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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724349533127 Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: April 20, 1999 Studio: Blue Note Records Sales Rank: 2588 MPN: 95331
Amazon.com essential recording: In the mid-'60s, a distinctive postbop style evolved among the younger musicians associated with Blue Note, a new synthesis that managed to blend the cool spaciousness of Miles Davis's modal period, some of the fire of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and touches of the avant-garde's group interaction. Maiden Voyage is a masterpiece of the school, with Hancock's enduring compositions like "Maiden Voyage" and "Dolphin Dance" mingling creative tension and calm repose with strong melodies and airy, suspended harmonies that give form to his evocative sea imagery. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was at a creative peak, stretching his extraordinary technique to the limits in search of a Coltrane-like fluency on the heated "Eye of the Storm," while the underrated tenor saxophonist George Coleman adds a developed lyricism to the session. --Stuart Broomer
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A time-tested masterpiece
This was the first Herbie Hancock recording I purchased after The Essential Herbie Hancock. I love everything Blue Note and Rudy Van Gelder, and since I was working on learning the title track, I decided ... Read More
Rating: - Great jazz album
Great jazz album from the '60s. This one belongs high up in the pantheon of jazz albums that include Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, John Coltrane's Blue Train, and Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter. If you feel ... Read More
Rating: - Good, but Empyrean Isles is so much better...
What we have here is an album that fails to live up to the standards that the first two and last tracks set. I'd rather hear Miles Davis' version of Little One found on E.S.P. - this one just plods along for ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic Voyage would be closer to the truth..
I feel the salty smell of the sea when I listen to this album.
My family and myself heard an interpretation of the title
track in a cafe, in a small town on the "Pacific Coast Frontier".
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Rating: - Review is simple GET IT!!
Why go to a lot of trouble to discuss in depth one of the greatest jazz albums ever crafted?
Well, let me just say:
If you consider yourself a Jazz Fan. . .then you NEED this album.
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- A time-tested masterpiece