Best of Herbie Hancock - Leader

I've thrown in a small range of albums, some that I haven't heard (like 'Mr Hands' or 'Gershwin's World' - but am keen to) and a couple Live ones too. I want to  do a sideman poll too, just gotta do some more thinking.

I've already said it, for me, Crossings and Maiden Voyage are his peak compositionally speaking. Then, in the funk world, Thrust and Headhunters are top-notch, Man-Child not too far.

"River..." is one of three most current Hancock's albums -all collections of duos/collaborations with different but mostly pop musicians. I think this formula became popular after extremely successful Santana's "Supernatural" album, Santana tried to repeat it few more times (total disaster), Hancock released three similar works with same result. To be honest of all three "River..." possibly is the best (or at least listenable,mostly because of Joni Mitchell's material)

I own the album which Herbie Hancock announced in the 70s to some extent. Probably I thought that methods of the expression about the musicality were different in the acoustic band and electric band.

I felt that "Flood" was a peak as so-called Head Hunters and the performance that I performed for me. Or I like those albums personally because I felt it when trio derived from V.S.O.P performs a stable performance generally. And probably I think "Directstep" and "Dedicaton" to be the album which a fan really enjoys. As a result, I went to others.

In  the ansence of Sextant, I went for Crossings ... and then I would say Man--Child, which is my fave from the Head Hunters era.

Sean Trane wrote: In  the ansence of Sextant, I went for Crossings ... and then I would say Man--Child, which is my fave from the Head Hunters era.

I thought Crossings might get some love, and I nearly added Sextant, but thought that Crossings had an edge. Voted for Empyrean Isles myself, no surprise there though, my first review for the site!

Kazuhiro wrote: I own the album which Herbie Hancock announced in the 70s to some extent. Probably I thought that methods of the expression about the musicality were different in the acoustic band and electric band. I felt that "Flood" was a peak as so-called Head Hunters and the performance that I performed for me. Or I like those albums personally because I felt it when trio derived from V.S.O.P performs a stable performance generally. And probably I think "Directstep" and "Dedicaton" to be the album which a fan really enjoys. As a result, I went to others.

I nearly put 'Flood' in, Kazu - what's 'Dedication' like in your opinion, I've been meaning to import that one for a while

Yeah! Doing 'Whole Lotta Love' with Chris from Soundgarden - it doesn't sound terrible at least!

snobb wrote: dreadpirateroberts wrote: snobb wrote: "River..." is one of three most current Hancock's albums -all collections of duos/collaborations with different but mostly pop musicians. I think this formula became popular after extremely successful Santana's "Supernatural" album, Santana tried to repeat it few more times (total disaster), Hancock released three similar works with same result. To be honest of all three "River..." possibly is the best (or at least listenable,mostly because of Joni Mitchell's material) Yeah, I did suspect that compared to say, 'possibilities' the joni album might well have been better. And Carlos' follow-ups to 'Supernatural' were indeed not very satisfying, huh? Even more -Santana finished the series with album of "classic guitar rock hits" covers where he switched from flirts with hip-hop/pop to  old-fashioned guitar solos (mostly out of place).The only difference is at least it is rock,not pop album

Any of those style of guest or tribute albums, no matter what the genre of music (Country are real bad offenders) are usually crap. I have bought a few ( okay several) over the years and even sitting her now just going through my head what I can remember I have, there is not one album that I can think of that would be above 3 stars if I rated any of them.

Personally I always liked The Prisoner, It's a little different for Herbie Joe Henderson is great on that one, I like any of the Mwandishi Band albums, Sextant  sounds incredible on vinyl.