Herbie Hancock – V.S.O.P. (2LP, 150g, Japanese Edition)
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Herbie Hancock - Piano, Electric Piano [click here to see more products featuring Herbie Hancock]
Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Effects: Freddie Hubbard (A1–B1), Mganga Eddie Henderson (C1–C3)
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Lyricon, Alto Flute: Wayne Shorter (A1–B1), Bennie Maupin (C1–D2)
Bass: Ron Carter (A1–B1), Mchezaji Buster Williams (C1–C3), Paul Jackson (D1–D2), James Levi (D1–D2)
Drums: Tony Williams (A1–B1), Jabali Billy Hart (C1–C3), Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (D1–D2)
Trombone, Bass Trombone: Pepo Julian Priester (C1–C3)
Guitar: Ray Parker Jr. (D1–D2), Wah Wah Watson (D1–D2)
Percussion: Kenneth Nash (D1–D2)
Written by Herbie Hancock
2 LPs, Gatefold jacket
Original analog Master Tape : YES
Heavy Press : 150g
Record Color : Black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12"
Stereo
Live
Record Press : unspecified (Japan)
Label : CBS Japan
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded on June 29, 1976 at The Newport Jazz Festival in New York
Engineered by David Rubinson, Fred Catero
Produced by David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
Mastered by George Horn, Paul Stubblebine
Art Direction by John Berg
Design by John Coll
Liner Notes by Herbie Hancock
Photography by Fred Lombardi, Tom Copy, Kazuhiro Tsuruta
Originally released in 1977
Tracks :
Side A:
- Piano Introduction
- Maiden Voyage
- Nefertiti
Side B
- Introduction Of Players / Eye Of The Hurricane
Side C
- Toys
- Introductions
- You'll Know When You Get There
Side D
- Hang Up Your Hang Ups
- Spider
Reviews :
« V.S.O.P. is a landmark album in the history of jazz, though not at all in the way it was intended. George Wein organized a Herbie Hancock retrospective concert at the 1977 Newport Jazz Festival in New York where three bands from Hancock's past and present -- the 1965-1968 Miles Davis Quintet with Freddie Hubbard deputizing for the indisposed Miles, the 1969-1973 sextet, and Hancock's then-current jazz-funk outfit -- would share the stage. As things turned out, it was the Miles band reunion that grabbed most of the attention, leading to several tours which in turn inspired a whole generation of young musicians (led by Wynton Marsalis) to turn their backs upon electronics and make bop-grounded acoustic jazz the lingua franca of jazz for the rest of the 20th century. This is not the outcome the forward-looking Hancock would have preferred, but you cannot deny that he, Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams sound marvelously in sync with each other, playing in a free-flowing, post-bop style none of them had touched in years. (Hancock is actually playing a Yamaha electric grand piano, not an acoustic grand -- there's a substantial sonic difference, yet one that went unremarked upon by otherwise-watchful purists at the time). The concert also turned out to be a farewell to the great Hancock Sextet (which has yet to reunite on records); this group actually made the most absorbing, adventurous music of that evening, with trumpeter Eddie Henderson laying a more credible claim to Miles' pithy idiom than Hubbard had earlier. The sextet plays only two numbers: "Toys" and "You'll Know When You Get There." It's a pity there isn't more. The two-LP set concludes with a somewhat disappointing jazz-funk set from a post-Headhunters edition band with Bennie Maupin and Paul Jackson as holdovers. They don't quite raise the temperature, or the complexity level as high as earlier Hancock jazz-funk outfits. The contrast between Hancock's present on this given day and his illustrious past was no doubt used as ammunition by the back-to-bop crowd to proclaim that "fusion" has got to go, which was unfair. The reverberations from this concert continue to this day. » AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell
Ratings:
AllMusic : 4,5 / 5 ; Discogs : 5 / 5