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HERBIE HANCOCK

TAKIN’ OFF (LP) (LTD)
Label JAZZ IMAGES
Catalog 37053
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-12-28
Description
・ LIMITED EDITION
・ 180 gram Pure Virgin Vinyl LPs in Gatefold Packaging.
・ Cover Art by Jean-Pierre Leloir.
Takin’ Off marked Herbie Hancock’s first album under his own name. All of the compositions are by the leader who is backed by such stars as Dexter Gordon Freddie Hubbard Butch Warren and Billy Higgins. The album includes one of Hancock’s best known compositions “Watermelon Man” which made it to the Top 100 on the pop charts. The tune would become a jazz standard and would be covered by Mongo Santamaria among others. Renowned jazz critic Leonard Feather stated the following about the LP: “As the first solo album by Herbie Hancock this record will serve for many listeners as an introduction to the talents of a young and unmistakably promising artist who recently signed an exclusive Blue Note contract.”

FREDDIE HUBBARD trumpet; DEXTER GORDON tenor sax; HERBIE HANCOCK piano; BUTCH WARREN bass; BILLY HIGGINS drums
Englewood Cliffs New Jersey May 28 1962.
Original sessions recorded by RUDY VAN GELDER and produced by ALFRED LION.
tracklisting
SIDE A:
1. WATERMELON MAN
2. THREE BAGS FULL
3. EMPTY POCKETS
SIDE B:
1. THE MAZE
2. DRIFTIN’
3. ALONE AND I
All tracks composed by HERBIE HANCOCK
 

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