Takin' Off
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1962 studio album by Herbie Hancock
| Takin' Off | |
|---|---|
| Studio album by | |
| Released | October 1962[1] |
| Recorded | May 28, 1962 |
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs |
| Genre | Soul jazz, hard bop [2] |
| Length | 39:01 |
| Label | Blue Note |
| Producer | Alfred Lion |
| Herbie Hancock chronology | |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [3] |
| Down Beat | [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [5] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
Takin' Off is the debut album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock released in 1962[7] by Blue Note Records. The album features veteran tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins. The album is a creative example of music in the hard bop idiom.[8] The bluesy track "Watermelon Man" made it to the Top 100 of the singles charts,[8] and went on to become a jazz standard. Hancock released a funk arrangement of "Watermelon Man" on his 1973 album Head Hunters . Takin' Off was initially released on CD in 1996 and then again in remastered form in 2007 by Rudy Van Gelder.
Track listing
[edit ]All compositions by Herbie Hancock.
Side one
- "Watermelon Man" – 7:09
- "Three Bags Full" – 5:27
- "Empty Pockets" – 6:09
Side two
- "The Maze" – 6:45
- "Driftin'" – 6:58
- "Alone and I" – 6:25
Bonus tracks on CD reissue
- "Watermelon Man" (alternate take) – 6:33
- "Three Bags Full" (alternate take) – 5:31
- "Empty Pockets" (alternate take) – 6:27
Personnel
[edit ]- Herbie Hancock – piano
- Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
- Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone
- Butch Warren – double bass
- Billy Higgins – drums
References
[edit ]- ^ Billboard Oct 22, 1962
- ^ Martin, Henry (2004). Essential Jazz: The First 100 Years. Cengage Learning. p. 243. ISBN 1111794278 . Retrieved October 5, 2013.
...Takin' Off was a typical hard bop LP...
- ^ Huey, Steve (2011). "Takin' Off - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Down Beat: January 17, 1963 vol. 30, no. 2
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 93. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 640. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Album".
- ^ a b Martin, Henry; & Waters, Keith (2005). Jazz: The First 100 Years. Thomas Wadsworth. p. 311. ISBN 0-534-62804-4