I love everyone’s picks. I would add “Flood,” a live album recorded in Japan in 1975. It’s Headhunters with Mike Clark instead of Harvey Mason on drums. The track “Actual Proof” is legendary. The follow-up to Sunlight was Mr Hands in 1980 containing a beautiful track wi 11:25 th Jaco & Tony and several tracks featuring members of the original Headhunters. Mr Hands is a killer record.

"Secrets" (1976)

I see Mr. Hands also didn't make your list. You might want to give it another listen.

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I bought Mwandishi when it 1st came out. I had just turned 21. I still listen to the tracks, howbeit, not on vinyl. I also love his CROSSINGS lp. The Sleeping Giant is one gem of a cut. I was always a fan of the album covers.

Great list, Kenny! Two I would suggest for top 10 are Fat Albert Rotunda and Tribute to Miles. Strongly agreed with Headhunters and Maiden Voyage as 1 and 2!

Another great video !!! Herbie Hancock is among my favorite jazz pianists. Like his mentor Miles, Hancock's music is ever evolving. Like his mentor Donald Byrd, his music has Funk and Soul. My most re-visted albums: Takin Off, Fat Albert Rotunda, Emprean Isles, Headhunters, Future Shock, Man-child, Secrets, Maiden Voyage, Dis Is Da Drum, Possibilities + Sound System + Perfect Machine + Mr Hands +River (Joni Letters)

Kenny, this is a nice list... I'll post my top 10 Herbie albums below and ones outside the top 10, but I wouldn't place FOR ME, "Future Shock" or any of the Laswell trilogy in my top 10. Having The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988 has changed my mind on "Future Shock", it's a very good album but "Sound System" while having great tracks like "Karabali" and "Junku" the album clones "Future Shock" and "Perfect Machine" outside of the great, classic "Chemical Residue" with it's deeper emphasis on industrial, the album is the weakest of the three IMO. Now onto my top 10 Herbie albums... at least for today. I can understand depending on viewers tastes or where they come from musically why "Dis Is Da Drum" is in their top rankings, and it also has an innovative video, but it tries to recapture the "Future Shock" thing by delving more into 90's hip hop, but "Future 2 Future" was a better album at blending contemporary house, techno, drum n bass and trip hop. "Monster" is by far IMO his worst Columbia album and aside from "Saturday Night", and as you mentioned, "Stars In Your Eyes" which was huge in the Black community, it absolutely sucks and is a dog. 1. Flood 2. Empyrean Isles 3. Sextant 4. Takin Off 5.Crossings 6. Mr. Hands 7. VSOP Live Under The Sky 8. VSOP: Tempest In The Colosseum 9. The Piano 10. Dedication Albums I love outside the Top 10 1. Headhunters 2. Maiden Voyage (as great as these tunes are they are very well worn jazz standards at this point unless Herbie plays them-- always finding something new in them) 3. Man Child 4. Speak Like A Child 5. Inventions And Dimensions 6. My Point of View 7. The New Standard 8. Directions In Music: Live At Massey Hall 9. Secrets 10. VSOP 11. VSOP: Five Stars 12. An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea 13. Lite Me Up 14. Sunlight 15. Directstep 16. Village Life (with Foday Musa Suso) 17. Herbie Hancock Trio ('77) 18. Herbie Hancock Trio ('81) 19. Herbie Hancock Quartet

Really like and follow your channel. Dexter Gordon was nominated for 'Round Midnight. Just received the 4K remastered version. Thanks for what you do.

Herbie Hancock is my favorite Jazz musician after Miles Davis. I saw Herbie Hancock 3 times in the early 70s. I did not care for Sunlight and didn’t listen to any of his follow up albums until Future Shock. I agree with your #1.

Surprised you didn’t have Takin’ Off and Inventions and Dimensions in your top ten but like you said it’s not constricted to just jazz. My favorite Hancock albums are: Takin’ Off My Point Of View Inventions and Dimensions Empyrean Isles Maiden Voyage Head Hunters

It looks like you have many copies of one album too am I right ?. I just wouldnt have the room myself. Are you insured ? Thats a costly bundle you have if theres a fire. Although you could never replace that collection as is.

I only have around 300 of what I really like the other 2000 albums mainly 60s to 2000 soul, the rest are a mix of cd's or flac files & a few music cassettes for my Sony Walkman WM-22 personal stereo portable cassette tape player Red. which still works from the mid 70's as a 16 year old.

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Hi Mr. Kenny, As usual, Excellent spotlight on the one and only Herbie Hancock. It is arguably extremely difficult to categorize his overall musical outputs and achievements. A true genius in every sense of the word. On a side note, it takes me way back to my college years and on one of the occasions that I was discussing music in general with some of my friends, one of them from New Rochelle, New York, confided that her mom used to date Mr. Herbert Hancock. Finally, l possess a lot of his recordings that you have listed and thank you for your wonderful presentation.

Great list as always. My favorite Herbie Hancock is one of my favorite and most listened albums ever, Sunlight

Check out a track called ‘Early Warning’ on a lesser known Herbie Hancock & Foday Musa Suso LP- Village Life. One of my all time fav Herbie tracks along with Maiden Voyage.

Round Midnight?

1.Maiden Voyage 2.Empyrean Isles 3.Headhunters 4.Trust 5.Quartet (1982) 6.A Tribute To Miles Davis 7.VSOP The Quintet (1977) 8.Parallel Realities 9.Flood 10.Sextant

as others hav said, alabama. i started cryin the first time i heard it. i still do. holy smoke. the creator has a master plan on ]haroah sanders karma really does it, as does coltrane a love supreme. a lot of the mccoy tyner stuff, ear and mid period has a serious and profound impact.

i like much but not all of the herbie hancock ive heard. maiden voyages is easy, and man-child is a lot of fun. i bought it for the album cover and enjoy it quote a good bit. empyream isles is def my favorite.

My favorites would be: 1. Takin" Off. 2. Empyrean Isles 3. Maiden Voyage 4. Gershwin's World 5. Crossing 6. Herbie Hancock Quartet (with Wynton Marsalis) 7. Headhunters 8. Best of: Blue Note (a nice sampler) 9. Miles Davis: Nefertiti 10. Jaco Pastorious (debut album) No particular order. I love them all.

Herbie is certainly one of the greatest. I saw him for live for the first time in '76 or so at Brooklyn College in NY, also on the ticket was The Mahavishnu Orchestra with Narada Michael Walden on drums. I'll never forget it. 1.Maiden Voyage 2.Takin Off 3.The Piano 4.Emperyan Isles 5.Inventions & Dimensions 6.Mwandishi The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings 7.Thrust 8.Trio '77 9.Head Hunters 10.The Prisoner

Kenny there was once a jazz group called maiden vogue. Do you have any info on what happen to them ? Kenny. All female group

I have about 800 albums or more. Do to the price of albums I get most of mine at flea markets and thrift stores. I have a Elvis album that I got in second grade for my birthday

Wonderful review as always. Kenny

oh wow I haven't heard that one with Chick Corea in years, will try and track it down

Don't think I'm qualified to say what the top Herbie Hancock albums should be, but Thrust would definitely be in the top 3. I love the jazz fusion sound and Bennie Maupin is fantastic on bass clarinet.

I have a sonos system and a u-turn orbit record player setup. But I'm looking to expand my setup to incorporate an at home cd player (i have a huge collection of cds). Any recs where to start with at home cd setup?

Also on my list and excluded on yours is Takin' Off with Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins. It was recorded in 1962 and I think his first as the featured artist.

Sun goddess? What’s your favorite top 10 Chet Baker albums love your channel. I’ve learned a lot. Keep up the great work.

I have a friend Who has only let 3 of his friends see his massive collection of everything music. At least over 3.7 million items OF pieces…. I am amazed at this as well. Discipline.

I have it in a different order, but this is also great, Kenny ...👍✌

Whoop whoop! Kenny! Herbie! The good stuff. The order is just about perfect, too. I don't have that Chick Corea collaborative album or My Point of View, so I'd have exactly the same ranking, but with Speak Like a Child and Crossings in there, too. You left out all the chaff, Kenny, as usual.

whats up with "Lite me up"? -> the bomb

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Maiden Voyage was my 1st Jazz album i ever purchased.

I like 'The Piano/Herbie Hancock' album (1979), recorded and originally available only in Japan.

Hey Kenny greetings from UK, an artist very well known here, but not jazz, I agree headhunters would be my number one, the classic " I thought it was you" brought attention to Herbie here.his magic windows and Mr hands, I would say are well known here in the UK.. and of course rockit which is probably his most successful track, we really started to get into his blue note stuff later on, my fave is invention and dimensions

THANKS a million for answering my question and for the name-check, Kenny! I believe Herbie Hancock is one of the true visionaries that has impacted a wide range of genres, so I appreciate you including jazz records and beyond. You listed a couple that I haven't heard so I'll check them out! Here's my list Top Ten 1) Headhunters 2) Man-Child 3) Thrust 4) Empyrean Isles 5) Secrets 6) Future Shock 7) Sextant 8) Maiden Voyage 9) Perfect Machine 10) Mr Hands Honorable mentions Flood, Fat Albert Rotunda, A Tribute to Miles, Mwandishi, VSOP

a nice ranking of Herbie Hancock releases. Cheers!

Here's mine 1-10: sextant

Damn, dude. That’s quite a collection. I’ve got about 400 records and 500 CDs. I’ve stopped grabbing records at this point because new releases are way too expensive. I grab CDs at the thrift, used music stores or eBay. I’m currently waiting on a cope of Stanley Jordan MAGIC TOUCH on CD. New releases, I generally use Amazon to grab CDs.

As usual I love and appreciate your choices, Kenny. Mine are similar with a little different order. However, I would like to bring to your attention a live in Japan double album titled Flood that has incredible sonics for a live recording and features a version of Butterfly that is truly amazing on a quality sound system. Peace and love!

White Rabbit and Blue Benson, George Benson...Possibilities was my most recent vinyl acquisition that I've had on CD for years. Also the Joni Letters.

Great minds! I have most of the albums on your list. Your show is always most interesting. And affords me new knowledge of stuff I may have missed out on. Simply great and most enjoyable, Thank You!! Thee was a time I would stay in a darken room for hours listening music to calm and sooth my soul. 1. Horace Silvers, "Song For my Father" (Which I came upon by accident. Because it was a colored RED 45 record.) Fell in love with it! 2. Herbie Hancock, "Maiden Voyage" 3. Chic Corea, "Light as A Feature" 4. Miles Davis, "Round Midnight" & "So What" to round out my day before going out. I will look into the two that I didn't have.

1)Maiden Voyage 2)Headhunters 3)Empryrean Isles 4)Thrust 5)Takin Off 6)V.S.O.P. 7)Mwandishi 8)Speak Like A Child 9)Parallel Realities 10)Mr. Hands

Hi Kenny, mais uma grande aula sobre um clássico do jazz. Obrigado pela possibilidade de usufruir de seu talento. Ótimo final de semana com saúde e paz. Zenon (from Brasil)

Maiden Voyage & Head Hunters are both masterpieces. Both blew my mind when I listened.

I'm pretty sure that Maiden Voyage was my first Herbie Hancock purchase. I think I have more albums with Herbie as a sideman than as a lead. I should probably work on that.