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 ·  Posted: 13.02.2007 - 01:14  ·  #9
Head Hunters is great. And I would also second S-e-x-t-a-n-t if it wouldn't be censored.

It's apparently so good that it's outright profane!
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 ·  Posted: 22.04.2007 - 17:54  ·  #10
Early to mid 70s Hancock is classic EM/jazz funk. HEADHUNTERS is the peak, with the ARPs and Moogs.

I think ROCKITT is hopelessly, unfairly overpraised. It's just a jazzy, guideless rip off of the Trevor Horn production BUFFALO GALS. After about 30 seconds it is just tiresome. The far superior AXEL F was a thematic, melodic variation on the same thing and I think that's a much more satisfying listen. Amusingly, Hancock's score to the movie ACTION JACKSON is a painful rip off of Harold Faltermeyer meets Watermelon Man.
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 ·  Posted: 23.04.2007 - 04:03  ·  #11
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I think ROCKITT is hopelessly, unfairly overpraised. It's just a jazzy, guideless rip off of the Trevor Horn production BUFFALO GALS. After about 30 seconds it is just tiresome. The far superior AXEL F was a thematic, melodic variation on the same thing and I think that's a much more satisfying listen.


Welcome aboard.... but, gotta say that I disagree completely :)
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 ·  Posted: 14.05.2007 - 20:12  ·  #12
I'm just playing PALM GREASE from the THRUST album right now and still have to say that IMO the funk period was Hancock's best. Then again, to me this was possibly the best era in music, period.
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 ·  Posted: 15.05.2007 - 15:08  ·  #13
I like pretty most of Herbie's releases, but my favorites tend toward the 60's era Blue Note stuff (both the quieter smaller group albums like Maiden Voyage/Empyrean Isles and the denser larger group later albums like Speak like a Child/The Prisoner) and Headhunters era. A lot of good stuff on the Mwandishi albums sandwiched in between.
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 ·  Posted: 10.06.2007 - 07:05  ·  #14
I'm not a huge Herbie fan, but I did see him in concert with Chick Corea (Elektric Band) back in like 1988/89 or so. Herbie nearly brought the house down, and Corea finished the job! It was a great show, and Herbie's Fairlight CMI was trumped only by Corea's Synclavier (DMS).
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interview published in VPRO Gids July 12th, 2008 (in dutch)

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