Vinyl Me Please Classics

Yeah considering the thought of what we might have been getting when Storf first hinted about a HH album earlier in the year and the reality of this. I'll keep it but it would've been nice if it was a Blue Note release though maybe all of those have been done with the BN80s.
 
Re Mr. Hands. I have a crate full of stuff from this era that I can't bring myself to listen to anymore. Stanley Clarke, Al Dimeola, David Sanborn etc., etc.. Just not my thing. My hell would be an endless "Smooth Jazz" Cruise. With faulty plumbing and widespread food poisoning.
 
Ghost said:
I still can’t believe this is the Herbie Hancock album we’re getting.
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Mmmmm I know what you mean. Even I’m shocked myself but I think it is a great album still! I’ve got a few high quality reissues of Herbie Hancock albums (Analogue Productions 200g pressing of Head Hunters, 45RPM Analogue Productions Of Voyage Maiden and Speakers Corner 180g reissue Of Crossings).

I would’ve really of liked Thrust of Man-Child to have been the Classics ROTM, but am still happy we getting Mr. Hands. I actually really enjoy the music on that one, even though it isn’t as good as a lot of his earlier titles.

Like I’m happy I’ll be having a more diverse, high-quality vinyl range of Herbie Hancock! That Blue Note 75 reissue of Voyage Maiden was horrendous, was happy to replace that one!
 
NathanRicaud said:
Mmmmm I know what you mean. Even I’m shocked myself but I think it is a great album still! I’ve got a few high quality reissues of Herbie Hancock albums (Analogue Productions 200g pressing of Head Hunters, 45RPM Analogue Productions Of Voyage Maiden and Speakers Corner 180g reissue Of Crossings).

I would’ve really of liked Thrust of Man-Child to have been the Classics ROTM, but am still happy we getting Mr. Hands. I actually really enjoy the music on that one, even though it isn’t as good as a lot of his earlier titles.

Like I’m happy I’ll be having a more diverse, high-quality vinyl range of Herbie Hancock! That Blue Note 75 reissue of Voyage Maiden was horrendous, was happy to replace that one!
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I can just see your life as a photocopier repair man being soundtracked by 80s smooth jazz...
 
Ear Wax said:
Re Mr. Hands. I have a crate full of stuff from this era that I can't bring myself to listen to anymore. Stanley Clarke, Al Dimeola, David Sanborn etc., etc.. Just not my thing. My hell would be an endless "Smooth Jazz" Cruise. With faulty plumbing and widespread food poisoning.
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Agree although Di Meola's Casino is an exception for me. Although I don't spin it, I stream it.
 
Ear Wax said:
Yeah I shouldn’t paint with such a broad brush. The trio album Friday Night in San Francisco is some Al Dimeola I love.
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+Elegant Gypsy, Tour De Force Live
+the first Stanley Clarke record on Nemperor

Plenty of other solid fusion from the era (Tony Williams with my guy Allan) is another.

But yes, disco fusion is terrible. Why not Sextant, damnit. My copy is well loved and I would have been a fan of a crispy new RKS remaster.
 
mdmost said:
I'm in as a completionist but 80s era jazz is one of my least favorite periods of Jazz.
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I discovered Jazz in this era so it is pretty important to me. It is a very easy era to brush aside, or so say the internets with their revision (I certainly remember a time when 70s Jazz was a time when jazz was considered dead but one look at Instagram seems to counter this), but it's an unfortunate myth. There are a ton of fabulous records from this era (like the 90s, 00's).
 
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