Product Details

• Actors: Ron Carter, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock, Herbie Hancock Trio
• Directors: V.I.E.W. Video
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: V.I.E.W. Video
• DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006ANKB
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #84,527 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Nothing short of breathtaking... In all, a CLASSIC! --Jazz Times Magazine

Product Description

With Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter playing bass, and Billy Cobham pounding out rhythms on the drums, in this classic DVD, Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!, the three musical masters explore their roots and capture the full spectrum of the art of Jazz in this concert performance, live from Switzerland. This spectacular full-length concert DVD is highlighted with displays of stellar musicianship, lyrical sensuality, and sizzling pyrotechnics. Complete with Dolby Audio, this special and historic DVD program, Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!, features a night of spectacular compositions and improvisations that display the unforgettable and passionate interplay between Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Billy Cobham, three Jazz masters on a search for musical excellence!

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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rent before you buy., December 12, 2003

By	Ron Cronovich "Ron" (Kenosha, WI) - See all my reviews

This title is worth renting. The playing is excellent, and is easily worth 5 stars. However, I've given this DVD less than 5 stars for two reasons.

First, the sound quality is mediocre. It's certainly good enough to enjoy the great playing. But it sounds like a copy of an analog copy of an analog master tape. There's a lot of background hiss, and when herbie plays a note or chord and holds it, the pitch is not perfectly steady - as if the analog tape player's motor is not passing the tape across the head at a perfectly constant rate.

Perhaps more importantly, we've heard a lot of this before. In the 1980s and 1990s, most (perhaps all) of Herbie's straight ahead jazz features selections from the same fairly narrow repetoire, with similar arrangements.

Now, don't get me wrong - the tunes are great, the arrangements are great, the solos are great. I certainly don't mean to offend any Herbie fans (and I'm a huge fan myself). But I have most of Herbie's CDs and DVDs, and I can tell you, the tunes and arrangements on this DVD are taken mostly from the same repetoire that has also yielded most of Herbie's other live straight ahead jazz recordings since the days of VSOP in the 1970s.

So, this title is definitely not "essential", and is probably better rented than purchased.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic songs from a Classic Concert!, July 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Hurricane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Three of the best musicians in jazz, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Cobham join forces in this unique Swiss reunion concert, recorded in 1984, that features Hancock's "Dolphin Dance" and "Eye of the Hurricane." JazzTimes described the video as "nothing short of breathtaking... In all, a classic!"

# 1329 (60 min, Hi-Fi Stereo)

4.0 out of 5 stars Good quailty DVD, But..., June 1, 2007

By	A. Richardson "Jazz Addict" (Los angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is technically a good quality DVD. I purchased it looking for something with Herbie playing some serious acoustic Jazz piano in trio style.

For the most part I was satisfied. My only complaint was that there seems to be a bit too much drum and base soloing and not enough evocative piano work going on... but I guess thats the nature of the beast with Herbie... He seems to seldom get into a melodic groove in a live setting or atleast not enough for me. Ron and and the Drummer are indeed great musicians so there is great musicianship on this DVD ... Just not enough piano for me. Sound and Image quality are excellent.

Oddly enough, the best part of the DVD (for me) was the Bonus track, where they play Herbie's Speak like a child, although a somewhat deconstructed version.