Herbie Hancock -the Mwandishi trilogy - Progressive Rock Music Forum

mwandishi by far...

parts of crossings i like...but sextant is a bit to indigestable for me at this point...i like my jazz jazzy lol

Prog in the projeKcts...

Easy Money wrote:

Rocktopus wrote:

Syzygy wrote:

It's a tough call, but Crossings gets my vote, and not just because I share my surname with the synth player. It's a pity Herbie Hancock didn't do a bit more in the same exerimental vein.

You'll find him doing it some more on Eddie Henderson's fantastic Realizations and to some extent the follow up Inside Out. Its got practically the whole Mwandishi lineup including HH himself.Crossings for me. Desert island album.

Bennie Maupin and Julian Priester also put out albums with Gleeson and many of the others on board.

Anotherthing that makes the Mwandishi music so relevant with Bitches Brew is Maupin's bass clarinets laying foundation layers od wind instruments. That gives such a depth to the rest of the music.

You'll clearly hear Zappa working with this thing in Grand Wazoo and Jawaka

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 for me. Special album...it's the first one I heard of the three.

Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.

Truthfully, if there weren't easy out options and we absolutely had to choose one of the three, I would have gone Mwandishi. Ostinatio (Suite for Angela) is fantastic! It's the only song out of the nine that I can recognize and somewhat digest at this point. Hm. It'll take more work, but that's okay.

^Yep. Both great too. Love, Love doesn't feature Herbie, though. And if that one Bennie's The Jewel in the Lotus makes you hungy for more, check out Buster Williams somewhat related Pinnacle. Not as fantastic, but really good.

Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me

Syzygy wrote:

It's a tough call, but Crossings gets my vote, and not just because I share my surname with the synth player. It's a pity Herbie Hancock didn't do a bit more in the same exerimental vein.

Yeah, but for some reasond HH chooses to do electronics himself, and its's a lot more prominent and Kraut-y" than when Gleeson was doing it.

Rocktopus wrote:

You'll find him doing it some more on Eddie Henderson's fantastic Realizations and to some extent the follow up Inside Out. Its got practically the whole Mwandishi lineup including HH himself.

Thanks for the cue, Christer.

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

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"

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

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

I'll try not to.

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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