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Media Type: CD
Artist: HANCOCK,HERBIE
Title: HEADHUNTERS
Street Release Date: 03/25/1997
Domestic
Genre: JAZZ

This 2-CD, 21-track compilation shows how keyboardist/composer/bandleader Herbie Hancock successfully crossed the boundaries of jazz and pop for four decades. Compiled from five record labels, from 1962 to 2000, tracks like "Circle" showcase his legendary stint in Miles Davis' mid-'60s acoustic combos, and "Maiden Voyage," and "Cantaloupe Island" are but two of his historic jazz compositions from his Blue Note period. But hits like his smash soul-fusion, 70s Headhunters cut, "Chameleon," the evocative "Come Running to Me," which featured the vocoder voice synthesizer, and the hip-hop anthem "Rockit," which broke through the MTV video barrier, garnered younger generations of fans. Not to be forgotten are his excellent movie themes, including his eerie 1986 Oscar-winning soundtrack "Round Midnight," his poppin' collaboration with bassist Jaco Pastorius on "4 A.M.," and his rhythmic rendezvous with Stevie Wonder on W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues." Herbie Hancock is essential, in any time or style. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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 Herbie Hancock’s latest recording Possibilities has scanned nearly 400,000 units. Joni Mitchell’s brand new album also releases on 9/25 early confirmed media includes: NPR Morning Edition feature (airdate TBD); NY Times Arts & Leisure Fall Preview; review in The New Yorker.

Herbie Hancock's Imagine Project is an unprecedented international recording and film project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and a dozen superstars from every region of the planet. It utilizes the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility. The album combines Herbie s genre defying musical vision with the local musical identities of cultures from around the world.

Herbie's last two efforts, 2008's Grammy Album of the Year River: The Joni Letters sold over 750,000 units worldwide and 2005's Possibilities sold over one million units INTERNATIONALLY.

HANCOCK HERBIE MAIDEN VOYAGE (RUDY VAN GELDER REMASTER)

Remastered 1997 reissue of his 1974 Columbia album in adigipak and with the original artwork. Four tracks,including 'Butterfly' and 'Actual Proof'.

20bit digitally remastered.

1992 digitally remastered edition of one of the best regarded of all the keyboard wizard's solo albums.

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Genre: Jazz Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 18-SEP-2007

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