★★★★★
Box sets this colossal should come with roadmaps. At 34 discs, the set will surely intimidate the novice listener. In today's ADD world, being presented with nearly two decades of material can be paralyzing, especially if the listener's inclination is to absorb the music chronologically. The upswing, though, is that Hancock's musical trajectory during his Columbia run wasn't stuck in one stylistic lane...
- jazztimes.com
2014-03-03
★★★★★
When 32-year-old Herbie Hancock arrived atColumbia in 1972, no one expected theChicagoan keyboardist to set the world onfire. In fact, very few people seemedinterested in his music, as the sales figuresfrom his previous three-album tenure withWarner Bros revealed. During that period hewas leading his Mwandishi band, but theiresoteric sound seemed to alienate all butcommitted avant-garde aficionados, asHancock himself acknowledged in a 2002interview with this writer: "At the time noneof that...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-12-06
★★★★★
Record Label: Legacy Recordings Style: Funk/Groove
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-11-04
★★★★★
Recorded in August of 1963, pianist Herbie Hancock's Inventions and Dimensions puts pulsing, grooving rhythms at the center of the music, with Latin percussive elements and?in the best jazz tradition of the times?lots of blues. This isn't Hancock's most well-known date from his tenure at Blue Note, but it's an important recording for both its structural sophistication and the notably high quality of the piano improvisations, no small feat for so superlative an artist...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-09-17
★★★★★
As a member of Miles Davis' second quintet during the 1960s, pianist Herbie Hancock rarely performed live under his own leadership, but he did take the time to record. Hancock's 1964 effort, Empyrean Isles, remains one of the most diverse and often challenging records of the pianist's tenure with Blue Note Records. It's a rare jazz record that offers both a hugely popular hit, as well as an outré masterwork of rhythmic repetition and angular melodies...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
Track Listing: Maiden Voyage; The Eye of the Hurricane; Little One; Survival of the Fittest;Dolphin Dance. Personnel: Herbie Hancock: piano; Freddie Hubbard: trumpet; George Coleman: tenorsaxophone; Ron Carter: bass; Tony Williams: drums. Style: Funk/Groove Read more reviews of Maiden Voyage There are few worse examples of a masterpiece performance being savaged by poor recording quality than Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2011-02-19
★★★★★
Herbie Hancock has always been looking at the future. Like his former employer, Miles Davis, Hancock is always looking for ways to add the latest musical influences to his bag while still retaining a sound and style that is completely his own. Unlike Davis, Hancock is perfectly willing to review and reconstruct the music of his past, as his collaboration with Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove, Directions In Music, released last year, demonstrated...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Herbie Hancock has been one of the most respected figures in jazz over the last 40 years. He has also been one of the most reviled for his wanderings into funk, soul, and electronic jazz. A "best of" compilation recently released by Columbia/Legacy illustrates the best and the worst of Hancock's musical legacy. Hancock's musical legacy began taking form when he soloed with the Chicago Symphony at the age of 11...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Is it churlish to find extremely good intentions wrong-footed? Is it unpleasant to criticize one of the finest musicians on the planet because his work in "merely" entertaining in a patchwork kind of way? What standing does some critic have to toss tomatoes at the likes of the astonishing and--by all measures I've ever heard of--truly generous Herbie Hancock...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
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