Herbie Hancock - Quartet (1981) {2009 Japan Blu-spec Remaster}

Herbie Hancock - Quartet (1981) {2009 Japan Blu-spec Remaster}

EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 471 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 164 Mb

Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 86 Mb | 5% repair rar

© 2009 Columbia / Sony Music Japan | SICP 20120

Jazz / Bop / Post Bop / Piano

Reissue features the high-fidelity Blu-spec CD format (compatible with standard CD players). This is an extremely symbolic album, for Herbie Hancock and the V.S.O.P. rhythm section essentially pass the torch of the '80s acoustic jazz revival to the younger generation, as personified by then 19-year-old Wynton Marsalis. Recorded during a break on a tour of Japan, a month before Marsalis made his first Columbia album, the technically fearless teenaged trumpeter mostly plays the eager student, imitating Miles, Freddie Hubbard, and Clifford Brown, obviously relishing the challenge of keeping up with his world-class cohorts. Things start out conventionally enough with a couple of Monk standards, and then they progress into the mid-'60s Miles Davis post-bop zone, with Ron Carter and Tony Williams driving Marsalis and Hancock relentlessly forward. Several staples from the Miles/V.S.O.P. repertoire turn up ("The Eye of the Hurricane," "The Sorcerer," "Pee Wee"), and there is one wistful ballad, "I Fall in Love Too Easily," where Marsalis sounds a bit callow, not yet the master colorist. Hancock remains a complex, stimulating acoustic pianist, the years of disco having taken no toll whatsoever on his musicianship. This looked like it would be a Japan-only release, but since the buzz on Marsalis was so loud, CBS put it out in the U.S. in 1982, fanning the flames even more. Personnel: Herbie Hancock - Piano Wynton Marsalis - Trumpet Ron Carter - Bass Tony Williams - Drums Recorded At CBS Sony Studios Shinanomachi, Tokyo, Japan July 28, 1981 tracklist: 01. Well You Needn't 02. 'Round Midnight 03. Clear Ways 04. A Quick Sketch 05. The Eye Of The Hurricane 06. Parade 07. The Sorcerer 08. Pee Wee 09. I Fall In Love Too Easily