Herbie Hancock -the Mwandishi trilogy - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Such excellent stuff that I've been listening to a lot of late..

"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).

Evan wrote:

Call me strange, but my love for Herbie begins and ends at Headhunters. I'll have to give these discs another spin.

...that's about where I get off LOL

I voted for Crossings, with Mwandishi close behind. Approve

Nice poll, Logan! Thumbs Up

Crossings and Sextant are really almost at the same level. But I pick up Sextant a little bit over

Crossings.

Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira

- Paul Éluard

I loved Headhunters, and so dived right into this trilogy. Being a Davis and Coltrane fan, these three were distinctly quite a bit more difficult to digest. I don't feel like I have a handle on any of them, really. So I'm voting the can't decide option, wuss that I am. But you know what? I'll put them all on now.

hugely influential stuff, practically reinvented modern jazz and American film music.. Crossings for me, five stars easy

I'll be the first brave one to choose the "don't know any of them" option. I have Headhunters and Thrust and have been planning on getting into more Herbie material, with these three on the list.

I'll try not to.

Logan wrote:

It's difficult for me to choose one. Amazing.

I hope this poll will encourage some who may not yet have caught the Herbie lovebug to check out these albums. I don't care if one is into melodic prog, or whatever, check it out.

I'm a little sad that it took me so long to really explore Herbie Hancock's work (in my progressive journey, I always lag well behind others -- after years of mostly leaving music behind due to to a dominant passion for film , I had a heck of a lot of catching up to do).

I love the Mwandishi trilogy above all in Herbie's career.

Although Herbie is the only absent of the "Miles Crowd" on Bitches Brew (he was on his honeymoon); the Mwandishi period is IMHO what comes closest to BB and a direct heriage of it.

It's pretty hard to pick one from the three, though..........

LiquidEternity wrote:

I loved Headhunters, and so dived right into this trilogy. Being a Davis and Coltrane fan, these three were distinctly quite a bit more difficult to digest. I don't feel like I have a handle on any of them, really. So I'm voting the can't decide option, wuss that I am. But you know what? I'll put them all on now.

The Head Hunters years are quite different and could be classified as funk-jazz.

Personally I find the HH's HH too static: find a groove and stick to it

As opposed to the constantly evolving Mwandishi albums

I'll go for Sextant, I guess

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Sextant followed by Crossings.In a way i wished he'd kept following the same path for a couple of more albums because for my tastes they kept getting better.

"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN

All I have is Headhunters. Great funk-jazz. He was stellar with Miles Davis, but that was many years before.

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Poll Question: WHich of these is your favourite?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Mwandishi	2	[8.33%]
Crossings	8	[33.33%]
Sextant	8	[33.33%]
know them and can't choose between them	1	[4.17%]
can't choose cause I don't know all of them	2	[8.33%]
don't know any of them	3	[12.50%]
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