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Then And Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock,Herbie Hancock

- Then And Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock
Released 2008

Maiden Voyage
07:55
490 plays

Chameleon
07:35
484 plays

Cantaloupe Island
05:30
3,209 plays

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- 1
- Maiden Voyage
- 07:55
- 490 plays

- 2
- Cantaloupe Island
- 05:30
- 3,209 plays

- 3
- Wiggle Waggle
- 05:50
- 1,955 plays

- 4
- Chameleon
- 07:35
- 484 plays

- 5
- St. Louis Blues
- 05:49
- 2,105 plays

- 6
- Chan's Song (Never Said)
- 04:14
- 1,414 plays

- 7
- River
- 05:27
- 1,778 plays

- 8
- Don't Explain
- 04:51
- 1,598 plays

- 9
- All Apologies
- 05:04
- 1,356 plays

- 10
- Watermelon Man
- 06:29
- 1,624 plays

- 11
- Rockit
- 04:04
- 1,592 plays

- 12
- River
- 05:35
- 1,168 plays

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album review

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, All Music Guide