Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (1965/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 30, 2024

GRAMMY Award-winning artist and music icon Herbie Hancock unleashed a monumental work in 1965 with Maiden Voyage. The captivating concept album displayed his intuitive talents as a pianist, composer and innovator. The release was a ground-breaking demonstration of lyrical jazz blended with riveting hard bop. This star-studded affair includes music legends Freddie Hubbard, George Coleman, Ron Carter and Anthony Williams. Influenced by his experience with the Miles Davis Quintet, the album featured provocative solos, tonal textures and rich harmonies. Included on the album are the now standards, “Maiden Voyage,” “The Eye of the Hurricane,” and “Dolphin Dance.” In 1999, the album was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame.

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Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (1973) [Analogue Productions 2016] MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Sept. 10, 2024

Head Hunters is the twelfth studio album by the American pianist and composer Herbie Hancock. Recording sessions for the album took place during evening at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co. in San Francisco, California. Head Hunters is a key release in Hancock's career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz. In 2003, the album was ranked number 498 in the book version of Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2007, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry, which collects "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" sound recordings from the 20th century.

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Herbie Hancock - Future Shock (1983/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 5, 2024

Herbie Hancock - Future Shock (1983/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 44:18 minutes | 921 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Future Shock" is pianist Herbie Hancock's thirty-fifth album and a million-selling Platinum-certified disc. It was Hancock's first release from his electro-funk era and an early example of instrumental hip hop. Much of the album was initially composed by the team of avant-garde bassist and record producer Bill Laswell, and keyboardist and producer Michael Beinhorn, and played on tour by their group Material in 1982.

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Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (1973) [Japanese Edition 2020] Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 20, 2023

Head Hunters was a pivotal point in Herbie Hancock's career, bringing him into the vanguard of jazz fusion. Hancock had pushed avant-garde boundaries on his own albums and with Miles Davis, but he had never devoted himself to the groove as he did on Head Hunters. Drawing heavily from Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and James Brown, Hancock developed deeply funky, even gritty, rhythms over which he soloed on electric synthesizers, bringing the instrument to the forefront in jazz. It had all of the sensibilities of jazz, particularly in the way it wound off into long improvisations, but its rhythms were firmly planted in funk, soul, and R&B, giving it a mass appeal that made it the biggest-selling jazz album of all time (a record which was later broken)…

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Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 21, 2024

Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:53 minutes | 1,39 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

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 - Inventions & Dimensions (1964/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 27, 2024

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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Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner (1969/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 28, 2024

Herbie Hancock's "The Prisoner" was one of his first records after leaving the Miles Davis quintet in 1968. The album was done in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, a musical social statement focused around civil rights while exploring the vastness of the new jazz form known as post-bop. The recording features Garnett Brown on trombone, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone and alto flute, Johnny Coles on flugelhorn, Buster Williams on bass, and Albert Heath on drums. Although post-bop wasn't as conventional as jazz or bop, Hancock's challenging compositions invite listeners into his world of simple melodies and emotionally austere music.

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Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles (1964/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 23, 2024

"Empyrean Isles" is Herbie Hancock's fourth album. It debuted two of his most popular compositions, "One Finger Snap" and "Cantaloupe Island". Hancock pushes the boundaries of hard bop on this album, playing with elements of soul, post-modal jazz, traditional bop, and experimental jazz.

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Herbie Hancock - My Point Of View (1963/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 23, 2024

"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 - Thrust (1974) [Audio Fidelity 2016] MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Aug. 9, 2024

Thrust is a jazz-funk album by Herbie Hancock, released in September 6, 1974 on Columbia Records. It served as a follow-up to Hancock's album Head Hunters (1973), and achieved similar commercial success, as the album reached as high as number 13 on the Billboard 200 listing. The lineup for Thrust is the same as on Head Hunters, except that Mike Clark replaced Harvey Mason on drums. This is Hancock's fourteenth album overall.

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