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Empyrean Isles

Herbie Hancock · 1964 · Blue Note

Tracks

Cantaloupe Island

Empyrean Isles · 1964

Personnel

Herbie Hancock

leader · Piano

Freddie Hubbard

played Trumpet / Cornet on this album

Hubbard played cornet rather than trumpet on this session, and his rounder tone blends into Hancock's cosmic arrangements. The warm timbre is especially effective on "Cantaloupe Island," which would become a standard.

Ron Carter

played Double Bass on this album

Tony Williams

played Drums on this album

Empyrean IslesEmpyrean IslesHerbie Hancock · 1964 (1964) was Herbie HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック's fourth Blue Note album, made at 25. Its "Cantaloupe Island" later became the basis for US3's sampling hit, spreading the tune well beyond the jazz canon.

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Freddie HubbardFreddie Hubbardフレディ・ハバード was the sole horn on Herbie HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック's masterpieces Empyrean IslesEmpyrean IslesHerbie Hancock · 1964 (1964) and Maiden VoyageMaiden VoyageHerbie Hancock · 1965 (1965). His piercing tone and lyrical solos became signatures of Hancock's modal work.

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Freddie Hubbard, the lyrical hard-bop trumpeter of Hub-Tones, also turns up on Ascension, the 1965 wall-of-sound free-jazz session. The tidy melodist standing inside the most extreme date of the era is the surprise.

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