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Herbie Hancock – Quartet (1982/2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Quartet is the thirty-fourth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, his first with the V.S.O.P. Quartet without Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter. It was originally issued in Japan on CBS/Sony, and later given a US release by Columbia.

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Herbie Hancock – Perfect Machine (1988/2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:53 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Perfect Machine is the thirty-seventh album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and the last with the Rockit Band. Perfect Machine was also Hancock’s final album for Columbia Records and is considered the least popular of the three Rockit band albums.

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Herbie Hancock – My Point Of View (1963/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:30 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

My Point of View is Herbie Hancock’s sophomore album, originally released in 1963 on Blue Note Records. The album followed his successful debut album Takin’ Off and helped solidify his position in the jazz world. Hancock wrote the piece “Blind Man, Blind Man” after an experience where he encountered a blind man playing his guitar on the corner of his Chicago neighborhood.

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Herbie Hancock – Mwandishi (1971/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:04 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Mwandishi is one of the first albums on which Herbie Hancock departs from the traditional jazz idioms and pursues a new original style that would generate a wider audience appeal, most notably manifested in his 1973 album Head Hunters. Mwandishi was produced by David Rubinson.

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Herbie Hancock – Mr. Hands (1980/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:57 minutes | 845 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Contemporary Jazz Masters

Recorded in 1980 at The Automatt (#1-2, 4, 6), (San Francisco); Filmways/Heider Recording (#5), (San Francisco); The Village Recorder (#3), (Los Angeles).

Mr. Hands was originally released in 1980 and is Herbie Hancock’s thirtieth album. It was one of the last albums on which Hancock played more “straight” electric jazz before moving on to focus more on R&B influences. The track “4 A.M.” features the late great bassist Jaco Pastorius.

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Herbie Hancock – Monster (Expanded Edition) (1980/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:31 minutes | 2,73 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1980 album including nine bonus tracks. Monster is the 29th album by pianist Hancock. As a follow-up to the Feets album, it avoided jazz and funk in favor of disco. Includes musical assistance from Carlos Santana, Freddie Washington, Sheila E, Bill Champlin and many others.

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Herbie Hancock – Monster (1980/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:12 minutes | 893 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Despite the PR hype about this being Herbie Hancock’s first “rock” album, Monster is really another disco album, though more varied in texture, somewhat more subtle in execution, and blessedly rid of those vocoder vocals, though not of the real ones. “Saturday Night,” despite the distinctive presence of Carlos Santana, sets the album’s dancefloor tone. The rock element is supposedly supplied by Hancock on the newly-developed Clavitar, where, try as he might to articulate like a guitarist, the sound is still that of a mutated synthesizer. Alphonze Mouzon is wasted on drums, and guitarist Wah Wah Watson has a field day on his eponymous specialty. Most annoying (and defining) track — “Go for It.” –Richard S. Ginell

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Herbie Hancock – Man-Child (1975/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:20 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Released in 1975, Man-Child is one of Herbie Hancock’s most funk-influenced albums. It was produced by David Rubinson and Herbie Hancock, and was the final album featuring the core group of the Headhunters (Paul Jackson, Bill Summers, Harvey Mason, Bennie Maupin, and Mike Clark).

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Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (1965/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

“In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable transparency and depth. It now sounds like you’ve set up your chaise lounge right in the middle of Rudy Van Gelder’s studio!” – Blue Note President, Don Was.

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Herbie Hancock – Lite Me Up (1982/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:02 minutes | 828 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Lite Me Up is Herbie Hancock’s 33rd album and was originally released in 1982. A fusion of jazz and pop, the album is full of wonderful tunes.

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Herbie Hancock – Inventions & Dimensions (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:56 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Cover art included, liner notes not included

Masterd by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.

Herbie Hancock was only 23 when he recorded the amazing Inventions & Dimensions, his third Blue Note album. Although Hancock had already recorded Takin’ Off and My Point Of View, he had quickly developed his own innovative style, and was about to become a member of the Miles Davis Quintet. Inventions and Dimensions is unlike anything he had previously created.

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Herbie Hancock – Headhunters (1973/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:45 minutes | 846 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Headhunters is a monumental release in Herbie Hancock’s career and a defining moment in jazz-funk. It reached #1 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums and #2 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums. This is one of the most endearing works in the jazz/funk legacy. In 2007, Headhunters was inducted into the National Recording Registry and is included on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

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Herbie Hancock – Gershwin’s World (1998/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve

(1998) Herbie Hancock’s 40-year career as a recording artist is graced by a series of astonishing musical landmarks.  Few other musicians of the 20th century have exhibited the wide range of interests and mastery of various genres that this jazz legend has brought to his remarkable body of work.  Nonetheless, at the age of 58, Hancock still expresses the kinds of irrepressible curiosity and restless creativity that keep him pushing at the boundaries of modern music.

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Herbie Hancock – Future Shock (1983/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:17 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

“Future Shock” is pianist Herbie Hancock’s thirty-fifth album and a million-selling Platinum-certified disc. It was Hancock’s first release from his electro-funk era and an early example of instrumental hip hop. Much of the album was initially composed by the team of avant-garde bassist and record producer Bill Laswell, and keyboardist and producer Michael Beinhorn, and played on tour by their group Material in 1982.

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Herbie Hancock – Flood (1975/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:09 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Originally released only in Japan, Flood is a classic jazz/funk album. Herbie Hancock’s eighteenth album features songs from previous albums Thrust, Head Hunters, and Man-Child.

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