
- The Best of Herbie Hancock (mid to late 70s work)
Video
- 1974 - PBS Soundstage, Chicago
- 1998 - "St Louis Blues" (with Jules Holland)
- 2002 - The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock (BET Jazz, avi)
- 2002 - Future 2 Future Live - use megaupload links
- 2008 - Live at Abbey Road Studios ( 2008, 2 tracks, divx)
- Herbie Hancock And The New Standard Allstars Live At Kawaguchi Lake Jazz Festival Japan 03-08-1996 (2009)
Headhunters without Herbie!
Information
- Herbie Hancock discography by Christian Genzel
Sideman Discography
Simon says : OK, this might be too massive an idea, but I'll just start adding sideman albums when I feel like it. Please leave blog links or upload things in the comments, that might have a lot to do with how far this gets ... have barely started on the Miles, for example ... want to help?
- 1961 - Donald Byrd - "Chant"
- 1961 - Donald Byrd - "Royal Flush" / alternate
- 1961 - Donald Byrd - "Free Form"
- 1961 - Pepper Adams Quintet - "Out Of This World"
- 1962 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Domino" (FLAC)
- 1962 - Eric Dolphy - "Left Alone" / alternate
- 1962 - Grant Green - "Feelin' The Spirit" / FLAC
- 1962 - Freddie Hubbard - "Hub-Tones"
- 1962 - Grant Green - "Goin' West" / FLAC
- 1962-64 - Sonny Rollins - "Alternatives"
- 1963 - Jackie Maclean - "Vertigo" (FLAC)
- 1963 - Hank Mobley - "No Room For Squares"
- 1963 - Eric Dolphy - "Illinois Concert"
- 1963 - Kenny Dorham - "Una Mas"
- 1963 - Miles Davis - "Seven Steps To Heaven" / complete sessions lossless
- 1963 - Miles Davis - "Miles In St Louis"
- 1963 - Miles Davis - "A Rare Home Town Appearance" (Jazz Villa, June 1963)
- 1963 - Miles Davis - "Miles Davis In Europe" / alternate
- 1963 - Blue Mitchell - "Step Lightly" / alternate
- 1963 - Miles Davis Quintet - "Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival"
- 1963 - Donald Byrd - "A New Perspective" / alt
- 1963 - Kenny Burrell - "Freedom" (FLAC)
- DISCOGRAPHY COMPLETE TO END 1963
- 1964 - Donald Byrd - "Up With Donald Byrd"/ FLAC
- 1964 - Lee Morgan - "Search For The New Land"
- 1964 - Wayne Shorter - "Speak No Evil"
- 1964 - Donald Byrd / Brass with Voices - "I'm tryin' to get home"
- 1964 - Stanley Turrentine - "In Memory Of"
- 1964 - Stanley Turrentine Septet/Sextet - "Stanley Turrentine"
- 1964 - Sonny Rollins - "All The things You Are"
- 1964 - Jackie McLean - "It's Time"
- 1965 - Miles Davis - E.S.P.
- 1965 - Dave Pike - "Jazz For the Jet Set" / FLAC
- 1965 - Lee Morgan - "Cornbread"
- 1965 - Bobby Hutcherson - "Components"
- 1966 - Stan Getz - "Voices"
- 1966 - Miles Smiles / alternate
- 1965 - Wayne Shorter - "Et Cetera"
- 1965 - Stanley Turrentine - "Joyride"
- 1965 - Hank Mobley - "The Turnaround"
- 1965 - Wayne Shorter - "The All Seeing Eye"
- 1965 - Sam Rivers - "Contours"
- 1965 - Prince Lasha - "Inside Story"
- 1965 - Woody Shaw - "Cassandranite" (released 1983)
- 1966 - Wayne Shorter - "Adam's Apple" / alternate
- 1966 - Bobby Hutcherson - "Happenings" / alternate / FLAC
- 1966 - Ed Thigpen - "Out of the Storm" / FLAC
- 1967 - Wayne Shorter - "Schizophrenia"
- 1967 - Miles Davis- "Sorcerer"
- 1967 - Bobby Hutcherson - "Oblique" / AIFF version
- 1967 - Lee Morgan - "The Procrastinator" / FLAC
- 1967 - Harold Vick - "Watch What Happens"
- 1967 - Miles Davis - "No Blues"
- 1967 - Miles Davis - "Nefertiti" / alternate
- 1967 - Donald Byrd - "Blackjack"
- 1967 - Cal Tjader - "Hip Vibrations"
- 1967 - Wes Montgomery - "A Day In The Life" / FLAC
- 1967 - Lee Morgan - "Standards"
- 1969 -Kenny Burrell - "Blues, The Common Ground" / FLAC
- 1968 - Paul Desmond - "Summertime"
- 1968 - Miles Davis - "Filles de Kilimanjaro"
- 1968 - Roy Ayers - "Stoned Soul Picnic" / FLAC
- 1968 - Soul Flutes - "Trust In Me" / alternate
- 1968 - Wes Montgomery - "Down Here On the Ground" / FLAC
- 1968 - K & J.J. (Johnson) - "Israel"
- 1968 - K & J.J. (Johnson) - "Betwixt & Between"
- 1968 - Artie Butler - "Have You Met Miss Jones?"
- 1968 - George Benson - "Shape Of Things To Come"
- 1969 - George Benson - "The Other Side of Abbey Road"
- 1969 - Paul Desmond - "Bridge over Troubled Water"
- 1969 - Roy Ayers - "Daddy Bug"
- 1969 - Mtume - "Kawaida"
- 1969 - Luis Gasca - "Little Giant"
- 1969 - Ron Carter - "Uptown Conversation" (FLAC)
- 1969 - Miles Davis - "In a Silent Way" / alternate
- 1969 - Quincy Jones - "I Heard That"
- 1969 - Milton Nascimento - "Courage"
- 1969 - Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew" / FLAC
- 1969 - Miles Davis - "Big Fun"
- 1969 - Joe Henderson - "Power To The People"
- 1969 - Charlie Byrd - "The Great Byrd"
- 1970 - Miles Davis - "A Tribute to Jack Johnson" / complete lossless
- 1970 - Miles Davis - "Live Evil" / alternate
- 1970 - Joe Zawinul - "Zawinul"
- 1970 - Freddie Hubbard - "Red Clay"
- 1970 - Freddie Hubbard" - "Straight Life"
- 1970 - Quincy Jones - "Gula Matari"
- 1970 - Attila Zoller - "Gypsy Cry"
- 1970 - John Murtaugh - "Blues Current"
- 1971 - George Benson - "White Rabbit"
- 1971 - Terry Plumeri - "He Who Lives In Many Places"
- 1972 - Joe Farrell - "Moon Germs"
- 1972 - Miles Davis - "On The Corner" / complete sessions lossless
- 1972 - Milt Jackson "Sunflower"
- 1972 - Norman Connors - "Dance Of Magic"
- 1972 - Chris Hinze Combination Brass with Herbie Hancock - Who can See The Shadow Of The Sun
- 1973 - Norman Connors - "Dark Of Light"
- 1973 - Norman Connors - "Love From The Sun"
- 1973 - Eddie Henderson - "Realization"
- 1973 - Joe Farrell - "Penny Arcade"
- 1973 - Joe Farrell - "Upon This Rock"
- 1974 - Bennie Maupin - "The Jewel In The Lotus"
- 1974 - Quincy Jones - "Body Heat"
- 1974 - Wayne Shorter - "Native Dancer" / alternate
- 1974 - Pointer Sisters - "That's a Plenty"
- 1975 - Pointer Sisters - "Steppin"
- 1975 - Les McCann - "Hustle to Survive"
- 1975 - Bobby Womack - "I Can Understand It"
- 1975 - Bobby Womack - "Safety Zone"
- 1975 - Freddie Hubbard / Stanley Turrentine in Concert Vol 1
- 1975 - Freddie Hubbard / Stanley Turrentine in Concert Vol 2
- 1975 - Airto Moreira - "Identity"
- 1975 - Harvey Mason - "Marching In The Street"
- 1975 - Norman Connors - "Saturday Night Special"
- 1976 - Jon Lucien - "Premonition"
- 1976 - Jaco Pastorius - "Jaco Pastorius"
- 1976 - Miroslav Vitous - "Magical Shepherd"
- 1976 - Stevie Wonder - "Songs In The Key Of Life"
- 1976 - Roy Ayers - "Daddy Bug and Friends"
- 1977 - Wah Wah Watson - "Elementary"
- 1977 - Takashi Mizuhashi - "One Tuesday in New York"
- 1977 - Teruo Nakamura - "Manhattan Special"
- 1977 - Michael Henderson - "Goin' Places"
- 1977 - Jimmy Smith - "Sit On it"
- 1978 - Paul Jackson - "Black Octopus" / alternate
- 1978 - Eddie Henderson - "Mahal" / alternate
- 1978 - Michael Paulo - " 'Tats' in the Rainbow"
- 1978 - Joe Farrell - "Night Dancing"
- 1978 - Sharon Redd, Ula Hedwig & Charlotte Crossley - "Formerly of the Harlettes"
- 1978 - Kimiko Kasai - "Round and Round"
- 1979 - Michel Colombier - "Michel Colombier"
- 1979 - Eddie Henderson - "Runnin' to Your Love"
- 1979 - Joni Mitchell - "Mingus" / alternate
- 1979 - Webster Lewis - "8 for the 80s"
- 1979 - Kimiko Kasai - "Butterfly"
- 1980 - Alphonse Mouzon - "By All Means"
- 1981 - Terumasa Hino - "Double Rainbow"
- 1981 - Jaco Pastorius - Word of Mouth
- 1981 - L. Subramaniam "Blossom"
- 1982 - Wynton Marsalis - "Wynton Marsalis"
- 1982 - Conrad Silvert Presents Jazz at the Opera House
- 1985 - "One Night with Blue Note Preserved" Vol 1
- 1984 - Foday Musa Suso - "Watto Sita"
- 1985 - Sly & Robbie - "Language Barrier"
- 1985 - Sadao Watanabe - "Maisha"
- 1986 - Randy Bernsen - "Mo' Wasabi"
- 1986 - Branford Marsalis - "Royal Garden Blues"
- 1986 - Last Exit - The Noise of Trouble (Live in Japan)
- 1987 - Yana Purim - "Harvest Time"
- 1987 - Branford Marsalis - "Renaissance"
- 1988 - Grover Washington Jr. - "Then and Now"
- 1990 - Jack DeJohnette - "Parallel Realities" (FLAC)
- 1990 - Pat Metheny - "Flower Hour 1 & II (Live)"
- 1993 Airto Moreira & The Gods of Jazz - "Killer Bees"
- 1995 - Katia Labéque - "Little Girl Blue"
- 1998 - Headhunters - "Return of the Headhunters" / alternate
- 2001 - Michael Brecker - Nearness Of You - The Ballad Book
- 2005 - Terence Blanchard - "Flow"
Thanks Fresh Sly for your hard work on this discography.
