1 + 1 (album)

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1 + 1
Studio album by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter
Released	1997-01-01
Genre	Post-bop Free improvisation
Length	61:35
Label	Verve Records Polygram Records
Producer	Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock
Professional reviews
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Herbie Hancock chronology
The New Standard (1995) 1 + 1 (1997) Gershwin's World (1998)
Wayne Shorter chronology
High Life (1995) 1 + 1 (1997) Footprints Live (2002)

1 + 1 is a duet album by Herbie Hancock (piano) and Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), featuring the two artists without accompaniment.

Hancock and Shorter perform ten songs on the album, including the Grammy award winning song "Aung San Suu Kyi", named after the Burmese pro-democracy activist of the same name, and "Joanna's Theme" which originally was on Hancock's original soundtrack to the film Death Wish. It is Hancock's forty-first album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Meridianne - A Wood Sylph"
2. "Aung San Suu Kyi"
3. "Sonrisa"
4. "Memory Of Enchantment"
5. "Visitor From Nowhere"
6. "Joanna's Theme"
7. "Diana"
8. "Visitor From Somewhere"
9. "Manhattan Lorelei"
10. "Hale Bopp, Hip-Hop"

[edit] Personnel

• Herbie Hancock - piano, producer
• Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone, producer