Herbie Hancock - Three Bags Full '2021

Artist	Herbie Hancock Related artists
Album name	Three Bags Full
Country
Date	2021
Genre	Jazz
Play time	39:11
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	259 MB
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Watermelon Man
02. Three Bags Full
03. Empty Pockets
04. Driftin
05. The Maze
06. Alone and I


Â Read MoreTakin OffHaving taken up the piano at age seven, Hancock quickly
became known as a prodigy, soloing in the first movement of a Mozart piano
concerto with the Chicago Symphony at the age of 11. After studies at Grinnell
College, Hancock was invited by Donald Byrd in 1961 to join his group in New
York City, and before long, Blue Note offered him a solo contract. His debut
album, Takin Off, took off after Mongo Santamaria covered one of the albums
songs, Watermelon Man. In May 1963, Miles Davis asked him to join his band in
time for the Seven Steps to Heaven sessions, and he remained with him for five
years, greatly influencing Davis evolving direction, loosening up his own style,
and, upon Davis suggestion, converting to the Rhodes electric piano. During that
time, Hancocks solo career blossomed on Blue Note, as he poured forth
increasingly sophisticated compositions like Maiden Voyage, Cantaloupe Island,
Goodbye to Childhood, and the exquisite Speak Like a Child. He also played on
many East Coast recording sessions for producer Creed Taylor and provided a
groundbreaking score to Michelangelo Antonionis film Blow-Up, which gradually
led to further movie assignments.

Fat Albert RotundaHaving left the Davis band in 1968, Hancock recorded an
elegant funk album, Fat Albert Rotunda, and in 1969 formed a sextet that evolved
into one of the most exciting, forward-looking jazz-rock groups of the era. By
then deeply immersed in electronics, Hancock added Patrick Gleesons synthesizer
to his Echoplexed, fuzz-wah-pedaled electric piano and clavinet, and the
recordings became spacier and more complex rhythmically and structurally,
creating their own corner of the avant-garde. By 1970, all of the musicians used
both English and African names (Herbies was Mwandishi). Alas, Hancock had to
break up the band in 1973 when it ran out of money, and having studied Buddhism,
he concluded that his ultimate goal should be to make his audiences happy.

Head HuntersThe next step, then, was a terrific funk group whose first album,
Head Hunters, with its Sly Stone-influenced hit single, Chameleon, became the
biggest-selling jazz LP up to that time. Handling all of the synthesizers
himself, Hancocks heavily rhythmic comping often became part of the rhythm
section, leavened by interludes of the old urbane harmonies. Hancock recorded
several electric albums of mostly superior quality in the 70s, followed by a
turn into disco around the decades end. In the meantime, Hancock refused to
abandon acoustic jazz. After a one-shot reunion of the 1965 Miles Davis Quintet
(Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, and Freddie Hubbard sitting
in for Miles) at New Yorks 1976 Newport Jazz Festival, they went on tour the
following year as V.S.O.P. The near-universal acclaim of the reunions proved
that Hancock was still a whale of a pianist; that Miles loose mid-60s post-bop
direction was far from spent; and that the time for a neo-traditional revival
was near, finally bearing fruit in the 80s with Wynton Marsalis and his ilk.
V.S.O.P. continued to hold sporadic reunions through 1992, though the death of
the indispensable Williams in 1997 cast much doubt as to whether these
gatherings would continue.

Jazz AfricaHancock continued his chameleonic ways in the 80s: scoring an MTV hit
in 1983 with the scratch-driven, electro-influenced single Rockit (accompanied
by a striking video); launching an exciting partnership with Gambian kora
virtuoso Foday Musa Suso that culminated in the swinging 1986 live album Jazz
Africa; doing film scores, and playing festivals and tours with the Marsalis
brothers, George Benson, Michael Brecker, and many others. After his 1988
techno-pop album, Perfect Machine, Hancock left Columbia (his label since 1973),
signed a contract with Qwest that came to virtually nothing (save for A Tribute
to Miles in 1992), and finally made a deal with Polygram in 1994 to record jazz
for Verve and release pop albums on Mercury.

Gershwins WorldWell into a youthful middle age, Hancocks curiosity, versatility,
and capacity for growth showed no signs of fading, and in 1998 he issued
Gershwins World. His curiosity with the fusion of electronic music and jazz
continued with 2001s Future 2 Future, but he also continued to explore the
future of straight-ahead contemporary jazz with 2005s Possibilities. An
intriguing album of jazz treatments of Joni Mitchell compositions called River:
The Joni Letters was released in 2007 and won a Grammy for Album of the Year in
2008. Two years later, Hancock released his The Imagine Project album, recorded
in seven countries with a host of collaborators including Dave Matthews, Juanes,
and Wayne Shorter. He was also named Creative Chair for the New Los Angeles
Philharmonic. In 2013, he was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honors award,
acknowledged for his contribution to American performing arts. An expanded tenth
anniversary edition of River: The Joni Letters was released in 2017, and he
continues to perform regularly. ~ Richard S. Ginell