Herbie Hancock - Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock
Friday, October 24, 2008
Verve VERF01615-2 | ***Herbie Hanock (p; el p; key; vocoder) and various ensembles from 1962 to present day.Herbie Hancock is a fully certified jazz giant, and this career retrospective skims over the wave-tops of a remarkable career in jazz. Shoe-horning almost 50 years of recorded music (over 400 albums either in his own name or on which he has played) into just 12 selections is an unenviable job, and rather than bemoan the inevitable omissions which the limited space of one CD offers, it is better to concentrate on what is represented on this album, which end-to-end makes for an enjoyable 70 minute listen.
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