Magic Windows [Import, Original recording remastered]

Herbie Hancock | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B000007VNL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #419,427 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funkafied!, September 25, 2003

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Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magic Windows (Audio CD)

On "Magic Number","Everybody's Broke" and "Help Yourself"
Herbie delivers rhythm guitar-heavy synth-funk at it's finest
and on the brilliant "Twilight Clone"-a totally unique brand
of synthesized,funk electronica dance music comes to the fore.
"Tonights The Night" and "Satisfied With Love" are the same exact
song with a different melody and singer,but it's still geepy R&B
balladeering to me.But up the tempo and the album COOKS!!!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The best of a bad 1977-82 crop..., December 30, 2001

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J. Lund "jazzbrat" (SoCal, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magic Windows (Audio CD)

Yet another in a series of albums issued under Hancock's name that offers little evidence of his keyboard talents. Allowing for that annoyance, WINDOWS is the best pop-oriented HH album of this period. At least some real singers are brought in to replace Hancock's vocoder. The material is mostly off the production line, with a moderate level of inspiration at times (plus sign: the grooves are more funk, less disco). EVERYBODY'S BROKE tosses a relevant message into the derivative party atmosphere. THE TWILIGHT CLONE ends the album on a progressive note with a Talking Heads-like polyrhythmic layer of rhythm that anticipates the upcoming projects with Bill Laswell (ROCKIT, et al.). If only this album started there and proceeded accordingly. Still, if you have to have one CD in your collection covering HH's disco/funk/r&b era, I'd go for this one. Yet, if you can resist the temptation, pass on all of them and focus on Herbie's earlier and more recent efforts, where the talent and ambition that we love Herbie for are not misplaced and miscast.

0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Herbie Hancock - Magic Windows, March 3, 2006

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Christopher Ventress (Springfield, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magic Windows (Audio CD)

The disk was in perfect condition. The sound was clear and solid. Very, very good.