The Essential Herbie Hancock

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The Essential Herbie Hancock
The Essential Herbie Hancock cover
Compilation album by Herbie Hancock
Released 2006
Recorded 1962 - 1998
Genre Jazz, Jazz fusion, R&B, Acid Jazz
Label Columbia Records
Herbie Hancock chronology
Possibilities
(2005)		 The Essential Herbie Hancock
(2006)		 River: The Joni Letters
(2007)

The Essential Herbie Hancock is the forty-sixth album by American jazz musician and pianist Herbie Hancock. It is part of Sony BMG's The Essential series. Unlike the box set The Herbie Hancock Box, this is the first 2-disc compilation of all of Hancock's music on the various recording labels that Hancock was on.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc One

  1. "Watermelon Man"
  2. "'Round Midnight"
  3. "Cantaloupe Island"
  4. "Maiden Voyage"
  5. "Circle"
  6. "The Sorcerer"
  7. "Tell Me a Bedtime Story"
  8. "Hidden Shadows"
  9. "Chameleon"
  10. "Joanna's Theme"

[edit] Disc Two

  1. "Butterfly"
  2. "People Music"
  3. "Milestones"
  4. "4 AM"
  5. "Come Running To Me"
  6. "Finger Painting"
  7. "Stars In Your Eyes"
  8. "Rockit"
  9. "St. Louis Blues"
  10. "Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love)"