Herbie Hancock - Then And Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock (2008) CD Rip

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Title: Then And Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: Verve Records [B0011763-02]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 78:02
Total Size: 467 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. Maiden Voyage (7:55)
02. Cantaloupe Island (5:28)
03. Wiggle Waggle (5:50)
04. Chameleon (Edit) (7:41)
05. St. Louis Blues (with special guest Stevie Wonder) (5:52)
06. Chan's Song (Never Said) (4:17)
07. River (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae) (5:26)
08. Don't Explain (feat. Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan) (4:53)
09. All Apologies (5:07)
10. Watermelon Man (6:28)
11. Rockit (Live) (4:11)
12. River (Live) (feat. Joni Mitchell) (5:39)
13. Maiden Voyage (Live) (9:15)
Herbie Hancock - Then And Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock (2008) CD Rip

The idea of collecting tracks off several of jazz legend Herbie Hancock's albums from the influential '60s Blue Note years through to his Grammy-winning 2007 album River is a nice idea that doesn't quite come together on Verve's Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock. Obviously designed to showcase the whole of Hancock's career post his 2007 Grammy win for River: The Joni Letters, Then and Now doesn't really give you the full picture. With only five tracks devoted to his '60s/'70s recordings (arguably his most essential and defining period), there's just not enough "then" here to really qualify this as a "definitive" collection. Not to mention that Then and Now basically ignores Hancock's '70s recordings, opting for merely an "edit" of "Chameleon" and the album version of "Watermelon Man," which comes out of chronological order near the end of the collection. Add in that you only get a live version of "Rockit" and you're left with less a definitive view of Hancock's career and more of a thumbnail sketch.~Matt Collar