Pianist/composer Herbie Hancock: "Empyrean Isles"

Herbie Hancock is tonight's Jazz Feature Artist and this is one of his pivotal recordings done during a very fertile period in Herbie's career. Herbie had signed with Blue Note Records and was playing with Miles Davis in his "second great quintet". The album is called "Empyrean Isles" and features four varied Hancock tunes. The people involved are Freddie Hubbard on cornet in magnificent form. Bassist Ron Carter and the teenage drum genius, Tony Williams and of course Herbie Hancock. Despite the lack of a saxophone for a deeper sonority this album works and is one of Hancock's finest outings. Let Herbie take you to the Empyrean Isles tonight!.