Tag: Post-Bop

  • Herbie Hancock, Inventions and Dimensions, 1964 on Blue Note

    Herbie Hancock, Inventions and Dimensions, 1964 on Blue Note

    Hancock is joined by Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo and Chihuahua Martinez—though it’s not really what you’d call a Latin jazz album so much as post-bop or modal. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at his Englewood Cliffs studio. My copy—direct from Blue Note—is the 2019 Blue Note 80 Vinyl Series reissue mastered for vinyl by Kevin…

  • Wayne Shorter, Schizophrenia, 1969 on Blue Note

    Wayne Shorter, Schizophrenia, 1969 on Blue Note

    Eleventh Wayne Shorter album, with Herbie Hancock, Curtis Fuller, Ron Carter, James Spaulding, and Joe Chambers. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, with Francis Wolff producing. This is transitional between post-bop and free jazz – looser and closer to the edge than my normal taste, but worth a listen for anyone interested in post-bop or Shorter…