[TR24][OF] Herbie Hancock - Secrets - 1976/2013 (Jazz-Funk, Fusion)

Herbie Hancock sera toujours l’une des figures les plus vénérées et les plus controversées du monde du jazz — tout comme le fut son employeur et mentor Miles Davis de son vivant. Contrairement à Miles, qui a poursuivi sans relâche et n’a presque jamais regardé en arrière jusqu'à la fin de sa carrière, Hancock a avancé en zigzaguant, faisant la navette, au cours du dernier tiers du XXe siècle, entre presque toutes les mouvances du jazz électronique et acoustique et du R&B. Bien que très influencé par Bill Evans et capable d'absorber les influences blues, funk, gospel et les sonorités classiques plus modernes, le style d'Hancock au piano et au clavier lui est entièrement propre ; ses morceaux ont ses harmoniques caractéristiques et sa signature complexe, profondément rythmique.

Having long since established his funk credentials, Herbie Hancock continues the direction of Head Hunters and its U.S. successors here, welding himself to the groove on electric keyboards while Bennie Maupin again shines sardonic beams of light on a variety of reeds. In "Doin' It," the most successful track, Hancock makes a more overt bid for the dancefloor, for the tune is basically one long irresistible groove with a very commercial-sounding bridge. Again Hancock chooses to recompose one of his standards; "Cantelope [sic] Island" is almost unrecognizable converted into a sauntering, swaggering thing. A streamlining process has set in -- the drumming has been simplified, some of the old high-voltage drive has been muted -- yet there are still enough enjoyable, intelligently musical things happening here to hold a Hancock admirer's attention.

foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2018-01-10 09:16:08
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Analyzed: Herbie Hancock / Secrets
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13      -0.21 dB   -15.67 dB      8:03 01-Doin' It
DR12      -0.21 dB   -15.49 dB      7:09 02-People Music
DR13      -0.21 dB   -15.47 dB      7:07 03-Cantelope Island
DR13      -0.21 dB   -16.38 dB      7:21 04-Spider
DR12      -0.21 dB   -13.95 dB      7:02 05-Gentle Thoughts
DR13      -0.21 dB   -15.02 dB      6:24 06-Swamp Rat
DR10      -1.07 dB   -15.17 dB      4:50 07-Sansho Shima
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Number of tracks:  7
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate:        96000 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2845 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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