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Product Identifiers

Record LabelBlun, Blue Note Records

UPC0094639275724

eBay Product ID (ePID)27046028621

Product Key Features

Release Year2007

FormatCD

GenreSoul-Jazz & Boogaloo

ArtistHancock, Herbie

Release TitleTakin Off

Dimensions

Item Height0.38 in

Item Weight0.22 lb

Item Length5.68 in

Item Width5.05 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks9

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Watermelon Man 1.2 Three Bags Full 1.3 Empty Pockets 1.4 The Maze 1.5 Driftin' 1.6 Alone and I 1.7 Watermelon Man (Alternate Take) 1.8 Three Bags Full (Alternate Take) 1.9 Empty Pockets (Alternate Take)

NotesIn some respects Herbie Hancock's first recording as a leader typifies the hard-bop/funk of many late-'50s/early-'60s Blue Note productions (notably Horace Silver's tight-knit group). At the same time, Hancock's lyrical bent and pliable point toward the greater abstraction and open-ended, chamber dimensions to come. Blue Note's splendid remastering brings the underrated bassist Butch Warren's bedrock sonority into focus, while Dexter Gordon's laconic virility meshes surprisingly well with the pianist's quicksilver palette. And for those who want to hear the original, unadulterated version of Hancock's earliest signature composition "Watermelon Man," look no further. The disc is rounded out by additional, previously unissued alternate takes.