Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock – Sound System (1984/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:40 minutes | 821 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Produced by Bill Laswell, Sound System follows where Herbie Hancock’s Future Shock left off. This experimental masterpiece bursts with even louder techno-pop brilliance. Hancock is joined by acclaimed musicians including Foday Musa Suso, Nicky Skopelitis, Wayne Shorter, Webster Lewis and more. It reached the Top Ten on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums and includes the thrilling hit “Hardrock.” The album also won the GRAMMY® for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.

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Herbie Hancock – Sextant (1973/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:10 minutes | 792 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Sextant is Herbie Hancock’s 1973 masterpiece. The recording is his final album with his Mwandishi Band. The musicians perform a brilliant set that includes the standouts, “Rain Dance,” “Hidden Shadows” and “Hornets.” The compositions are complex and rhythmically challenging. This electric, fusion-based work reached #3 on Billboard’s Top Jazz albums.

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Herbie Hancock – Secrets (1976/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:56 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Having long since established his funk credentials, Herbie Hancock continues the direction of Head Hunters and its U.S. successors here, welding himself to the groove on electric keyboards while Bennie Maupin again shines sardonic beams of light on a variety of reeds. In “Doin’ It,” the most successful track, Hancock makes a more overt bid for the dancefloor, for the tune is basically one long irresistible groove with a very commercial-sounding bridge. Again Hancock chooses to recompose one of his standards; [RoviLink=”MC”]”Cantelope [sic] Island”[/RoviLink] is almost unrecognizable converted into a sauntering, swaggering thing. A streamlining process has set in — the drumming has been simplified, some of the old high-voltage drive has been muted — yet there are still enough enjoyable, intelligently musical things happening here to hold a Hancock admirer’s attention. ~ Richard S. Ginell

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Herbie Hancock – River: The Joni Letters (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:53 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve

2007 Album of the Year
The legendary pianist and innovator explores the words and music of another musical pioneer Joni Mitchell on his first new studio recording for Verve since 1998’s GRAMMY® Award winner Gershwin’s World.

Inspired in equal parts by Mitchell’s poetic lyrics and unique melodies/harmonies, the musicians play with a restraint and elegance (on both the instrumental and vocal tracks) that achieves a perfect balance between the adventurous aesthetics of jazz improvisation and the emotional directness of the finest Adult Pop music.

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Herbie Hancock – Quartet (1982/2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Quartet is the thirty-fourth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, his first with the V.S.O.P. Quartet without Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter. It was originally issued in Japan on CBS/Sony, and later given a US release by Columbia.

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Herbie Hancock – Perfect Machine (1988/2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:53 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Perfect Machine is the thirty-seventh album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and the last with the Rockit Band. Perfect Machine was also Hancock’s final album for Columbia Records and is considered the least popular of the three Rockit band albums.

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Herbie Hancock – My Point Of View (1963/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:30 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

My Point of View is Herbie Hancock’s sophomore album, originally released in 1963 on Blue Note Records. The album followed his successful debut album Takin’ Off and helped solidify his position in the jazz world. Hancock wrote the piece “Blind Man, Blind Man” after an experience where he encountered a blind man playing his guitar on the corner of his Chicago neighborhood.

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Herbie Hancock – Mwandishi (1971/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:04 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Mwandishi is one of the first albums on which Herbie Hancock departs from the traditional jazz idioms and pursues a new original style that would generate a wider audience appeal, most notably manifested in his 1973 album Head Hunters. Mwandishi was produced by David Rubinson.

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Herbie Hancock – Mr. Hands (1980/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:57 minutes | 845 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Contemporary Jazz Masters

Recorded in 1980 at The Automatt (#1-2, 4, 6), (San Francisco); Filmways/Heider Recording (#5), (San Francisco); The Village Recorder (#3), (Los Angeles).

Mr. Hands was originally released in 1980 and is Herbie Hancock’s thirtieth album. It was one of the last albums on which Hancock played more “straight” electric jazz before moving on to focus more on R&B influences. The track “4 A.M.” features the late great bassist Jaco Pastorius.

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Herbie Hancock – Monster (Expanded Edition) (1980/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:31 minutes | 2,73 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1980 album including nine bonus tracks. Monster is the 29th album by pianist Hancock. As a follow-up to the Feets album, it avoided jazz and funk in favor of disco. Includes musical assistance from Carlos Santana, Freddie Washington, Sheila E, Bill Champlin and many others.

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Herbie Hancock – Monster (1980/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:12 minutes | 893 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Despite the PR hype about this being Herbie Hancock’s first “rock” album, Monster is really another disco album, though more varied in texture, somewhat more subtle in execution, and blessedly rid of those vocoder vocals, though not of the real ones. “Saturday Night,” despite the distinctive presence of Carlos Santana, sets the album’s dancefloor tone. The rock element is supposedly supplied by Hancock on the newly-developed Clavitar, where, try as he might to articulate like a guitarist, the sound is still that of a mutated synthesizer. Alphonze Mouzon is wasted on drums, and guitarist Wah Wah Watson has a field day on his eponymous specialty. Most annoying (and defining) track — “Go for It.” –Richard S. Ginell

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Herbie Hancock – Man-Child (1975/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:20 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Released in 1975, Man-Child is one of Herbie Hancock’s most funk-influenced albums. It was produced by David Rubinson and Herbie Hancock, and was the final album featuring the core group of the Headhunters (Paul Jackson, Bill Summers, Harvey Mason, Bennie Maupin, and Mike Clark).

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Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (1965/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

“In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable transparency and depth. It now sounds like you’ve set up your chaise lounge right in the middle of Rudy Van Gelder’s studio!” – Blue Note President, Don Was.

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Herbie Hancock – Lite Me Up (1982/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:02 minutes | 828 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Lite Me Up is Herbie Hancock’s 33rd album and was originally released in 1982. A fusion of jazz and pop, the album is full of wonderful tunes.

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Herbie Hancock – Inventions & Dimensions (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:56 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Cover art included, liner notes not included

Masterd by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.

Herbie Hancock was only 23 when he recorded the amazing Inventions & Dimensions, his third Blue Note album. Although Hancock had already recorded Takin’ Off and My Point Of View, he had quickly developed his own innovative style, and was about to become a member of the Miles Davis Quintet. Inventions and Dimensions is unlike anything he had previously created.

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