Takin' Off

Label: Blue Note Records
Release date: 28 May 1996
Running length: 9 tracks
Running time: 57:07

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Watermelon Man	6:57	204,211
2	Three Bags Full	5:23	20,636
3	Empty Pockets	6:09	23,266
4	The Maze	6:46	16,531
5	Driftin'	6:53	39,673
6	Alone And I	6:26	19,368
7	Watermelon Man (Alternate Take)	6:34	2,642
8	Three Bags Full (Alternate Take)	5:32	1,311
9	Empty Pockets (Alternate Take)	6:27	2,360

About this album

This is Hancock’s debut album, originally released in May 1962 about a year before he joined Miles Davis’s “second great quintet” with its rhythm section of Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and the young drummer Tony Williams. The pianist composed all the tracks on this LP, including his Watermelon Man, which became a pop hit for the Afro-Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria…

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