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Like with Directstep one year before, this album was recorded in Japan. It was one of Hancock's most successful albums in Japan, perhaps because it was entirely solo piano.
This album was initially released in Japan, but made a release to the United States, 25 years after its initial release. In 2004, the album was released in the USA with bonus tracks, making it the only one of his Japanese releases available in the USA.
"My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 7:41
"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 3:20
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) - 4:37
"Harvest Time" (Hancock) - 4:47
"Sonrisa" (Hancock) - 3:44 午夜夢迴
"Manhattan Island" (Hancock) - 3:56
"Blue Otani" (Hancock) - 3:24
"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 3:20
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) - 4:37
"Harvest Time" (Hancock) - 4:47
"Sonrisa" (Hancock) - 3:44 午夜夢迴
"Manhattan Island" (Hancock) - 3:56
"Blue Otani" (Hancock) - 3:24
Bonus tracks on 2004 rerelease
"My Funny Valentine" (alternate) - 6:07
"On Green Dolphin Street" (alternate) - 4:01
"Someday My Prince Will Come" (alternate) - 5:13
"Harvest Time" (alternate) - 5:15
Personnel[edit]
- Herbie Hancock – keyboards, piano, synthesizer, vocals
Recording credits[edit]
- Akira Aimi – photography
- Fred Catero – engineer, mixing
- Yasohachi "88" Itoh – production coordination
- Kazumi Kurigami – cover photo
- Keiichi Nakamura – production coordination
- Yusaku Nakanishi – art direction
- David Rubinson – producer
- Mikio Takamatsu – mastering
Recorded after the funky fusion of Head Hunters, Thrust, Sextant, and other electric albums, and before the dawn of "Rockit" and more commercially viable and hip-hop-oriented material, Herbie Hancock took time out in 1978 to touch base again with his piano. Recorded completely solo, this set was issued only in Japan as the truly awful Feets, Don't Fail Me Now was issued stateside. LOL XD
They embody notions of classical music à la Anton Webern, blues, Erroll Garner's lyrical phrasing, and Bill Evans' harmonic sensibilities. They are, in sum, inseparable from one another and are usually performed as a suite.
雜記:
錄完Directstep 一星期後 在進東京錄音室錄這張
一樣使用了direct to disc技術
Direct to disc recording refers to sound recording methods which bypass the use of magnetic tape recording and record audio directly onto analog disc masters.
很難想像 在錄完這樣的專輯後 馬不停蹄地 再進錄音室錄paul jackson的放客專輯
Paul Jackson (born in 1947) is an American jazz bass guitarist and composer. He has played with many of the great jazz artists, most notably playing bass on several of Herbie Hancock's seminal albums, Head Hunters, Thrust, and others.
專輯試聽:
Something of a lost funk legend, Black Octopus was recorded by bassist Paul Jackson during a 1978 tour of Japan withHerbie Hancock's Headhunters, but didn't see an American release until more than two decades later. Augmented with four bonus tracks, the album lives up to the reputation it developed in exile, its blend of "Chameleon"-like fusion, disco, R&B, and spacy jazz driven by Jackson's fatback basslines into rare groove nirvana. Surprisingly, most of the originalBlack Octopus also features his vocals, which bear a marked resemblance to Slave's Steve Arrington. Jackson acquits himself well as a frontman,
Yet if Black Octopus' musical tentacles occasionally reach beyond their grasp, the overall result is still an essential for any savvy DJ or fusion fan.
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