Herbie Hancock BST 84195 French repressing from 1984
I like the Direct Metal Masters that collectors turn their collective noses up at. I've got a first pressing to compare to, and the DMM is cleaner.
Herbie was a child prodigy, playing a Mozart Concerto with the Chicago Sym at age 11. He left Grinnell College to learn jazz at the feet of Coleman Hawkins and Donald Byrd (later to return to get his twin degrees in EE and music).
This album is his fifth as leader, and after much time spent with Miles in his second great quintet.
W/ Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter, George Coleman, and Anthony Williams.
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