Herbie Hancock - Live at NDR Studios (1971)

(excerpt : first two minutes)

Herbie Hancock Bootleg #45 for the collection :

Well why not a 2nd post in a day for this blog's anniversary ?
Two hours and four minutes of Herbie Hancock and his Mwandishi band, recorded live on August 4th, 1971 at NDR Studios in Hamburg, Germany as a continuous take.

1970-71 saw a seismic change in Hancock's music - after finishing the "Fat Albert Rotunda" album at the end of 1969; his major recordings during 1970 were the Miles Davis albums "A Tribute to Jack Johnson" and "Live Evil", then his studio album "Mwandishi" was recorded on December 31st, 1970. Quite a way to spend New Year's Eve! This session comes eight months later.

In searching for information about this session, I can only see that it's changed hands between traders as a tape and then a 2 CD set for many years; and that the 50 min section of "Ostinato" has sometimes been sold in some places. My version is a Soulseek find @ 192kbps; and I thought it would be good to release this into the blogosphere.

Hope you enjoy it!
... and more Hancock bootlegs here.

TRACKLIST1. Toys (46:44)
2. Speak like a child (27:13)
3. Ostinato (50:36)

MUSICIANS

Herbie Hancock - fender rhodes, acoustic piano
Bennie Maupin - tenor sax, flute, bass clarinet
Billy Hart - drums
Buster Williams - bass
Julian Priester - trombone
Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn

DETAILS

NDR Studios, Hamburg, Germany, August 4th 1971
Thanks Max for the details.

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Bennie Maupin - Live In Berlin (2008)

'Prophet's Motif' excerpt

'Atma' excerpt

A great live date by ex-Headhunter Bennie Maupin recorded November 2008 at the Berlin JazzFest, donated by Upkerry14.

A very different, extended version of the "Walter Bishop Jr." track I posted a while back; some guest vocals from Hanka Chowaniec-Rybka (check the "Atma" preview above) and a good recording.

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Bennie Maupin Quartet
Quasimodo, JazzFest Berlin, 7th November 2008

MUSICIANS

Bennie Maupin - reeds
Michal Tokaj - piano
Michal Baranski - bass
Lukasz Zyta- drums, percussion
guest: Hanka Chowaniec-Rybka, vocals (8, 9)

TRACKLIST

01. 'Walter Bishop jr.' 23:34
02. band intros 02:25
03. 'Message To Prez' 10:55
04. 'Tears' 08:00
05. 'Prophet's Motif' 05:42 (end missing)
06. 'Jewels In The Lotus' 16:59
07. 'Escondido' 14:06
08. 'Spirits Of The Tadras' 07:41
09. 'Atma' 07:18

DETAILS

Total Time : 1:36:07

source: DVB-S@256, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2 (lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

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Herbie Hancock / Headhunters - "Live in Bremen" (1974)

'Chameleon' excerpt


'Butterfly' excerpt


'Spank-A-Lee' excerpt

To take us up to 44 live bootlegs in the Herbie Hancock collection, here's a November 1974 show from Bremen in Germany, originally broadcast on Radio Sendesaal. Hancock's keyboards (mostly rhodes, some synth n' clav) are great on this one, and the Headhunters really stretch out, with Summers and Clark punching through the mix. Maupin's sax solo is on fire in "Spank-A-Lee"

Only 192kbps, but a reasonably clear and well-mixed original broadcast recording. Hope you enjoy it!

TRACKLIST 

01. 'Butterfly' (15:30)
02. 'Spank-A-Lee' (6:48)
03. 'Chameleon' (16:46)

MUSICIANS 

Herbie Hancock - keyboards
Bennie Maupin - reeds
Paul Jackson - bass
Mike Clark - drums
Bill Summers - percussion

DETAILS / INFO

Soulseek find, seemingly not on any blogs, forums or webpages. I've converted the single wma file to 192kbps mp3; and separated the tracks with a lossless editor.

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Bennie Maupin - "Walter Bishop Jr." (2006)

'Walter Bishop Jr.'
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As a follow-up to yesterday's "Cubicle" post, here's a beautiful track called "Walter Bishop Jr", by Bennie Maupin, from his 2006 album "Penumbra". I've put the whole track in the preview this time, so just have a listen and download it if you like it.

Saxaphone - Bennie Maupin
Percussion - Munyungo Jackson, Michael Stephans
Bass - Darek Oles

Herbie Hancock live at the Boarding House (1974, bootleg)

'Maiden Voyage' excerpt


'Actual Proof' excerpt

What better way to start Sunday than with thirty minutes of "new" Herbie Hancock from 1974 ?

Miles from Birds With Broken Wings was recently digging through some old boxes from the 1970s, a time when he worked as an announcer at a jazz radio station, and came across a tape of this broadcast performance, which he has kindly donated to this blog.

I've checked through the main Hancock bootleg database at db.etree and there doesn't seem to be any matching entry, so I think we've got a first here, which we'll of course also add into the ever-growing Herbie Hancock bootlegs post ...

Two long tracks here. The first is an extraordinary solo piano improvisation, which over the course of fifteen minutes dips in and out of "Maiden Voyage" several times.

In the second edit here, the band joins "Maiden Voyage" before soon segueing into an acoustic version of "Actual Proof", which Hancock recorded the same year on the album "Thrust".

Bennie Maupin features strongly on flute, and I'm unaware if there are any other recordings of this track featuring Hancock on acoustic piano. Anyway, it's great stuff.

While there's no certain information on the other players, the Headhunters' lineup stayed pretty solid throughout 1974, so I think we can reasonably assume the the lineup is as below ... though there's touches of Pastorius in the basslines, but is this too early? hmmm ...

Quality note : My recording and production background has led me to be a bit of a quality fascist when it comes to bootlegs, and even though this has been through a cassette stage, it's all properly miked and mixed to the point where you're not missing any of the nuances of this great group of musicians. There's a bit of tape flutter in the last five minutes of "Actual Proof", but it's not too bad.

Enjoy this one! A big thanks to Miles, and you can check out more of his stuff at Birds With Broken Wings.

TRACKLIST

01. Improvisation / Maiden Voyage (14:57)
02. Maiden Voyage / Actual Proof (15:43)

MUSICIANS (PROBABLE)

Herbie Hancock - piano
Bennie Maupin - flute
Paul Jackson - electric bass
Mike Clark - drums

PRODUCTION DETAILS

Recorded at The Boarding House, San Francisco, 1974

MORE HERBIE

Herbie Hancock discography by Christian Genzel
Herbie Hancock discography with downloads @ BlaxJive
Herbie Hancock bootlegs - the big post

POST CREDITS

Digitisation by Miles.
Post links to Birds With Broken Wings, Call It Anything and Blaxploitation Jive

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Bennie Maupin - "Moonscapes" (1978)

Posted by Bacoso to "Orgy In Rhythm", February 2008

Simon says :
In the four years since the spacey ambience of his 1974 debut album "The Jewel In the Lotus", woodwinds man Bennie Maupin had been heavily involved in the expanding universe of electric jazz, straight-ahead funk and various intersections between the two. He'd been on the Herbie Hancock albums "Thrust", "Man Child", "Secrets", "Sunlight", "Flood" and other live Hancock recordings, and would continue with Hancock until the end of the 70s.

He'd also played on the Headhunters own funky albums, "Survival Of The Fittest" and "Straight From the Gate", on both of which all tracks were group compositions.Between '74 and '78 Maupin had also guested on a wide range of albums, primarily by jazz artists exploring the new hybrids of electric jazz-funk, including Eddie Henderson's "Sunburst" and "Mahal"; Jack DeJohnette's "Sorcery"; Michael Howell's "In the Meantime"; Lenny White's "Big City"; Wah Wah Watson's "Elementary"; Paul Jackson's "Black Octopus"; Sonny Rollins' "Nucleus"; Harvey Mason's "Marching In the Street"; and Alphonso Johnson's "Moonshadows".

A busy man, no wonder he's lounging back on that chair on the back cover.

The previous year, 1977, he'd signed to Mercury Records and released his second album "Slow Traffic to the Right", a more commercial affair than his previous album, on which he'd updated and funked up a few of his compositions from the Mwandishi Hancock "Crossings" album, featuring some nice orchestrations from pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs, solid rhodes work from Patrice Rushen and surprisingly smooth production from his Mwandishi cohort, synthesist Pat Gleeson.

"Moonscapes" is his third album, released in 1978. Gleeson and Gumbs are back again, though Maupin himself seems to be more in charge of the synth textures than before. Bobby Lyle - who was in between his first two albums "The Genie" and "New Warrior" - ably takes over the rhodes / piano chair from Patrice Rushen, and contributes good funky clavinet work. Session guitarist Mike "Maniac" Sembello gives this album a slick - sometimes a little too slick - fusion edge.

Maupin himself is concentrating more on (relatively, for him) harder-blown soprano and tenor sax work here, and there's not much bass clarinet or flute. Producer Gleeson balances things well, though there's a little too much phasing on the saxaphone that flattens Maupin's dynamics sometimes. I like the low-key "Farewell To Rahsaan" best of all, it's got some nice interplay between the belltones of Bobby Lyle's rhodes and Beverley Bellow's harp, with some more fluid dynamics from Maupin, and controlled delay and multitracking from Gleeson. "Anua" is another good rack, Sembello's choppy on-beat riffing holding the backbone for some inspired work from Maupin and Lyle.

After this, it was to be twenty years until Maupin's next album, 1998's "Driving While Black", containing some good keyboards/rhodes, and great playing from Maupin, but also some flaccid drum machine programming from Pat Gleeson that has not dated well at all.

His two recent, more straight-ahead albums for the Cryptogramaphon label reveal that Bennie's still got the chops - 2006's "Penumbra" - hear some full tracks here - and "Early Reflections" from this year.

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SIDEBAR : BETYE SAAR (front cover collage, "Moonscapes")

In the late 1960s Saar began collecting images of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, Little Black Sambo, and other stereotyped African American figures from folk culture and advertising. She incorporated them into collages and assemblages, transforming them into provocative statements of political and social protest. In the 1970s Saar shifted focus again, exploring ritual and tribal objects from Africa as well as items from African American folk traditions. In new boxed assemblages, she combined shamanistic tribal fetishes with images and objects evoking the magical and the mystical.
Click the link above for more info on Betye Saar and further links.

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TRACKLIST 

01. "Nightwatch" (6:09)
02. "Farewell To Rahsaan (Dedicated To Rahsaan Roland Kirk 1936 - 1977)" - (3:34)
03. "Anua" (6:48)
04. "A Promise Kept" (5:46)
05. "Just Give It Some Time" (4:45)
06. "Sansho Shima" (4:23)
07. "Crystals" (1:18)

All tracks written by Maupin except (5) Gumbs All tracks arranged by Maupin except (5) Gumbs, (3, 6) Maupin / Gumbs

MUSICIANS

Bennie Maupin - soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, bass marimba, glockenspiel, synthesizer (EU synthesizer, Computone synthesizer, winddriver)
Bobby Lyle - piano, electric piano, clavinet
Onaje Allen Gumbs - electric piano (5.6)
Mike Sembello - acoustic and electric guitar
Abraham La Boriel - bass
Mingo Lewis - congas, miscellaneous percussion
Harvey Mason - drums
Derrick Youman - vocals (4)
Beverly Bellows - harp (2)

PRODUCTION

Producer - Pat Gleeson
Programmed By - Patrick Gleeson
Recording Engineer - Steve Montoani
Additional Engineer - Seth Dworken
Mastered By - Johnny Golden
A & R - Gerry Hoff
Photography - Jonathan Exely
Design - Desmond Strobel
Front Cover Collage - Betye Saar

Mercury Records SRM-1-3717
Track 5 published by Onaje Music Publishing Co. (ASCAP)
All other selections published by Benpin Music (BMI).

Recorded at Conway Recorders Inc, Los Angeles.
Mixed at Different Fur, San Francisco.
Mastered at Kendun Recorders, Burbank.
Manufactured by Phonogram, Inc., A Polygram Company. Distributed by Phonodisc, Inc.
Alt ref#s in run-out grooves:
A: T1 SRM-1-3717-CT-A2
B: T1 SRM-1-3717-CT-B2

 POST CREDITS

320 vinyl rip by Bacoso.

Album links in this post go to :
Oufar Khan, My Jazz World, Ile Oxumaré, Sanpasquale Ent, Abracadabra, Milk Crate Breaks, My Favourite Sound, Bug In The City, Melloman, Mwandishi, Jazz-Rock-Fusion-Guitar, Blog-O-Blog, and BeeQ.

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Bennie Maupin - "The Jewel In The Lotus" (1974)

Here's a vinyl rip of Bennie Maupin's "The Jewel In The Lotus" to complete the cycle of post-Mwandishi albums by members of Herbie Hancock's band from the early 70s band, who together had made "Mwandishi", "Crossings" and "Sextant".

(See also Buster William's "Pinnacle"; Julian Priester's "Love, Love", the Eddie Henderson albums "Realization" and "Inside Out", and the Boston Jazz Workshop live album. )

Recorded in March 1974, this album comes about six months after Priester's album, and in a few tracks resembles a minimalist version of some the textures explored there. Don't be looking out for the funk here - this is a more spiritual, atmospheric affair, with cascades of chord clusters from various instruments, and sparse percussion - "beds" of heavily structured sound over which the players minimally improvise. It's not "free jazz" - even on the raw soundscape of "Excursion", there's still an impeccable structure to control the dynamic flow. It's the perfect setting for Bennie Maupin to get into the subtle ranges of his high register reeds.

Whereas other "Bitches Brew" veterans tended to either emulate Miles Davis or run screaming into a more controlled jazz-funk, Maupin's lesson, compositionally, seems to have been to extract some order from the chaos, perhaps somewhat like Teo Macero ...

Maupin was the only player from Hancock's Mwandishi band to continue on to the Headhunters, and here he utilises players from both bands. A year after the phenomenally successful, electrified "Head Hunters" album, Herbie Hancock's tweaking the inbuilt delays on his fender rhodes to add to Maupin's soundscapes on the title track. Some of the textures in Maupin's songs are so subtle that the white machine noise coming out from the rhodes' phaser itself becomes a texture. Hancock also seems to be enjoying the opportunity to explore percussive dynamics once again on his acoustic piano - listen to his playing around Maupin's multitracked winds in "Past Is Past".

Bill Summers - the man who blew into beer bottles at the start of "Watermelon Man" on "Head Hunters" - is very at home as he mixes bells, cymbals and even garbage cans with Maupin's glockenspiel and Frederick Watts' marimba. Drummer Billy Hart and bassist Buster Williams return from the Mwandishi band, and guest Charles Sullivan supplies gentle muted trumpet to "Mappo" and some crazy squeals to the general chaos of "Excursion".

This is an album that gets better with repeated listens - I listened through a few times today when ripping and converting, not having heard it for several years, and once again I'm really taken with the colours that this group of people create together.

TRACKLIST
01. "Ensenada" (8:05)
02. "Mappo" (8:25)
03. "Excursion" (4:47)
04. "Past + Present = Future" (1:45)
05. "The Jewel In The Lotus" (9:57)
06. "Winds Of Change" (1:25)
07. "Song For Tracie Dixon Summers" (5:14)
08. "Past Is Past" (3:52)

All tracks written by Bennie Maupin

PERSONNEL
Reeds, Voice, Glockenspiel - Bennie Maupin
Piano, Electric Piano - Herbie Hancock
Trumpet - Charles Sullivan (tracks: 2,3)
Bass - Buster Williams
Drums (right channel) - Billy Hart
Drums, Marimba (left channel) - Frederick Waits
Percussion - Bill Summers

PRODUCTION DETAILS
ECM Records 1043
Recorded March 1974 at The Record Plant, New York City.
Engineer - Dennis Ferrante
Engineer [Mix] - Jan Erik Kongshaug
Producer - Manfred Eicher

POST CREDITS
Vinyl rip by Simon666
Apart from the three album links within this blog, this post's album links go to :
Oufar Khan, Abrabcadabra, Jazz and Beyond, manepipoca's music house, bug in the city, Real Hip Hop.
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Herbie Hancock - 53 live bootlegs

HERBIE HANCOCK AND THE HEADHUNTERS
Live at @ Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY , October 1st, 1973



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TRACKS
01. Actual Proof (9.37)

02. Butterfly (12.47)

03. Sly (17.48)

04. Chameleon (15.41)

PERSONNEL
Herbie Hancock: keyboards
Bennie Maupin: reeds
Paul Jackson: bass
Mike Clark: drums

- We're in funky Headhunters territory here ....

HERBIE HANCOCK AND MWANDISHI
Live at Boston, Ma. Jazz Workshop, USA, March 22, 1973

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TRACKS
01. Hornets (43:00)
02. You'll know when you get there (20:11)

PERSONNEL
Herbie Hancock: Keyboards,Pianos
Buster Williams: Bass
Billy Hart: Drums
Benny Maupin: Reeds
Eddie Henderson: Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Julian Priester: Trombone
Dr. Pat Gleeson: Synths
"Scorch": Congas

TAPER'S NOTES
"It was college vacation... i think the music is fantastic.
this will blow the minds of people expecting Herbie in his more pop or jazz modes. - 'Scorch' was a local guy who would sometimes sit in with visiting jazz groups. I dont know his real name or what happened to him. Dont expect the Headhunters on this, folks. This is all Sextant material. Its pretty out there, in the best possible way. Enjoy!

"Tape and transfer details :
WBCN FM>Sony R2R 7"reel @ 7.5ips No Dolby
MR>Akai 6X4000-D>Numark EQ>HHB CDR830 "

HERBIE HANCOCK
Live in Nice, France - July 21st, 1971 



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TRACKS
01. You'll know when you get there / Toys (47:07)

02. Impro/Ostinato (19:13)


PERSONNEL
Herbie Hancock: Rhodes, Synth

Eddie Henderson: Trumpet

Julian Priester: Trombone

Bennie Maupin: Sax, Flute

Buster Williams: Bass

Billy Hart: Drums

- Once again, your more experimental, Mwandishi Herbie.

"Live at NDR Studios" (1971) also @ Never Enough Rhodes

TRACKLIST

1. Toys (46:44)
2. Speak like a child (27:13)
3. Ostinato (50:36)


MUSICIANS
Herbie Hancock - fender rhodes, acoustic piano
Bennie Maupin - tenor sax, flute, bass clarinet
Billy Hart - drums
Buster Williams - bass
Julian Priester - trombone
Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn

DETAILS
NDR Studios , Germany, Aug 4th, 1971
Single file, 2 hrs 4 mins, 192kbps

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Herbie Hancock, Piano &
 Electric Piano;

Eddie Henderson, Trumpet, Flugelhorn;
Julian Priester, Trombone;
Bennie Maupin, Tenor Sax, Flute, Bass Clarinet;
Buster Williams, Bass;
Billy Hart, Drums.

1. You Will Know When You Get There 12:30
2. Toys / Wiggle Waggle 24:07
3. Wiggle Waggle 3:51
4. Toys 8:59
5. Maiden Voyage 11:49
FM Broadcast

TIVOLI, COPENHAGEN, 1971

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Herbie Hancock-piano

Eddie Henderson-trumpet
Julian Priester: trombone
Bennie Maupin: sax,flute, bass clarinet
Buster Williams-bass
Billy Hart-drums

CD1
Maiden Voyage 12:31
Sleeping Giant 28:51
Sleeping Giant (continued) 4:12

CD2
Water Torture 19:47
Toys 25:47

KANTONSCHULE, BADEN, SWITZERLAND. MARCH 3, 1972

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Herbie Hancock (p, ky)

Julian Priester (tb)
Eddie Henderson (tp)
Bennie Maupin (ts, bcl, fl)
Buster Williams (b)
Billy Hart (d)

FM intro
You'll Know When You Get There
Toys
Water Torture
Firewater
Maiden Voyage
FM recording

Herbie Hancock "Mwandishi"
Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit, Michigan, USA
probably Oct. 8, 1972

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1 - 2 - 3 - 4 

Musicians
Herbie Hancock "Mwandishi" - Fender Rhodes, Percussion
Bennie Maupin "Mwile" - Reeds, Percussion
Eddie Henderson "Mganga" - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Percussion
Julian Priester "Pepo" - Trombones, Percussion
Buster Williams "Mchezaji" - Double Bass, Electric Bass, Percussion
Billy Hart "Jabali" - Drums, Percussion
Patrick Gleeson - ARP 2600 Synthesizer, Percussion

Tracklist
01 Sleeping Giant Part 1 (14:18)
02 Sleeping Giant Part 2 (7:26)
03 Sleeping Giant Part 3 (7:14)
04 Sleeping Giant Part 4 (13:00)
05 Sleeping Giant Part 5 (14:14)
Time : 56min 15sec
Lossless!

Strata Concert Gallery Detroit, February 20, 1973 

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1 -2 

Herbie Hancock - Fender Rhodes, Percussion

Bennie Maupin - Reeds, Percussion
Eddie Henderson - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Percussion
Julian Priester - Trombones, Percussion
Buster Williams - Double Bass, Electric Bass, Percussion
Billy Hart - Drums, Percussion
Patrick Gleeson - ARP 2600 Synthesizer, Percussion

CD1
1. Hidden Shadows 42:35
2. Firewater 19:54
CD 2
1. Revelation 24:45
2. You'll Know When You Get There 15.19

Live at The Boarding House, San Francisco 1974
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TRACKLIST
01. Improvisation / Maiden Voyage (14:57)
02. Maiden Voyage / Actual Proof (15:43)

MUSICIANS (PROBABLE)
Herbie Hancock - piano
Bennie Maupin - flute
Paul Jackson - electric bass
Mike Clark - drums

PRODUCTION DETAILS
Recorded at The Boarding House, San Francisco, 1974

Herbie Hancock / Headhunters Live in Kansas City

16 October 1974

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Musicians:

Bennie Maupin - reeds
Herbie Hancock - piano, keyboards
Paul Jackson - bass
Mike Clark - drums
Bill Summers - percussions

Tracklist

01. Palm grease
02. Vein melter
03. Butterfly
04. Watermelon Man
05. Spank-a-lee
06. Bill Summers solo percussions
07. Chameleon

Lineage: FM > n generation tape > Aiwa Tape Deck AD-WX828 > Audigy Soundblaster > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave >FLAC Frontend (level 6)
LDB Special Series #28

Total time: 1:25:10
Radio broadcast
Excellent sound quality !!!
Format: FLAC



Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters
Live at Berlin Jazz Festival, Philharmomie, Berlin
November 3rd, 1974 

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Tracklist
Palm Grease - 14:06
Sly - 15:25
Butterfly - 12:04
Spank-A-Lee - 8:32
Unknown - 7:17

Herbie Hancock & Headhunters
Live in Bremen
Nov. 6, 1974
@ Never Enough Rhodes

TRACKLIST
01. 'Butterfly' (15:30)
02. 'Spank-A-Lee' (6:48)
03. 'Chameleon' (16:46)

MUSICIANS
Herbie Hancock - keyboards
Bennie Maupin - reeds
Paul Jackson - bass
Mike Clark - drums
Bill Summers - percussion

DETAILS / INFO
wma convrted to 192kbps mp3

Omaha Music Hall, Nebraska, Nov 17, 1975

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musicians
Herbie Hancock : Keys
Paul Jackson: bass
Mike Clark: Drums
Blackbyrd Mcknight: guitar
Bill Summers: percussion
Bennie Maupin: Reeds & Lyricon

tracklist
Hang Up Your Hangs Up
Percussion Solo
Steppin' In It
Talk
Watermelon Man
Bubbles

Ivanhoe Theatre, Chicago, Feb 16, 1977
aka Hancock/Pastorius "Live Voyage" (1977) 

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Recorded Live at the Ivanhoe Theater in Chicago on February 16, 1977

Musicians:
Herbie Hancock: keyboards
Jaco Pastorius: bass
Bennie Maupin: saxophones
James Levi: drums

Tracks
1. Introduction (:42)
2. Chameleon (14:49) [H.Hancock, B.Maupin, P.Jackson, H.Mason]
3. Hang Up Your Hang Ups (14:44) [H.Hancock, P.Jackson]
4. Maiden Voyage (7:10) [Herbie Hancock]
5. It Remains To Be Seen (13:35) [David Curry]
6. People Music (7:31) [H.Hancock, P.Jackson, M.Ragin]

Herbie Hancock Quartet with Jaco Pastorius

Live at University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA
February 20th, 1977 

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Musicians:

Herbie Hancock: Keys

Jaco Pastorious: Bass

Bennie Maupin: Saxes, lyricon

James Levi: Drums

Setlist:

Disc 1

01 Hang Up Your Hangups [+90cts] 15:51

02 Gentle Thoughts [+90cts] 12:12

03 It Remains to be Seen [+10cts] 12:53

Disc 2

04 JP Solo>Portrait of Tracy>Third Stone [+90cts] 7:58

05 Maiden Voyage [+90cts] 9:49

06 Chameleon (fade out) [+100cts] 13:22

07 Encore:Spider>Kuru [+75cts] 16:04

Info

Total time : 88.12 min

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> wav > Soundforge 5: speed correction > flac lvl7 w/SBA (530 MB).

Sound quality: B (hissy).

Original provided by mr_mag.

Speed correction by flambay.

Format: FLAC

Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Sept 29, 1978

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Fantastic soundboard quality ...

Herbie Hancock - Electric Piano, Keyboards
Bennie Maupin - Soprano & Tenor Saxophones
Webster Lewis - Keyboards
Paul Jackson - Bass
Bill Summers - Percussion
Alphonse Mouzon - Drums

Tracks:
1. Butterfly
2. Sunlight
3. I Thought It Was You
4. Chameleon
5. Shiftless Shuffle

Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana Special Band
"Live Under the Sky" 
Denen Colosseum, Tokyo, July 22, 1981 

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Herbie Hancock - keyboards

Carlos Santana - guitar
Ron Carter - bass
Tony Williams - drums
Wynton Marsalis - trumpet
David Margen - bass
Armando Peraza - percussion
Raul RekowW - percussion
Oresrs Vilato - percussion

Tracklist
1 Unknown Title
2 Quick Sketches
3 Spartacus
4 Watermelon Man - Evil Ways(Part 1)
5 Watermelon Man - Evil Ways(Part 2)
6 Round Midnight
7 Song For My Brother
8 Europe
9 Saturday Night

"VSOP 3 - Live in Athens" (1985) @ UBU ROI
(dead link) 

Thought I'd make a cover for this one :)

Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Bobby Hutcherson - vibes
Herbie Hancock - piano, keyboards
Ron Carter - bass
Tony Williams - drums

CD1/54:52
1. Footprints (Wayne Shorter) 9:04 [inc, cuts in]
2. It's Only a Paper Moon (12:38)
3. Cantaloupe Island (Herbie Hancock) 16:37
4. Byrdlike (Freddie Hubbard) 16:30

CD2/72:18
1. Ann HH (1:28)
2. Sister Cheryl (Tony Williams) 15:05
3. Night and Day (Cole Porter) 14:08
4. Ann HH > Little Waltz (Ron Carter) 9:27
5. Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock) 20:59
6. Oleo (Sonny Rollins) 11:08

Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo - 1987

This was at Dr Fusion's original blog ... gone gone gone ...


Musicians
Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock - piano
Ron Carter - bass
Tony Williams - drums

Tracks

Disc One (45:49)
1. DJ Intro - 1:57
2. Dolphin Dance - 20:07
3. Opus 1.5 - 9:26
5. Just One of Those Things - 14:19

Disc Two (46:09)
1. DJ Intro - 1:34
2. Sister Cheryl - 13:02
3. Loose Change - 17:53
4. Maiden Voyage - 13:37

Details
FLAC
Source: FM Tokyo broadcast, "Golden Live Stage," hosted by Makoto Aoki
Lineage:-Master cass >Audiophile USB >Steinberg Clean >WAV > CD Wave>CDR >EAC >WAV >FLAC Frontend -Wavelab 4.0 and SoundForge 6.0 clean-up by Milesian >CD Wave >FLAC Frontend
Photo: Tony Williams

Live in Hamburg

Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany

October 23, 1988

@ Bogard's Jazztapes
(dead link) 

Musicians

Herbie Hancock, p

Greg Osby, as & ss

Buster Williams, b

Al Foster, dr

Tracklist

1. Stella By Starlight

2. Footprints

3. Maiden Voyage

Herbie Hancock's Headhunters II

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland

July 19, 1989 [FLAC]

@ Dr Fusio
(dead link) 

Musicians:

Herbie Hancock - piano, keyboards

Bill Evans - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone

Wah Wah Watson - guitar

Darryl "The Munch" Jones - bass

Mino Cinelu - percussion

Leon Ndugu Chancler - drums

Chaka Khan* - vocals

Setlist:

Disc One (62:52):

1. Spider - 02:58

2. Swamp Rad pt. 1 - 14:45

3. Swamp Rad pt. 2 - 14:02

4. Butterfly - 13:12

5. Introductions - 04:18

6. The End of a Love Affair* - 07:19

7. You Got the Love* - 6:16

Disc Two (49:06):

1. Actual Proof - 17:39

2. Hang Up Your Hang Ups - 11:13

3. Chameleon - 20:12

Info :

Source: FM broadcast.

Lineage: FM >DAT >CDR (digital transfer) >EAC (secure) >Trader's Little Helper >FLAC. Thanks to Milesian.

Hancock & Metheny, Juan-Les-Pins, France 1990

@ Jazz Boot Experiment / alternate
(dead links) 

Musicians
Herbie Hancock : Piano, Keyboards
Pat Metheny : Guitar
Dave Holland : Bass
Jack De Johnette : Drums

Tracks
1. Cantaloupe Island (Start Missing)
2. The Batt
3. Parallel Realities
4. Eye Of The Hurricane

details
Length 49:10 min
Soundboard
MP3 @ 256 CBR

Herbie Hancock Quintet - 1992-07-02

Lugano, Switzerland

A Tribute To Miles Davis

@ T.U.B.E
(dead link) 

Musicians

Wallace Roney,tp

Wayne Shorter,ts,ss

Herbie Hancock,p

Ron Carter,b

Tony Williams,dr

Tracklist

01 - So What (9:27)

02 - R.J. (6:16)

03 - Little One (10:23)

04 - Pinocchio (10:07)

05 - All Blues (12:06)

06 - Drum Solo (2:54)

07 - Elegy (11:15)

08 - Orbits - Paraphernalia (13:48)

09 - Eighty One - The Sorcerer (14:58)

10 - Pee Wee (8:36)

Info

Playlist length: 1 hour 39 minutes 50 seconds (FM broadcast mp3@256)

Live in New York, 1993, unknown venue

@ Hook's Gems
(working!) 

tracklist

1. I Love You

2. One Finger Snap

3. Maiden Voyage

4. ?

5. Cantaloupe Island

6. Just One Of Those Things

Musicians

Herbie Hancock - piano

Jeff Littleton - bass

Gene Jackson - drums

Herbie Hancock Quartet : Umbria Jazz Festival 1.7.1996

@ Jazz Boot Experiment
(dead link) 

Lineup

Herbie Hancock : Acoustic piano

Craig Handy : Tenor Saxophone

Dave Holland : Acoustic bass

Gene Jackson : Drums

Herbie Hancock and the New Standard All-Stars

Live in Europe

Stravinski Hall, Montreux

July 14, 1997

was at Smuggled Sounds, currently unavailable

Tracklist

New York Minute

Mercy Street

Thieves In The Temple

You've Got It Bad Girl

Love is Stronger Than Pride

Musicians

Herbie Hancock (P.)

Michael Brecker (S.)

John Scofield (G.)

Dave Holland (Ac.B.)

Don Alias (Perc.)

Jack Dejohnette (Dr.)

Info

MP3 @ 256 , source FM, Sound A+

Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters

North Sea Jazz - Den Haag – July 11, 1998

@ Pathway To Unknown Worlds
(dead link) 

(cover is here only)

Herbie Hancock (keyb)

Bennie Maupin (sax)

Paul Jackson (b)

Mike Clark (dr)

Bill Summers (perc)

tracklist

1. Introduction of the band

2. Introductions continued

3. Skank It

4. Funk Hunter

5. Premonition

6. Bill Summers solo

7. Watermelon Man

8. Frankie and Kevin

9. Tiptoe

78 mins.

Jazzfest Berlin, December 1999 @ Bogard's Jazztapes
(dead link) 

Herbie Hancock, piano

Eddie Henderson, trumpet

Eli Degibri, tenor sax

Ira Coleman, bass

Terry Lyne Carrington, drums

Cyro Baptista, percussion

Tracklist:

1. Blueberry Rhyme

2. Medley: Fascinating Rhythm/ It Ain´t Necessarily So/ St. Louis Blues

3. One Finger Snap

'Directions In Music' live at JazzBaltica 2002, Salzau, Germany, July 6, 2002 @ Bogard's Jazztapes

(dead link) 

Herbie Hancock, piano

Michael Brecker, tenor sax

Roy Hargrove, trumpet

George Mraz, bass

Willie Jones III, drums

Tracklist

1. The Sorcerer

2. Misstery

3. Naima

4. So What/ Impressions

5. D Trane

6. Transition

7. My Ship

8. Pinocchio

Herbie Hancock / Wayne Shorter live at JazzBaltica 2002 Salzau, Germany

July 6, 2002

@ Bogard's Jazztapes

(dead link) 

Wayne Shorter, soprano saxophone

Herbie Hancock, piano

Tracklist

1. Sonrisa

2. Meridianne - a Wood Sylph

3. Footprints

4. Memory of Enchantment/ Maiden Voyage

5. Manhattan Lorelei

Herbie Hancock / Bobby Hutcherson Quartet

Live at the Barbican March 7, 2003

@ Smuggled Sounds

(dead link) 

Musicians

Herbie Hancock - piano

Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphones

Scott Colley - bass

Terri Lyne Carrington - drums

Tracklist

Dolphin Dance

Virtual Hornets

Actual Proof

Footprints

Little B's Poem

Details

Source : FM, Bitrate : MP3 @ 224

Smuggled Sounds Note : "Most of the tracks are linked in a long medley, I have cut the tracks into 7 parts"

Hancock / Holland / DeJohnette live at Montreal Jazz festival June 26, 2003 @ Bogard's Jazztapes

(dead link) 

Herbie Hancock, piano
Dave Holland, bass
Jack DeJohnette, drums

Tracklist
1. One Finger Snap
2. Seventh D/ The Eye of the Hurricane
3. Dolphin Dance

There was another version at a dead blog that had extra tracks :

01. For All You Are
02. Seventh D - The Eye of the Hurricane
03. Pastel Rhapsody
04. Shadow Dance
05. One Finger Snap
06. Dolphin DanceLame, CBR 192, 115 MB


Live at the Barbican, London, June 2004

@ Smuggled Sounds

(dead link) 

Herbie Hancock,
Wayne Shorter
Dave Holland
Brian Blade

Tracklist
01 - Sonrisa
02 - Pathways
03 - Footprints
04 - Canteloupe Island

Lame, CBR 224, 105 MB

Live in Perugia, July 18, 2004

(dead link) 

MUSICIANS
Wayne Shorter - tenor & soprano sax
Brian Blade - drums
Dave Holland - bass
Herbie Hancock - piano

TRACKS

01. Sonrisa
02. Visitor from Somewhere, Visitor from Nowhere
03. Pathways

01. Memory of Enchantement
02. Prometheus Unbound
03. Cantaloupe Island

DETAILS

Perugia, Teatro Morlacchi
July 18, 2004
RAI RadioTre broadcast
Lineage: RAI Radio 3 broadcast > Sanyo FMT-3510L FM tuner > Audigy SoundBlaster > HD > Sound Forge 7.0 > CD Wave Editor >
FLAC Frontend (level 6)

AVO Session - Switzerland, November 10, 2006 @ Zona de Jazz 
(working!) 
(cover here only) MUSICIANSHerbie Hancock - keyboards
Nathan East - bass, voice
Lionel Loueke - guitar, percussion, voice
Vinnie Colaiuta - drums

TRACKS

Actual Proof
Watermelon Man
Stitched Up
Maiden Voyage ***
Virgin Forest
Cantaloupe Island
Chameleon Parte 1
Chameleon Parte 2
Chameleon Parte 3

DETAILS

Herbie Hancock Avo Session
Messe Base, Suiza
10 Noviembre de 2006 .
Emitido el 27 de Enero de 2007 por el Canal Suizo SF DRS2.

Herbie Hancock Quintet

Britt Amphitheater, Jacksonville, OR, USA

June 18th, 2007 [FLAC]

@ Dr Fusion

(dead link) 

Musicians:

Herbie Hancock: Piano & keyboards

Nathan East : Bass

Lionel Loueke : Guitar

Vinnie Colaiuta: Drums

Setlist:

01. intro crowd

02. Butterfly > Actual Proof

03. Watermelon Man with seventeens

04. Stitched up

05. Virgin Forest

06. Maiden Voyage

07. I just called to say I love you

08. When Love comes to town

09. Cantaloupe Island

10. Band Introductions

11. (encore) - Chameleon (started from backstage)

12. Chameleon

Info :

A Lossless Legs GEMS Production . Recorded by: ArchivalAudio. Audience Recording. Master Info: 20' from stage dead center seated. Lineage: Rode NT-5's (hat rig) > MOTU Ultralite 24/44.1 > iBook G4 1.25mhz/1.2GB ram (via firewire) > AudioDesk 2.04

Transfer info: (raw SDII files opened into) Peak 4 (G4+) to track and perform fades saved as wave file - saved as 16 bit files - and regions exported .wav xACT v1.58 to FLAC (level 8) generate ffp and len output.

Herbie Hancock Quintet – “Live at Confederation Park”

Ottawa Jazz Festival, Ottawa, Canada

June 22nd, 2008 [FLAC]

GONE - was at Dr Fusion old blog

LINE-UP:
Herbie Hancock: Keys
Dave Holland: Bass
Chris Potter: Saxophone
Lionel Loueke: Guitar
Vinnie Colaiuta: Drums
Sonya Kitchell: Vocals
Amy Keys: Vocals


TRACKS :
01 [07:27] Herbie Talks #1
02 [13:39] Actual Proof
03 [02:36] Herbie Talks #2
04 [07:15] River
05 [06:43] When Loves Come To Town
06 [01:16] Herbie Talks #3
07 [07:25] Edith and the Kingpin
08 [06:30] Bass Solo
09 [12:56] Piano Solo
10 [02:13] Herbie Talks #4
11 [06:17] All I Want
12 [07:19] A Song For You
13 [10:18] Guitar Solo
14 [14:51] Chameleon
15 [16:20] Encore 1
16 [10:50] Encore 2

TECH:

Source: Mics: DSM-6S/M > PA-6LC3 > iHP-120(wav @ 4Source: Mics: DSM-6S/M > PA-6LC3 > iHP-120(wav @ 44.1 KHz 16 bit) Transfer: USB2 > Computer Hardrive > CD WAVE > FLAC (level 8) Recorded by: Zaid Khan/flipzoso Recording Notes: Recorded approx 12 feet from right stack (facing stage) with mics in hat about 6 feet off ground.

Live at Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC

June 20, 2008

[FLAC]

Was @ DR FUSION old blog, now gone

The band:

Herbie Hancock: Keys
Dave Holland: Bass
Chris Potter: Saxophone
Lionel Loueke: Guitar
Vinnie Colaiuta: Drums
Sonya Kitchell: Vocals
Amy Keys: Vocals

Set list:
01. Herbie Intro
02. Actual Proof
03. River
04. When Love Comes To Town
05. Edith And The Kingpin
06. Bass Solo
07. Piano Solo
08. All I Want
09. Guitar Solo
10. Drum Solo
11. Cantaloupe Island

Encore:
12. Chameleon
13. ?
14. ?

Tech :
Total time: 116.47 / Recorded by: kdj / Lineage: STC-11 > STC-9000 > iHP-120 > FLAC

Vienna, France , June 30th, 2008

@ T.U.B.E

(dead link) 

Musicians

Herbie Hancock (piano, keyboards)

Chris Potter (tenor sax)

Dave Holland (double bass, el - bass)

Vinnie Colaiuta (drums)

Lionel Loueke (guitar, vocal)

Sonya Kitchell (vocal)

Amy Keys (vocal)

126:44

"The River of Possibilities Tour"

Set list:

01 - Introduction (3:29)

02 - Actual Proof (14:00)

03 - River (7:49)

04 - All I Want (5:55)

05 - When Love Comes to Town (8:53)

06 - Bass Intro (4:57)

07 - Maiden Voyage (15:14)

08 - A Song for You (8:19)

09 - Virgin Forest (11:20)

10 - Cantaloupe Island (16:37)

11 - Chameleon I (19:54)

12 - Chameleon II (10:13)

Info

(TV broadcast DVD rip, mp3@256)

Live at JazzFest Berlin,

Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany

9th November 2008

@ Bogard's Jazztapes

(dead link) 

Line-up:
Herbie Hancock, p
Terence Blanchard, tp
James Genus, b
Grégoire Maret, harmonica
Kendrick Scott, dr

Setlist:
01 intros 03:21
02 Actual Proof 10:34
03 Speak Like A Child - V (The Visitor) 29:16
04 Seven Teens 26:18
05 Chameleon 12:31

TT: 1:22:00
Format: Mp2
DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

DOWNLOADABLE PODCASTS from ROPEADOPE

1. BELDEN ON HERBIE
Concentrates on Hancock's session work from 1965-70

2. HERBIE / HEADHUNTERS 1973-1974
Live recordings, including some of the shows above.

3. HERBIE HANCOCK 1975-1980
Live recordings.


TORRENTS, TORRENTS, TORRENTS
At least ten more live 70s Herbie Hancock shows are to be found via torrent at Dime-A-Dozen. You need to create a (free) account there.

WHY NOT BECOME REALLY OBSESSIVE ?
There are no file links here - db.etree is a database of live music bootlegs, including many Herbie Hancock shows, showing tracks and personnel. Users can leave messages seeking a particular show. Clicking the above link will take you to listings for all live Herbie Hancock bootlegs from 1966-2007.

CAN YOU HELP?

See all the dead links ?

Do you have them ? Did you download them? Can you upload them?

Thanks in advance for any help .... though no-one ever responds to re-up requests, hmmm

Comments are always appreciated too ....