Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock

8.2	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Blue Note Records
Release date : 20 April 1999
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0724349533127
UPC : 724349533127

Jazz (3), Music Mecca 51 (1)

Description

In the mid-'60s, a distinctive postbop style evolved among the younger musicians associated with Blue Note, a new synthesis that managed to blend the cool spaciousness of Miles Davis's modal period, some of the fire of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and touches of the avant-garde's group interaction. Maiden Voyage is a masterpiece of the scho ... (more)

Performed by

Herbie Hancock

Track listing

1. Maiden Voyage
2. Eye Of The Hurricane
3. Little One
4. Survival Of The Fittest
5. Dolphin Dance

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Ratings of Maiden Voyage

8.2/10
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RJPinner

Maiden Voyage for sure

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at Jun 10 0:16

I believe this is Herbie's first recording as band leader and composer of his own stuff. The title track is the classic from this album and clearly one of his best ever. Maiden Voyage explores the modal harmony that he got from working with Miles and he has gone on to use that formula, perhaps ad nauseum. But this recording has the freshness of the early days without all the electronics.

Rating : 8/10

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Posted : 3 years, 11 months ago at Jan 19 11:19

1. Maiden Voyage
2. The Eye Of The Hurricane
3. Little One
4. Survival Of The Fittest
5. Dolphin Dance

Rating : 10/10