Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage LP

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The LP appears unplayed, NM. The inner, plastic lined paper sleeve is NM. The jacket has light ring wear, a corner bump and wrinkling at the bottom left-hand corner, tight seams, and a readable spine...VG+
From Rate Your Music - 
jshopa Dec 30 2006 Maiden Voyage is probably Herbie Hancock's most beloved album, an album of all originals, very breezy and based around a thematic sensation of sailing and the sea. The theme is largely carried by Tony Williams' soothing wash of drums and cymbals and Herbie's piano, while Freddie Hubbard's trumpet wheels about in the air. Of course, like any 'most beloved' jazz album, it's never quite as exciting or adventurous as my favourite works by Hancock (say, Headhunters or the prior Empyrean Isles). I don't want to call it dull because, for one, it isn't at all, but it does have a tendency to just drift right by. Outside of the gliding title track and the storm-tossed "Survival of the Fittest", I do have some trouble differentiating between the album's tracks. Then again, I never find myself inclined to skip past any of them.
This is probably his most famous release before he went towards funk & quite easily his best.

jshopa Dec 30 2006
Considering that I like the nature of modal jazz more than I do regular hard bop, this was something I was excited to go into. What stood out to me most was Hubbard’s trumpet playing, he adapts to Hancock’s modal tendencies well. It’s just high quality stuff overall, I don’t have much to say. I guess my only complaint is that the songs do get boring at points & start to lose me, which is a more common issue with me & jazz in general.

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