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Today we're going to give you seven of our favorite Herbie Hancock albums.

I believe it's pronounced Herbert Hancock.

Actually, I believe it's pronounced Herbert Jeffrey Hancock.

All right, we're getting a little too formal for Herbie, I think. Herbie Hancock born in a little trivia, throw it out there. Are we talking about year or place? Well, year and place. Was he born in Chicago? Chicago, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure the year, though. 19 yep all right um we love herbie here that's why

his name comes up almost every episode i'm shocked that we haven't actually done this before but maybe

we have no i know would you say that he's probably like one of the most influential pianists in your

like professional yes i mean yeah i think he's i think he's the most in a way. It's definitely for me. He is. Yeah. And I'm a little bit ashamed to say that because there's so many other great players, but you can do a lot worse than Herbie Hancock, you know. Yeah, I mean, his sound is just so cool. Like, and it's still so relevant and even all these records that we're about to list. Some of these are from, you know,

the 60s, the early 60s, and they still sound fresh to me. Yeah, yeah, we're going to get to some

later stuff too, I think, but I mean, for me, and it's, it didn't even come directly from

Herbie Hancock influencing me. It actually came through Kenny Kirkland first, which led me back,

because I saw Kenny Kirkland when I was real young live,

and that was one of the things that really made me want to be a jazz pianist. I mean, I was into jazz a little bit before that, but not like seeing something like that live where you're like, wait, I want to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, you know, when I got to meet Kenny Kirkland, one of the first names of, in terms of records and stuff

was check out Herbie Hancock

and I was like, yeah, I've heard of him,

but I want to be like you.

He kind of laughed, you know.

That's awesome. Kenny Kirkland, one of the first names of in terms of records and stuff, was check out Herbie Hancock. And I was like, yeah, I've heard of him, but I want to be like you.

He kind of laughed, you know. So let's jump right into it. Why don't you start out with... Yeah, I'm going to kick it off with... This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's Made in Voyage, 1965, Blue Note Records. One of the greatest jazz albums ever made. This is such a cool, it's kind of minimalist vibe, and I don't know how this didn't make our minimalist album list. Even the album cover is minimalist. Even the album cover is minimalist. This is such a cool album. Tunes like Main Voice title track, one of my favorite tunes. I have the Herdecane, Little One, Dolphin Dance.

I mean, these are all standards.

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