VSOP (album)
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| Herbie Hancock's live album | ||||
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Publication |
1976 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
9 original LP |
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running time |
86:35 |
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Henry Renauld |
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Studio (s) |
Live at the Newport Jazz Festival - New York City Center - New York on June 28, 1976 |
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VSOP is a jazz-funk album by Herbie Hancock , recorded live at the Newport Festival in 1976 and released on Columbia in 1977.
background
The concert was planned by George Wein and took place on June 29, 1976 in New York as part of the Newport Jazz Festival . The concert was titled Retrospective of The Music of Herbie Hancock , but can also be seen as an homage to Miles Davis , as many of the musicians involved had played with Davis. Davis was unable to participate due to health problems. Miles is said to have responded to Hancock's request: How do you think that would be, to be a sideman for one of my sidemen? That'd be a little funny .
The concert was recorded in three different formations. Hancock, Hubbard, Shorter, Carter and Tony Williams (the band VSOP ) play on the first four tracks . Pieces 5 and 7 (No. 6 is the introduction of the musicians) was recorded in the line-up of the band Mwandishi . The reference to Africa became evident through the naming of the band members, as all of them took pseudonyms from the Swahili language : Mwandishi / Herbie Hancock, Mchezaji / Buster Williams, Jabali / Billy Hart, Mganga / Eddie Henderson, Mwile / Bennie Maupin and Pepo Mtoto / Julian priest. The last two tracks have Hancock, Maupin, Parker Jr., Wah Wah Watson, Jackson, Levi and Nash (the band The Headhunters ).
The first band, the VSOP Quintet, played the pieces Maiden Voyage , with which Hancock became famous, and Nefertiti von Shorter, which Davis recorded on the album of the same name, almost with the original line-up of the Miles Davis Quintet. In contrast to the original line-up, Hancock plays an electric piano and Davis has been replaced by Hubbard.
The second line-up, Mwandishi , played two pieces by Hancock, Toys with a delicate trumpet from Henderson, and You'll Know When You Get There .
The third band, The Headhunters (presented live as The Herbie Hancock Group ), played two funk-heavy pieces by Hancock, Jackson and Melvin Wah Wah Watson Ragin, Hang up your hang ups and Spider . Hang up your hang ups begins with the introduction of the individual band members by Hancock, who gradually join the piece with their instruments.
With titles like “Hang Up Your Hang Ups”, the album continues the path taken by Hancock in 1974 with the album “Head Hunters” from jazz to funk, which culminated in 1983 with the world hit “Rockit”.
On the other hand, the album showed that there was again an increased demand for acoustic jazz in the mid-seventies, as the second Miles Davis quintet had played in the sixties before the start of the fusion wave.
Track list
- Piano Introduction - 4:32
- Maiden Voyage (Hancock) - 13:18
- Nefertiti (Shorter) - 5:17
- Introduction of Players / Eye of the Hurricane (Hancock) - 18:35
- Toys (Hancock) - 14:00
- Introductions - 1:47
- You'll Know When You Get There (Hancock) - 7:00
- Hang Up Your Hang Ups (Hancock, Jackson, Ragin) - 11:54
- Spider (Hancock, Jackson, Ragin) -10: 12
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of The Herbie Hancock Box at Jazzitude ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2008 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.
- ↑ Davis expresses something different in his autobiography, Campe Paperback, 1995, p. 472: too many problems would arise if they (meaning: Hancock, Carter, Shorter) suddenly became accompanists .
