Takin' Off APHI 501036 with his limitless technique

with his limitless technique

The album includes one of Hancock’s best-known compositions

the band also enjoyed the opportunity to improvise ideas in the studio

Released just a few years after the epochal Phil Spector-produced River Deep Mountain High

and new artwork

Takin' Off APHI 501036 with his limitless techniqueTakin Off was pianist Herbie Hancocks (born in Chicago on April 12, 1940; he is 79 at this writing) first album under his own name. All of the compositions are by the leader, who is backed by such stars as Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Butch Warren, and Billy Higgins. The album includes one of Hancocks best known compositions, Watermelon Man, which made it to the Top 100 on the pop charts. The tune would become a jazz standard, after being covered