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Empyrean Isles is the fourth album by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, released on June 17, 1964 on Blue Note Records. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist Herbert Jeffrey Hancock ("Herbie" born April 12 1940 is a Jazz Pianist and Composer. Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Hard bop is a style of Jazz that is an extension of Bebop (or "bop" music Modal jazz is Jazz using Musical modes rather than chord progressions as its harmonic framework In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Alfred Lion (1909-1987 was a German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939 allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Herbert Jeffrey Hancock ("Herbie" born April 12 1940 is a Jazz Pianist and Composer. Inventions and Dimensions is the third Album by Herbie Hancock, originally released in 1963 by Blue Note Records. Maiden Voyage is the fifth Album led by Jazz musician Herbie Hancock, and was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1965 for Blue Note An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Herbert Jeffrey Hancock ("Herbie" born April 12 1940 is a Jazz Pianist and Composer. Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. It features the debut of two of his most popular compositions, "One Finger Snap" and "Cantaloupe Island".

From the original liner notes by Nora Kelly: "This is a quartet album for trumpet and rhythm section. In this circumstance, a problem was created for the composer-arranger, in that the lack of another instrument supporting the lower, richer register, such as a tenor saxophone, might result in a shallow sound. With this problem in mind, Herbie Hancock, who composed and arranged all the tunes, wrote them to sound more like improvisations than ensemble melodies, so that the warmth and fullness of a supporting melody would not be missed. Free sketches were written in such a way that each instrument is allowed great flexibility of interpretation. In many cases, no melodic line was laid out over the chords nor atonal clusters written, so that the trumpeter could supply any melody he wished. "

From the 1999 reissue liner notes by Bob Blumenthal: "If someone had ordered up a program that explored four distinct areas of jazz expression with equal brilliance, they could not have done better than Empyrean Isles. It is as if Hancock had set out to present 'changes,' modal, funk and free playing and delivered each at its apex. "

The album was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder. Rudy Van Gelder (born November 2, 1924, in Jersey City New Jersey) is a recording engineer specializing in Jazz.

Track listing

All compositions by Herbie Hancock.

Original 1964 release:

"One Finger Snap" – 7:17
"Oliloqui Valley" – 8:27
"Cantaloupe Island" – 5:30
"The Egg" – 13:57

Remastered 1999 release:

"One Finger Snap" – 7:17
"Oliloqui Valley" – 8:27
"Cantaloupe Island" – 5:30
"The Egg" – 13:57
"One Finger Snap" (alternative take) – 7:33
"Oliloqui Valley" (alternative take) – 10:45

Personnel

Miscellanea

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In 1993 the group US3 sampled "Cataloupe Island" for their song "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", which is the biggest selling record of all time for Blue Note Records. Us3 is a Jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the

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