Herbie Hancock

[fineslime]

sup music pals

I'm trying to dig deeper into Herbie Hancock! I absolutely love Watermelon Man, but I'd love to know what other tracks/ albums I should check out. If anyone can give me some recommendos I'd appreciate it!

[Nancy Chin]

Headhunters (the album watermelon man is on) is absolutely phenomenal. One of my favorite albums ever. Definitely hear the whole thing if you haven't. After that I'd say go with sextant if you want to hear more of him playing synths. If you want acoustic piano go with empyrean isles. Have fun, Herbie's awesome!

[Weededed]

https://youtu.be/Z2IBiD44xEs

https://youtu.be/TikRSpQDr6I

https://youtu.be/lwP8xma57iI

[Weededed]

Also this:

https://youtu.be/kImneXv0jhQ

[mattchew]

His entire “Mwandishi” era is so banging, really all these records hit front to back:

Mwandishi
Crossings
Sextant
Headhunters

And the live record July 21st ‘71 in Nice, France from this time period smokes too.

Just copped Man-child the other day actually which is still the tail end of the Headhunter era (think there’s two or three records between this and headhunters but I don’t own them) and while it’s good, he really breaks out during Mwandishi era, experiments, and it’s very, very rad.

[yep yep]

saw him live 10-15 years ago. such a good show!

[jeffgrillz]

In addition to what people have mentioned already, I'll recommend the album Thrust if you want a similar vibe to Sextant or Head Hunters. And definitely check out stuff from the 60s on Blue Note like Maiden Voyage.

"Nobu" is also a favorite cut. That sequenced synth line with the Fender Rhodes is some future shit...

https://youtu.be/XqDim6Ix96E

And I have to share one of my all-time favorite videos, Herbie in the studio with Quincy messing with a Fairlight CMI...

https://youtu.be/n6QsusDS_8A

[fineslime]

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. Really digging a lot of toys l these recommendations! This popped up in my YouTube today...


http://youtu.be/K3lgmnsTdcA

Gotta have that funk!