The Essential Herbie Hancock

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Watermelon Man
  7:11
  4.5 ★
• 2
  'Round Midnight
  4:05
• 3
  Cantaloupe Island
  5:33
  4.8 ★
• 4
  Maiden Voyage
  7:56
• 5
  Circle
  5:54
• 6
  The Sorcerer
  5:37
• 7
  Tell Me a Bedtime Story
  5:04
• 8
  Hidden Shadows
  10:15
• 9
  Chameleon
  15:40
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Joanna's Theme
  4:43
• CD 2
• 1
  Butterfly
  11:18
• 2
  People Music
  7:09
• 3
  Milestones
  6:39
• 4
  4 A.M.
  5:23
• 5
  Come Running to Me
  8:25
• 6
  Finger Painting
  6:45
• 7
  Stars in Your Eyes
  7:05
• 8
  Rockit
  5:27
  4.0 ★
• 9
  St. Louis Blues
  5:51
• 10
  Manhattan
  4:04

More by Herbie Hancock

Possibilities

Possibilities 2005

Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall

Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall 2002

Dis Is da Drum

Dis Is da Drum 1994

Mwandishi: Complete Warner Bros. Recordings

Mwandishi: Complete Warner Bros. Recordings 1994

Cantaloupe Island

Cantaloupe Island 1994

A Tribute to Miles

A Tribute to Miles 1994

Release credits

• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Alex Al
  bass [9]
• Alfred Lion
  producer [1, 3-4]
• Alphonse Mouzon
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Baba Duru
  tabla [5]
• Bennie Maupin
  alto flute [9], bass clarinet [1.9, 2.1], saxophone [1], soprano saxophone [9], tenor saxophone [9]
• Bill Laswell
  bass [8]
• Bill Summers
  agogô [9], balafon [9], bass [4], cabasa [9], congas [9], gankogui [9], percussion [2.1, 2.4-5, 1.9], shekere [9], surdo [9], tambourine [9], whistle [9]
• Billy Higgins
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Bobby Shew
  brass [5]
• Bruce Swedien
  mix [9]
• Bryan Bell
  engineer [7]
• Buster Williams
  bass [7]
• Butch Warren
  bass [1]
• DXT
  performer [8]
• Dave Jerden
  mix [8]
• Dave Riddles
  woodwind [5]
• David Rubinson
  mix [4], producer [2.1, 2.4, 2.7, 1.9]
• David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
  producer [5]
• Dexter Gordon
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Duke Pearson
  producer [6]
• Emily Van Valkenburgh
  strings [5]
• Ernie Watts
  woodwind [5]
• Fred Catero
  recording [1]
• Fred Jackson
  woodwind [5]
• Freddie Hubbard
  cornet [3], trumpet [1, 4]
• Freddie Washington
  bass [7]
• Garnett Brown
  brass [5]
• Gavin Christopher
  vocal [7]
• George Coleman
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Harvey Mason
  drums (drum set) [2.4, 1.9]
• Herbie Hancock
  Rhodes piano [9], arranger [1.7, 2.5, 2.9], clavinet [9], conductor [7], keyboard [7-8], organ [9], piano [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 2.7, 2.9], producer [2.1, 2.4-5, 2.7-8, 1.7, 1.9], synthesizer [9]
• Jack Nimitz
  woodwind [5]
• Jaco Pastorius
  bass [4]
• James Levi
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Jerry Dodgion
  alto flute [6]
• Joe Henderson
  tenor saxophone [7]
• Johnny Coles
  flugelhorn [7], trumpet [7]
• Lawrence Granger
  strings [5]
• Linda Wood
  strings [5]
• Martin Bisi
  recording [8]
• Material
  producer [8]
• Maurice Spears
  brass [5]
• Melvin “Wah Wah” Watson
  guitar [7]
• Michael Beinhorn
  keyboard [8]
• Michael Cuscuna
  task [3-4, 6]
• Mickey Roker
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Mike Clark
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Nathan Rubin
  strings [5]
• Paul Jackson
  bass [2.5, 1.9], electric bass guitar [1.9, 2.1], marímbula [9]
• Peter Phillips
  bass trombone [6]
• Raul Rekow
  congas [5]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  guitar [7]
• Robert O'Bryant, Sr.
  brass [5]
• Robert Sadin
  arranger [9], producer [9]
• Ron Carter
  bass [4], double bass [3, 6]
• Roy Malan
  strings [5]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [1, 3-4, 6-7]
• Sheila E.
  percussion [7]
• Stevie Wonder
  arranger [9], guest [9], harmonica [9]
• Teressa Adams
  strings [5]
• Terri Lyne Carrington
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Thad Jones
  flugelhorn [6]
• Tony Williams
  drums (drum set) [3-4]
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Issues

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  The Essential Herbie Hancock

  2x CD
  28 February 2006