Maiden Voyage

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Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock's studio album

Publication
(s)

May 1965

admission

March 17, 1965

Label (s) Blue Note Records

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC , SACD

Genre (s)

Modal jazz , hard bop

Title (number)

5

running time

42:20

occupation

production

Rudy Van Gelder , Alfred Lion

Studio (s)

Van Gelder Studio , Englewood Cliffs

chronology
Empyrian Isles
(1964) 		Maiden Voyage Speak Like a Child
(1968)
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Maiden Voyage is a jazz album by Herbie Hancock , recorded in Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey on March 17, 1965 and released on Blue Note Records .

The album

Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff had learned early on that most talents were found through recommendations from other musicians; Jackie McLean brought Bobby Hutcherson and Tony Williams to Blue Note , Donald Byrd introduced them to Duke Pearson and Herbie Hancock . With Hancock, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard , vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, and tenor saxophonists Joe Henderson and Wayne Shorter, Blue Note had tracked down and signed an impressive second generation of hardbop musicians; they were constantly expanding their means of expression.

After two first albums under his own name, Takin 'Off (1962) and My Point of View (1963), he succeeded in making "almost perfect classics" ( Michael Cuscuna ) with Empyrian Isles and Maiden Voyage , which were created with almost the same line-up. to bring in. The two Hancock albums as well as the LPs Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard's Hub-Tones , Bobby Hutchersons Components or Joe Hendersons Mode for Joe , which were made soon, were productions that were played by small formations and were well designed and arranged; the musicians already knew the material before they came into the studio, which allowed them to concentrate on feeling and fresh improvisations when the tapes were running, says Michael Cuscuna in his review of this era of the legendary jazz label.

As the original liner notes suggest, Maiden Voyage was designed as a concept album ; An oceanic atmosphere was to be created musically, as indicated by the titles that were supposed to relate to the sea. The musicians developed the concept by giving space to the music and creating dynamic moments. Freddie Hubbard later said in a conversation that his contributions to the two albums as well as his solo in Oliver Nelson's “Stolen Moments” in 1961 were heavily inspired by John Coltrane . The title track "Maiden Voyage" was originally written as a background for a TV commercial. “Little One” had previously been recorded by the Miles Davis Quintet on the 1965 ESP album. Six days before the actual session, the band had recorded the title track, "Little One" and "Dolphin Dance" for the first time, but with Hubbard on cornet and drummer Stu Martin in place of Tony Williams ; however, the admission was rejected and lost.

Rating of the album

source rating
Allmusic
All about jazz
Penguin Guide to Jazz

Maiden Voyage is now one of the essential albums of Hancock's early creative phase, Cook and Morton consider the album to be "one of the greatest in post-war jazz history". They justify their award (four stars with an additional crown) in their Penguin Guide to Jazz with the fact that the album (like Empyrian Isles ) represents the work of a twenty-four year old. Both are extremely calm records; Joachim-Ernst Berendt therefore compared it to Claude Debussy's La Mer and placed it on the same level as the best tone poems by Duke Ellington . George Coleman plays with exquisite understatement; it is also no wonder that the chemistry of the band is so good, after all - with the exception of Hubbard - it was Miles Davis ' group; overall it is a work of timeless freshness and a high degree of creative tension. Ian Carr counts the two works in the same breath among the classic albums of the 1960s; the title track Maiden Voyage , Dolphin Dance and Cantaloupe Island (on Empyrian Isles ) have become jazz standards. The band's game was flawless on both albums and Hubbard was in his best moments. Bob Blumenthal also counts George Coleman's contributions to Maiden Voyage among the most remarkable that he has ever recorded in his entire career. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 .

The music magazine Jazzwise selected the album at number 29 on The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World list . Stuart Nicholson wrote:

"A classic jazz album produced at a time when such albums seemed to be coming out every other day. Essentially the Miles Davis Quintet of the day with Hubbard pinch hitting for Davis (and playing as well as he would at any point of career) it contained two Hancock originals that would assume quickly the status of jazz standards. The binary 34-bar 'Dolphin Dance' and the modal 32-bar 'Maiden Voyage', with its pre-arranged rhythmic structure that is maintained throughout, will probably be played as long as jazz itself. Add to that 'Little One', previously recorded by Davis on ESP, and you have the concept album to end all concept albums "

- Stuart Nicholson

Rolling Stone magazine voted the album 14th in its 2013 list of the 100 best jazz albums.

It ranks 82nd in Pitchfork Media's selection of the 200 best albums of the 1960s .

The titles

All compositions are by Herbie Hancock .

page 1
1. Maiden Voyage - 7:53
2. The Eye of the Hurricane - 5:57
3. Little One - 8:43
Page 2
4. Survival of the Fittest - 9:59
5. Dolphin Dance - 9:16 am

literature

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Michael Cuscuna, The Blue Note Years, p. 98
  2. ↑ cf. Cuscuna, The Blue Note Years, p. 99.
  3. ↑ cf. Blumenthal.
  4. ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on allmusic.com (accessed June 13, 2018)
  5. ↑ Review by Greg Simmons on allaboutjazz.com (accessed June 13, 2018)
  6. ↑ Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List on tomhull.com (accessed June 13, 2018)
  7. ↑ cit. after Cook and Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz , 1995 edition
  8. ↑ This had recently left the Davis band and was replaced by Wayne Shorter.
  9. ↑ The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzwisemagazine.com
  10. ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  11. ↑ The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s on pitchfork.com (accessed June 13, 2018)