Herbie Hancock Complete Columbia Box

[JSngry]

13 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Finally on the verge of finishing my journey through this massive set (just listened to Future Shock, so four more albums to go). So much great music here, and I’m glad to have it all at hand now… but wow, the so-called “dance” albums from the late 1970s/early 80s are abysmally dull for the most part, as bad as conventional wisdom would have it. Unless coerced, I’ll never listen to Monster, Magic Windows, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now, or Lite Me Up ever again (probably same for Sunlight, in spite of its recent popularity with younger listeners and musicians). Mr. Hands otoh was an excellent surprise. It’s not that I mind commercial pop and disco from that era—it’s more that most of Herbie’s efforts in that direction sound so insipid and uninspired to me. Still a helluva set overall, though. 

What are some of your favorite Disco records?

[jazzbo]

I bought Sunlight when it was new and I dug it. Reminded me in ways of the George Duke Epic lps.

[JSngry]

Yeah, it's a mixed bag, but imo the good is very good.

Lite Me Up is one that I've had to reevaluate. It's not at all a "dance" record, it's a LA Pop record, i.e. a record made through the lens of all the things that were in the orb of the Porcaro brothers at that time. I know a guy who's at once a serious jazz pianist and a serious Porcaro brothers fan (hey...) and he swears by this record. 

Can't say that I like it any big lots more now, but having a different perspective like this..I think I appreciate it a lot more now than before.

 

[ghost of miles]

18 hours ago, JSngry said:

What are some of your favorite Disco records?

 

… I keed, I keed!

I haven’t revisited the disco era much since living through it as a kid and hearing it on the radio all the time from 1975-80. I enjoyed (and would probably still enjoy) quite a few of the songs that made the charts. Some of what I liked might be considered more Philly soul than disco, though. 

 

Edited August 9 by ghost of miles

[HutchFan]

On 7/7/2014 at 5:51 PM, mikeweil said:

I'm seriously biased about Mwandishi and Crossings as these were among the albums that rocked my world back then ... desert island discs for me. I never heard a better fusion of electric and acoustic sounds, or funky grooves beyond cliché with free form jazz playing.

Just looking back thru this thread, I was immediately struck by Mike's comments about Mwandishi and Crossings from ten years ago.  

I couldn't agree more!    They're MIND-BLOWERS.

 

Edited August 9 by HutchFan

[JSngry]

19 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

 

I haven’t revisited the disco era much since living through it as a kid and hearing it on the radio all the time from 1975-80. I enjoyed (and would probably still enjoy) quite a few of the songs that made the charts. Some of what I liked might be considered more Philly soul than disco, though. 

 

There's this, and then there's everything else,:

But holding a strong #2:

 

[JSngry]

 

 

[mjazzg]