Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island [Recorded 1962-1965] (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 308 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 100 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (CDP 7243 8 29331 2 0)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 308 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 100 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (CDP 7243 8 29331 2 0)
A mini-retrospective of Herbie Hancock's early years as a jazz artist, this six-track CD touches on some of his best-known small-ensemble works from that period. Of his first five albums for Blue Note Records from 1963-1965, Takin' Off, My Point of View, Empyrean Isles, and Maiden Voyage are represented - his third and perhaps most individually realized LP, Inventions & Dimensions, is not. You get hits "Canteloupe Island," "Watermelon Man," "Maiden Voyage," and three lesser titles, which remove it from "best-of" status. His sixth and seventh full-length Blue Note recordings, The Prisoner and Speak Like a Child, are also omitted. This is a decent, edited, and concise, but far from comprehensive view of Hancock's salad days, which some purport might still be his best.