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Artist: Herbie Hancock
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Product Summary
Label: Uni/verve
UPC: 00731455779721
Release Date: 10/20/1998
Buy.com Sku: 60350590
Item#: M9C3MF
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSampleTimePriceDownload
1. Overture (Fascinating Rhythm) ~ Herbie Hancock0:54Song not available. Why?
2. It Ain't Necessarily So ~ Herbie Hancock4:46Song not available. Why?
3. Man I Love, The ~ Herbie Hancock5:56Song not available. Why?
4. Here Come De Honey Man ~ Herbie Hancock3:58Song not available. Why?
5. St. Louis Blues - (with Stevie Wonder) ~ Herbie Hancock5:50$0.99Download
6. Lullaby ~ Herbie Hancock *11:03Song not available. Why?
7. Blueberry Rhyme ~ Herbie Hancock3:30Song not available. Why?
8. It Ain't Necessarily So (Interlude) ~ Herbie Hancock1:24Song not available. Why?
9. Cotton Tail ~ Herbie Hancock4:44$0.99Download
10. Summertime ~ Herbie Hancock4:41$0.99Download
11. My Man's Gone Now ~ Herbie Hancock1:55Song not available. Why?
12. Prelude In C# Minor ~ Herbie Hancock4:45Song not available. Why?
13. Concerto For Piano And Orchestra In G, 2nd Movement (Ravel) ~ Herbie Hancock *9:12Song not available. Why?
14. Embraceable You ~ Herbie Hancock4:38Song not available. Why?

(P) 1998 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
(C) 1998 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
 
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Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
GERSHWIN'S WORLD won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group. "St. Louis Blues" won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s).
Personnel: Herbie Hancock (piano, organ); Stevie Wonder (vocals, harmonica); Joni Mitchell, Kathleen Battle (vocals); Bakithi Kumalo (guitar, bass instrument); Marlon Graves (guitar, percussion); Charles Curtis (cello); James Carter , Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Kenny Garrett (alto saxophone); Eddie Henderson (trumpet); Chick Corea (piano); Ira Coleman, Alex Al (bass instrument); Terri Lyne Carrington (drums); Massamba Diop (talking drum); Madou Dembelle (djembe); Cyro Baptista, Bireyma Guiye, Cheik Mbaye (percussion); Robert Sadin (programming); Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Liner Note Author: Robert Sadin.
The epitome of a 20th Century musician, Herbie Hancock has always traversed wildly divergent stylistic paths, finding his way easily into jazz, funk, fusion, dance-pop and more. His ability to make valid individual statements in all these genres is part of what makes his compositions and performances so rich. So it doesn't seem at all incongrous for Hancock to interpret the work of George Gershwin, redefining much of the Gershwin canon in the process (with assistance from some world-class compatriots). Hancock's stated aim for GERSHWIN'S WORLD is to get inside the pieces, illustrating their essence rather than knocking off rote versions of these standards. Towards that end, "St. Louis Blues" is transmogrified by the soulful vocals and funky chromatic harmonica of Stevie Wonder; "It Ain't Necessarily So" becomes an ominous, angular jazz vamp, with saxmen James Carter and Kenny Garret trading arch, sly interjections. Another genre-buster, Joni Mitchell, makes a case for a potential career as a jazz vocalist via her performance on "The Man I Love" and "Summertime."

 
Compilation Appearances
Vol. 1-Blue Break Beats
Jingle Bell Jazz
Angelus
Pt. 1-Electric Funk
Mtv Class Of 1983
Color & Light-Jazz Sketches On
Vol. 1-Prodigy Presents-Dirtch
Only Dance 1980-84
Little Girl Blue
80's Dance Party
Monterey Jazz Festival-Forty L
Vol. 8-Sensual Collection
Wave-The Antonio Carlos Jobim
Live At The Free Jazz Festival
Twist Of Jobim
Gershwin's World
JINGLE BELL SWING
Jazz-Definitive Performances
Best Blue Note Album In The Wo
Soul Sauce!
Streetsoul (Explicit Version)
Ken Burns Jazz-Story Of America
Vol. 3-Strange Games & Funky T
Mouth Music
Disco Dance
Zoolander
SOLID STEEL
Musical Biography
Asia Lounge-Asian Flavoured Club Tune
Scratchology
Smooth Jazz Hear And Now
Untinted Madlib'ssources
Nea Jazz Masters
Love, Q
Blue Note Plays Stevie Wonder
Weekend Jazz Bistro
Undecover
Basic Jazz Vol 1
Vice City(box Set) 1002
Creepin With Cats
Rewind: Best Of The 80's (w/Bonus DVD)(w/ Bonus DVD)
Most Fun You've Had All Decade: 80s
Hand On The Torch (bonus Cd) (bonus Tracks)
Best Of Blue Note
Story Of Jazz
Best Blue Note Album In The World
Pieta
Man Alive
Chromeo Presents Un Joli Mix Pour Toi
Ultimate Easy Album
Blue Note Trip
Martha Stewart Living Music: The Holiday Collection
Martha Stewart Living Music: Jazz For the Holidays
Higher Ground Hurricane Benefit Relief Concert
Baraka
Best Of Breakdance And Electric Boogi
Mastercuts Jazz Cafe
Givin It Up
Awake
Original Jazz Box Set
Portrait Of Bill Evans
Any Way The Wind Blows / O.s.t.
We All Love Ennio Morricone
Right On:atlantic Soul Vol 1
Cosmic Lounge Vol 1
Essential Jaco Pastorius
Goin Home:tribute To Fats Domingo
Now We Are Ten
2008 Grammy Nominees
Now That's What I Call Music: 80's
Strange Jazz
Smooth Jazz
Bar Funk

 
Associated Artists and Works
Artists, Various
Mastercuts Legends ~ Brown, James
Carter, Ron
Corea, Chick
Corea, Chick
Corea, Chick
Ears, Rabbit
Elias, Eliane
Eric Dolphy Quintet
Jazz Duo:lionel Hampton/Herbie Hancock ~ Hampton, Lionel
Headhunters (Jazz) (The)
Headhunters (The)
Baraka ~ Heath, Albert "Tootie"
Hubbard, Freddie
Jones, Quincy
Jones, Quincy
Jones, Quincy
McBride, Christian
Mitchell, Joni
Mobley, Hank
Moreira, Airto
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Orquestra Was
Rabbit Ears
Rabbit Ears
Shorter, Wayne
Sly & Robbie
Various Artists

 
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