Takin' Off
1962 studio album by Herbie Hancock
Takin' Off | ||||
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Studio album by Herbie Hancock | ||||
Released | October 1962[1] | |||
Recorded | May 28, 1962 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs | |||
Genre | Soul jazz, hard bop[2] | |||
Length | 39:01 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Herbie Hancock chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Down Beat | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [5] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
Takin' Off is the debut album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock released in 1962[7] by Blue Note Records. The album features veteran tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins. The album is a creative example of music in the hard bop idiom.[8] The bluesy track "Watermelon Man" made it to the Top 100 of the singles charts,[8] and went on to become a jazz standard. Hancock released a funk arrangement of “Watermelon Man” on his 1973 album Head Hunters. Takin' Off was initially released on CD in 1996 and then again in remastered form in 2007 by Rudy Van Gelder.
Track listing
All compositions by Herbie Hancock.
Side one
- "Watermelon Man" – 7:09
- "Three Bags Full" – 5:27
- "Empty Pockets" – 6:09
Side two
- "The Maze" – 6:45
- "Driftin'" – 6:58
- "Alone and I" – 6:25
Bonus tracks on CD reissue
- "Watermelon Man" (alternate take) – 6:33
- "Three Bags Full" (alternate take) – 5:31
- "Empty Pockets" (alternate take) – 6:27
Personnel
- Herbie Hancock – piano
- Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
- Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone
- Butch Warren – double bass
- Billy Higgins – drums
References
- ^ Billboard Oct 22, 1962
- ^ Martin, Henry (2004). Essential Jazz: The First 100 Years. Cengage Learning. p. 243. ISBN 1111794278. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
...Takin' Off was a typical hard bop LP...
- ^ Huey, Steve (2011). "Takin' Off - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Down Beat: January 17, 1963 vol. 30, no. 2
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 93. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 640. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Album".
- ^ a b Martin, Henry; & Waters, Keith (2005). Jazz: The First 100 Years. Thomas Wadsworth. p. 311. ISBN 0-534-62804-4
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