Herbie Hancock - 'Man With a Suitcase' - comp. 20

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Hello. Yes, it's been 18 months, so I thought I'd get an entry in for what's left of 2015. 

I was listening to the blistering Herbie Hancock rhodes solo in Joe Farrell's fantastic cover of Stevie Wonder's "Too High", and decided to compile some of my favourite Hancock electric piano tracks from other people's albums - so here's a selection from 1968-1978. The compilation title refers to the portable "suitcase" Fender Rhodes. 

Of course, there are endless Miles Davis tracks from this period with Hancock on rhodes, and I didn't want to get bogged down there, but I've included 1968's "Stuff" because you can hear Hancock in transition, using the Rhodes in a raw state, referencing his acoustic piano style while he learns the new instrument. This continues throughout the turn of the decade through tracks like Joe Henderson's "Black Narcissus"; Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay" and Miroslav Vitouš' "Infinite Search".

Within a few years, Hancock''s already developed his clustered chord structures and adjusted the amplification for a punchier, rhythmic style on tracks like Joe Farrell's "Too High" and Milt Jackson's "People Make the world Go Round". He's also exploring the in-built chorus, tremelo, delay and panning effects, and incorporating them in his writing and playing style on tracks like Eddie Henderson's "Scorpio-Libra", and Norman Connors' "Blue"and "Revelation".

The latest track here is Quincy Jones' beautifully-orchestrated 1978 version of Hancock's "Tell Me a Bedtime Story". Jones has scored Hancock's rhodes solo from the 1969 original version for strings, then brought Hancock in to create new textures around that arrangement. 

TRACKLIST

01 Miles Davis - Stuff (1968)

02 Joe Henderson - Black Narcissus (1969)

03 Miroslav Vitouš - Infinite Search (1970)

04 Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (1970)

05 Norman Connors - Blue (1972)

06 Milt Jackson - People Make The World Go Round (1973)

07 Norman Connors - Revelation (1974)

08 Freddie Hubbard & Stanley Turrentine ‎– Hornets (1974)

09 Eddie Henderson - Scorpio-Libra (1973)

10 Harvey Mason - Hop Scotch (1975)

11 Joe Farrell - Too High (1974)

12 Norman Connors - Carlos II (1974)

13 Quincy Jones - Tell Me A Bedtime Story (1978)

14 Eddie Henderson - Ecstasy  (1978)

15 Miroslav Vitouš - Epilogue (1970)

It seems that Divshare has died, so all of the previews on previous posts are gone, grrrrr .... I'd appreciate any advice about other players I can use - even during the writing of this post, Soundcloud has deleted a few of my preview excerpts because they sensed what they were. I've re-upped all previews on the blog three times now, and I realise that nothing ever lasts. 

For those of you who are new, there are more rhodes compilations here,  there's a large selection of live Herbie Hancock 1970s bootlegs here, or just browse through the blog for other stuff - it's all active ... for now .... 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this 20th rhodes compilation - grab it from the links at the top of the post, and please say hi in the comments below, so I know that I'm not just talking to myself.

Re-Upped : 17 Herbie Hancock live shows from the 1970s

This is just to let you know that I've re-upped the 17 Herbie Hancock concerts from the 1970s at the Herbie Hancock 53 Live Bootlegs post from 2008.

Several links there have been replaced with lossless WAV versions as well.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to track down all of the post-1981 concert links, which are almost all dead, but contributions would be very welcome.

The Ultrasonic Studios concert from 1973 has had more downloads than anything I've ever posted here, it's a great show.

Anyway check them out.

Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters (1974)

4 x Herbie Hancock on Musik Laden, German TV, 1974 Click here for more Herbie Hancock on this blog.

Herbie Hancock Mwandishi live (1972)

Here are some fantastic videos of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band from 1972, performing "Water Torture", "Toys" and "Sleeping Giant".




French TV broadcast 1972

Herbie Hancock - Piano & Rhodes
Eddie Henderson - Trumpet
Julian Priester - Trombone
Bennie Maupin - Soprano Sax, Flute & Bass Clarinet
Buster Williams - Bass
Billy Hart - Drums

More Herbie-related things here

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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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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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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Harold Vick - "Watch What Happens" (1967) ft. Herbie Hancock

Not even I'M gay enough to write reviews like this

Some new year recovery music for you all ...

We went through the career of saxophonist Harold Vick in the "Don't Look Back" post back in October, so check back there for some history, some excerpts from all of his albums; and various discographies. Also see the "Power Of Feeling" post that followed that one.

In this 1967 album (also released at some stage as "The Melody is Here") we get Vick in two settings :

Three tracks feature a quartet comprising Harold Vick on sax , Herbie Hancock on piano, Grady Tate on drums and Bob Cranshaw on bass. The standout track from the quartet session is Joe Bonner's beautiful "Ode to Trane", with superb understated solos from Hancock and Vick.

The other eight tracks are arranged and conducted by the idiosyncratic Ed Bland, a classical composer who sidelined in in individualistic soul and RnB arrangements - check this great post at Office Naps for a rundown on Mr Bland. The aforementioned quartet are joined by an uncredited nameless female chorus, trumpeter Jimmy Owens, reeds man Joe Farrell and several others.

Bland seems here to arrange in tones rather than in individual instruments, with lots of unison work from the voices, vibes, piano, reeds and so on, with the characteristics of each instrument - percussive, melodic, tonal etc - emphasised in different parts of each note. While Vick gets to break out with solos, everyone else is tightly arranged in the manner of a conducted orchestra - though featured pianist Herbie Hancock gets to break out on a few tracks.

It's all quite breezy and light with smatterings of a cocktail ambience - but we're talking good quality cocktails, so drink up! The ones that are sticking with me are the move themes "This Hotel" (from Richard Quines' "Hotel"); "Watch What Happens" (from Jacques Demy's experimental musical 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg', which also gave us Catherine Devenue), and Vick's shuffling "Eloquence".

Hit this one with some deceptively strong cocktails. Please leave recipes in the comments.

Discography trivia :

* Herbie Hancock and Grady Tate had recorded a Don Sebesky arrangement of the track "Watch What Happens" two months before on Wes Montgomery's album "A Day In the Life".

* For Hancock, this album comes between Bobby Hutcherson's "Oblique" and his own "Blow Up" soundtrack.


TRACKLIST

01. 'Watch What Happens' (Legrand, Gimbel) from the film 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'

02. 'Ode to Trane' (Joe Bonner)

03. 'Serenata' (Leroy Anderson)

04. 'Where Butterflies Play' (Harold Vick)

05. 'If ever I would leave you' (A.Lerner, F.Loewe)
from the musical 'Camelot'

06. 'This Hotel' (Johnny Keating) from the Warner Bros picture "Hotel"

07. 'Eloquence' (Harold Vick)

08. 'Angel Eyes' (Matt Dennis - Earl Brent)

09. 'Whisper Not' (Benny Golson)

10. 'Guava Gelly' (Edward Bland)

11. 'Autumn Sunset' (Harold Vick)

MUSICIANS

Tracks #3, 10, 11: Harold Vick Orchestra (21.08.67)
Harold Vick - tenor sax
Jimmy Owens - trumpet, flugelhorn
Tom McIntosh - trombone
George Marge and Joe Farrell - reeds
John Blair - violin
Herbie Hancock - piano
Everett Barksdale - guitar
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Grady Tate - drums
Teddy Charles - vibraphone
Dave Carey - percussion
uncredited female vocal chorus

Tracks #1, 4, 6, 7, 9: (22.08.67)
Same as above except McIntosh out and Lawrence Lucie (guitar) added.

Tracks #2, 5, 8: Harold Vick Quartet (23.08.67)
Harold Vick - tenor and soprano saxaphone
Herbie Hancock - piano
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Grady Tate - drums

PRODUCTIONRecorded in NYC, August 1967
Arranged and conducted by Ed Bland
Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio B
Recording Engineer - Don Miller
Produced by Brad McCuen

HAROLD VICK DISCOGRAPHY1963 "Steppin' Out" at Ile Oxumaré
1964 rejected Blue Note sessions May 27th
1966 "Straight Up" at Call It Anything
1966 "The Caribbean Suite" at Orgy in Rhythm
1967 "Commitment" (released 1974) also at Never Enough Rhodes
1968 "Watch What Happens" in comments here.
1973 "Power Of Feeling" (as Sir Edward) also at Never Enough Rhodes
1974 "Don't Look Back" also at Never Enough Rhodes
1977 "After The Dance" at My Jazz World


HAROLD VICK SIDEMAN DISCOGRAPHY with linksis HERE

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Norman Connors - "Dance of Magic" (1972) + discography

originally posted by Bacoso at "Orgy in Rhythm", November 2006

Norman Connors' first album as a leader is a beautiful collision where the post-Bitches Brew crew meet up with post-Pharoah Sanders spiritual jazz across the rhythms and harmonies of latin america. Check the personnel on the cover, all you could want really!

While almost all of these people would end up in jazz-influenced RnB/disco within a few years of this album - in particular Connors himself - their work in the 1972-75 period is fascinating in its search for, and creation of, new hybrid forms. There are several albums that contain a large crossover of the musicians that are on this one, and taken together they make a wonderful journey. Here's what you need to check out :

Norman Connor's next two wonderful albums, "Dark of Light" and "Love from the Sun" which both develop ideas fermented here; Stanley Clarke's "Children Of Forever", and Carlos Garnett's "Black Love", "Journey To Enlightenment" and "Let This Melody Ring On". Plus of course, we've got Hancock, Henderson and Hart from the Mwandishi band, who we've discussed recently. For them, this comes the same year as "Crossings".

Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater appears on most of the above albums, but not this one - unless she's one of the mysterious U.B.F Singers on the first track?

On the immediate front, many of the people here seem to have come straight off the back of Pharoah Sanders' "Black Unity" and "Live at the East" sessions - Connors, Clarke, Garnett, Cecil McBee and Billy Hart - while some of the sessions that make up Sanders' "Village Of The Pharoahs" (Clarke, Connors, McBee) occur soon before and after this album.

Original 1972 Cobblestone cover
I prefer the 1976 Buddha release (at top) due to Norman's jacket.

I listed all of those albums from saxophonist Carlos Garnett because he's a strong force across the first three Connors albums, and his own subsequent albums can be seen as a continuation of this particular fusion of spiritual jazz and latin elements. There's a strong melodic/harmonic influence from him in the main themes of the "Dance Of Magic" tracks, and he arranged the title track, which takes up all of Side One.

Garnett had worked with co-saxophonist Gary Bartz on Mtume's "Alkebu-Lan - Land Of The Blacks" as well as various Miles Davis sessions. For Bartz, this session occurs in the same year as "Juju Street Songs" / "Follow the Medicine Man".

At this stage Herbie Hancock is stretching his rhodes textures as far as they can go, now fully integrating the keyboard's delay, distortion, wah-wah and ring modulation effects into his playing and composition, just a year before he would shift his sonic experimentation to synthesisers. For Hancock, this session falls between Joe Farrell's "Moongerms" (where he'd been with Stanley Clarke) and Miles Davis' "On the Corner" (which he'd go on to with Garnett and Billy Hart)

I hadn't listened to this album for a few years until today, and it's the percussion that really 'strikes' me this time - Connors has assembled Brasilian wunderkind Airto Moreira and up to six others, and it's just a total funky joy to listen to. Conga player Nat Bettis had been with Gary Bartz on his NTU Troop "Harlem Bush Music" series of three albums, and he and Anthony Wiles had played on Pharoah Sanders' "Thembi" the year before alongside Cecil McBee.

1972 is a huge year for Airto - he recorded his album "Free" (with Stanley Clarke in tow); Buddy Terry's "Pure Dynamite" included Airto, Clarke, Hart and Henderson; both Airto and Clarke continue on to Deodato's best-known effort "Prelude", and he's all over Cannonball Adderley's "Happy People".

Session pix, right-click for larger
L-R Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Cecil McBee, Eddie Henderson, Art Webb, Gary Bartz, Carlos Garnett, Airto Moreira.

Connors' twenty-one minute "Dance Of Magic", which takes up Side One of the original album, starts with the vocal chants of the U.B.F Singers, then rises and falls with barrages of latin percussion over the twin bass attack of McBee and Clarke. Hancock holds the rhythmic centre on acoustic piano, while saxaophonists Garnett and Gary Bartz wail freely over the top, followed by a solo from trumpeter Eddie Henderson and then Hancock, who's initially so caught up in the general percussiveness of it all that he starts plucking and scraping the piano strings.

Cecil McBee's "Morning Change" (preview at top of post) at times melodically presages his album "Mutima" , and is anchored by Hancock's rhodes and a beautiful central sax and trumpet melody that develops into a solo from trumpeter Henderson, here still flying without the reverbs and delays he would soon swamp his sound in, and then a soprano sax solo from Garnett.


Stanley Clarke's ten minute "Blue" is built around a melody line than combines Henderson's muted trumpet with Art Webb's flute. Webb was strongly featured on Clarke's "Children Of Forever" album, and he excels here in a three minute solo. Henderson continues on muted trumpet, then finally Hancock goes crazy on the wah-wah rhodes before the melody is recalled.

The album finishes with Connors' appropriately titled "Give the Drummer Some". He bursts in with a short solo that breaks down to vocal/percussion call and responses, then the conga leads the entire percussion section, joined by Connors, into an exuberant finish.

As mentioned before, Norman Connors went on to develop these ideas across his next two albums, then made a transition into a jazz-influenced RnB that was also highly influential. You'll find all of his 70s and 80s discography, as well as his production work, in blog links at the base of this post.

Links for this album are in the comments. Bacoso's upload had expired, so I've upped this from the deleted CD re-issue which is apparently itself quite rare and valuable these days. So, since I'm also supplying WAV files, you can all print the cover out, rip it and sell it on Ebay, then we'll all take a nice holiday - which I for one need after the Todd Cochran extravaganza. By the way, the epic Cochran post didn't appear on feeds for some reason, so have a read if you missed it ....

TRACKLIST

01. Dance Of Magic (21:00) - Norman Connors
02. Morning Change (6:29) - Cecil McBee
03. Blue (10:20) - Stanley Clarke
04. Give The Drummer Some (2:22) - Norman Connors

MUSICIANS

Drums - Norman Connors
Bass - Cecil McBee (1,2) , Stanley Clarke
Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electric Piano - Herbie Hancock
Alto & Soprano Saxophones - Gary Bartz
Tenor & Soprano, Saxophones - Carlos Garnett
Flute - Art Webb
Trumpet - Eddie Henderson
Baliphone - Anthony Wiles
Percussion - Airto Moreira (2,3,4) , Alphonse Mouzon (1,3) , Anthony Wiles , Babafemi (1) , Billy Hart (2,3,4)
Percussion, Congas - Nat Bettis
Vocals - U.B.F. Singers, The (1)

PRODUCTION DETAILS 

1972 - Cobblestone, CST-9024
then re-released :
1976 - Buddah, BDS 5674
Producer - Dennis Wilen , Skip Drinkwater
Engineer [Recording] - Harry Yarmark
Mastered By - Sam Feldman
Recorded at Bell Sound Studios, NYC , 1972

NORMAN CONNORS on Planet Blog :

** spiritual norman **

"Dance of Magic" (1972) - in COMMENTS HERE
"Dark Of Light" (1973) MP3- at Pharoah's Dance
"Dark Of Light" (1973) FLAC- at Call It Anything
"Love from the Sun" (1973) at My Jazz World
"Bartz - Henderson - Connors - live at Nemu Jazz Inn" (1975) - also here. 

** transitional norman**

"Slewfoot" (1974) at My Jazz World

** soul-disco king norman ** ( these are great too)

"Saturday Night Special" (1975) at My Jazz World
"You are my Starship" (1976) at Blak's Lair
"Romantic Journey" (1977) at Blak's Lair
"This is your Life" (1978) at My Jazz World / alternate
(12" single of "Captain Connors" at Tuttsi Fruttsi Icecream)
"Invitation" (1979) at Blak's Lair

"Take it to the Limit" (1980) at Soulfunkjazz's Blog
"Mr C" (1981) at Blak's Lair / alternate

** producer norman **

"Norman Connors presents Aquarian Dream" - Aquarian Dream (1976) at Baby Grandpa
("Phoenix" 12" extended version @ tuttsi fruttsi icecream)
"Fantasy" - Aquarian Dream (1978) at My Jazz World
("You're a Star / Play it for me - Aquarian Dream - 12") also at this blog.
"Sharing" - Vitamin E (1977) ONE plus TWO
"Love Will Find a Way" - Pharoah Sanders (1978) at El Goog ja
"Celestial Sky" - Starship Orchestra (1980) at My Jazz World
"Back for More" - Al Johnson (1980) at Here Only Good Music
"Can't We Fall In Love Again" - Phyllis Hyman (1981) at Groove With You

** later jazz norman **

"Beyond a Dream" (live with Pharoah Sanders) (1978) at My Jazz World
"Meditation" - Pharoah Sanders at Ile Oxumaré
(this is a bootleg of a different part of the same concert)

** norman the sideman **

"The Magic Of Ju-ju" - Archie Shepp (1967) at Into the Rhythm
Jackie McLean - session rejected by Blue Note (1968)
"Hues" - Sam Rivers (1971) at Inconstant Sol
"Live at The East" - Pharoah Sanders (1971) at Pharoah's Dance
"Black Unity" - Pharoah Sanders (1971) at Oufar Khan
"Love In Us All" - Pharoah Sanders at Pharoah's Dance
"Streams" - Sam Rivers (1973) at Ile Oxumaré
"Village Of the Pharoahs" - Pharoah Sanders (1973) at Pharoah's Dance "Wisdom Through Music" - Pharoah Sanders (1974) at Magic of Juju
"Odyssey" - Charles Earland (1976) at My Jazz World

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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
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never enough rhodes - compilation #4

'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' - D'Angelo


'Superstition' - Ahmad Jamal


'Twenty Four' - Frank McComb

Continuing the series of Fender Rhodes jazz from the 70s, this time adding a few classics to the perhaps lesser known. Joe Zawinul's version of his composition "In a Silent Way" doesn't get enough play, and with the response to the live Herbie Hancock post, I thought I'd add his fantastic "Death Wish" theme.

Also two "special contemporary guests" this time - D'Angelo with his gorgeous downtempo take on Roy Ayers' "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", and Frank McComb with his almost-spooky channelling of Donny Hathaway in "Twenty Four".

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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

MP3-1 and MP3-2

or 

WAV 

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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or
WAV files download 
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
elsewhere on this blog, click the link.

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

Audience recording. Lineage: AUD>?>CDr from Trade>EAC>WAV>Track w/ CD Wave>FLAC

> 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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DOWNLOAD AIFF 1 - 2 - 3

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 ....