The Essential Herbie Hancock

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The Essential Herbie Hancock
Greatest hits album by
Released2006
Recorded1962 - 1998
GenreJazz, jazz fusion, R&B, acid jazz
LabelColumbia
Herbie Hancock chronology
Possibilities
(2005)
The Essential Herbie Hancock
(2006)
River: The Joni Letters
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Tom HullB+[2]

The Essential Herbie Hancock is the forty-sixth album by American jazz musician and pianist Herbie Hancock. It is part of Sony BMG's The Essential series. Unlike the box set The Herbie Hancock Box, this two-disc set is the first compilation of Hancock's music that included music from all the various recording labels for which Hancock recorded.

Track listing[edit]

Disc one[edit]

No.TitleLength
1."Watermelon Man" (from Takin' Off, 1962)7:12
2."'Round Midnight" (from the Sonny Rollins album Now's the Time, 1964)4:03
3."Cantaloupe Island" (from Empyrean Isles, 1964)5:30
4."Maiden Voyage" (from Maiden Voyage, 1965)7:55
5."Circle" (from the Miles Davis Quintet album Miles Smiles, 1967)5:48
6."The Sorcerer" (from Speak Like a Child, 1968)5:38
7."Tell Me a Bedtime Story" (from Fat Albert Rotunda, 1970)5:01
8."Hidden Shadows" (from Sextant, 1973)10:11
9."Chameleon" (from Head Hunters, 1973)15:41
10."Joanna's Theme" (from Death Wish, 1974)4:43

Disc two[edit]

No.TitleLength
1."Butterfly" (from Thrust, 1974)11:17
2."People Music" (from Secrets, 1976)7:08
3."Milestones" (from Herbie Hancock Trio, 1977)6:37
4."4 AM" (from Mr. Hands, 1980)5:22
5."Come Running To Me" (from Sunlight, 1978)8:24
6."Finger Painting" (from the V.S.O.P. album Five Stars, 1979)6:42
7."Stars In Your Eyes" (from Monster, 1980)7:05
8."Rockit" (from Future Shock, 1983)5:24
9."St. Louis Blues" (from Gershwin's World, 1998)5:50
10."Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love)" (from The New Standard, 1996)4:04

References[edit]

  1. ^ The Essential Herbie Hancock at AllMusic
  2. ^ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Herbie Hancock". Tom Hull. Retrieved 12 August 2020.