John Murthaug "Blues Current"

excellent moogish Lp featuring Herbie... on piano !
only 128 kbps... if someone has a better rip...

Eddie Henderson "Heritage"

Continuing to evolve, with eyes and ears fixed on the very different paths that Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock were blazing in those days, Dr. Eddie Henderson, musician and psychiatrist, retreats a bit further from the cutting edge here. The rhythms gets tighter and funkier due to the presence of two of the Headhunters -- bassist Paul Jackson and drummer Mike Clarke -- and one of Davis' boys, percussionist Mtume. The structures of the tunes are more pronounced, Henderson's trumpet work resembles that of Davis more than ever, and Hadley Caliman invokes the absent Bennie Maupin on bass clarinet. With the notable exception of her Hancock-like solo on "Dr. Mganga," Patrice Rushen's keyboard textures are more sweeping, layered and less inventive than those on previous Henderson outings, without the pointillistic fireworks and pink noise of the early '70s. There is enough of the old experimental Eddie Henderson here to keep his wild-eyed electric music fans interested, but he was clearly being pulled slowly and inexorably into a more commercially-minded orbit, possibly in a doomed attempt to remake him into another Donald Byrd-like cash cow. AMG

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Eddie Henderson "Sunburst"

The group includes work by Harvey Mason, George Duke, Julian Priester, Alphonso Johnson, and Bennie Maupin -- and the great Skip Drinkwater is at the production chair, cutting the grooves here with a lot more fire than in some of his later work! The whole thing's great -- and titles include "Involuntary Bliss", "Galaxy", "Kumquat Kids".

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Eddie Henderson "Inside Out"

From the great blog "Orgy in Rhythm" ;)

Eddie Henderson for Capricorn Records from 1974
If you enjoyed Julian Priester's "Love Love" then this should float your space boat.Here's a write up from Perfect Sound Forever - Hancock's Headhunters and Hendersons:
Hancock remained to the close of Henderson's Inside Out (1974), as did most of the crew, with Buster Williams taking up the bass and Bill Summers in on congas. The cover reversed the theme from universal to earthly, trading a snap of a nebula for a stratosphere-high photo of an arid section of Earth, retaining the theme of distance at least. In many ways, the music followed suit, Maupin's favoring of the stritch, a mid-East horn with a shrill upper register, arabesqued the gig even more profoundly than the last outing. This time, there were three short songs, four long ones. Williams bass is extremely muscular, at times John Wetton-ish (a la King Crimson's Lark's Tongue), throughout the album, lead-guitar-ish in the funky title groove, weighting it supernaturally into the Earth's crust. Henderson skips and skitters far above, imbued with terrene energies but determined to paint the skies in fascinating hues. Maupin book-ends him, alternating 'twixt reeds, winds, and horns, wailing out some of the best licks of his illustrious career.

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Herbie Hancock "Live At Tokyo 09 28 78"

Butterfly
Chameleon
I Thought it Was You
Shifless Shuffle
Sunlight

Another Bootleg recorded during the "Sunlight" Tour
pretty cool !

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Bennie Maupin "Slow Traffic To The Right"

Thanks to Orgy in Rhythm for this great post !!!

Bennie Maupin takes comparatively contemporary looks at his pair of contributions to Herbie Hancock's Crossings and is joined by two fellow and key vets of that session: Eddie Henderson and Dr. Pat Gleeson. (Also on board: Patrice Rushen, Blackbird McKnight, Ralph Armstrong.) A barely recognizable "Water Torture" is tightened from 14 to five minutes, anchored by a pliant rhythm. "Quasar," the finale, isn't as drastically overhauled but is made to sound more like a theme. Much of this is due to the change in Gleeson's role. On Crossings, his synthesizer interjections are delivered as effect-like enhancements; here, his machines hurl a vein-melting crescendo of synthesized strings that double with actual strings. Like Maupin's other two '70s albums, Jewel in the Lotus (ECM) and Moondreams (Mercury), Slow Traffic to the Right has never been released on CD

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Patrice Rushen "Shout It Out"

Thanks to My Jazz World for this !!!

released in 1977 on Prestige Records and inexplicably never came out on CD. The other players are Al McKay, Charles Meeks, James Gadson and Bill Summers creating an almost Headhunters-like groove.
"The Hump" is the hit !

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Patrice Rushen "Prelusion"

This was ripped by the great bacoso @ orgy in rhythm !!!

Patrice Rushen for Prestige from 1974.
A fantastic bit of hard fusion from Patrice before she started warbling and going for the commercial market featuring Joe Henderson on Tenor-Highly Recommended.
Barely out of her teens - keyboardist Patrice Rushen started a trio of great albums for Prestige: Prelusion, Before the Dawn and Shout It Out in 1974 with guest Joe Henderson on tenor sax. Whilst the majority of side two veers into hard Headhunters style jazz/funk its the whole of side one that captures the attention. Both tracks are written by Rushen who plays acoustic and electric pianos as well as clavinet and ARP synthesisers. Both arrangements are lengthy, almost movie soundtrack in feel with excellent horn arrangements.
And here's Dusty Groove's review:
A great set from Patrice Rushen -- very different than her later R&B work from the 80s! The record's her first, and at the time, Patrice was much more of a jazz artist -- working here with a cool west coast set of players (Joe Henderson on tenor, Hadley Caliman on alto and soprano, and Oscar Brashear on trumpet), playing a range of keyboards, from acoustic and electric piano, to ARP, and clavinet. The tracks are long, and have a wonderfully composed soul jazz vibe -- feeling a heck of a lot like work on labels like Strata East, deeply dipping into a soulful bag that's solid and real, with no fakery or tricks to make the mood happen.

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Patrice Rushen-Bill Evans-John Lewis-Marian McPartland "Monterey Jazz Festival '75"

isn't she cute ?

Patrice Rushen "Before the Dawn"

Found this @my favorite sounds, wonderfull blog !

http://myfavvouritesound.blogspot.com/

LP (Item 57605) Prestige, 1975

Patrice Rushen's second album and a very sweet batch of keyboard funk! The record has Patrice working in a groove that's almost like that of Herbie Hancock at the time -- using lots of electric piano, clavinet, and synth to craft some mighty fine jazz funk grooves. The group's a monster assemblage of Fantasy jazz players like Hubert Laws, Lee Ritenour, Hadley Caliman, and Harvey Mason -- and the session crackles with a tight edge that you'll never find in any of Patrice's later work. Tracks are long, with lots of great spacey grooves, and titles include "Razzia", "Before The Dawn", "Kickin Back", and "Jubilation"

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Wah Wah Watson "Elementary"

Found this @ Oufar Khan's wonderfull blog !
http://oufarkhan.blogspot.com/
a nice version of "Bubbles" wich is also on herbie's "Manchild" .
including Bennie Maupin, Herbie Hancock, Dave Grusin...

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Norman Connors "Saturday Night Special"

You can find this at My Jazz World
http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com/
one of the greatest blog around !

featuring: Herbie Hancock, Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Carlos Garnett, Reggie Lucas, Michael Henderson, Buster Williams, Ken Nash, Bill Summers...

Herbie Hancock "Live At Omaha"

Another Live Bootleg


Herbie Hancock and Headhunters
Music Hall
Omaha, NB
11/17/75
Herbie: Keys
Paul Jackson: bass
Mike Clark: Drums
Blackbyrd Mcknight: guitar
Bill Summers: percussion
Bennie Maupin: Reeds & Lyricon

tracklist

1/ Hang Up Your Hangs Up
2/ Percussion Solo
3/ Steppin' In It
4/ Talk
5/ Watermelon Man
6/ Bubbles

Enjoy !

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