I GREW UP LISTENING TO
THIS AMAZING LEGACY OF

HERBIE HANCOCK AND SO MANY
OTHER GREATS

BUT THIS IS MY FAVORITE
AND FOR A LONG TIME I NEVER

KNEW WHO THE ARTIST WAS,
BUT I WAITED PATIENTLY TO

HEAR IT THIS ONE AGAIN AND
NOW I KNOW AND

WHEN I FIRST HEARD
THIS ONE ON DETROIT'S
OWN FORMERLY WCHD & NOW WJZZ

I SAID I WAS VERY IMPRESSED
BECAUSE THEY NEVER DISAPPOINT

YOU W/ MOTORCITY'S FINEST QUALITY IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

@l.angellove1079

5y↑3

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL LEGACY AND AN EXTRAORDINARY MASTERPIECE WORK OF ART

FROM A GREAT MASTER
ON THE KEYS
HERBIE HANCOCK

AND TRULY AMAZING COLLABORATION WITH THE BEST

FREDDIE HUBBARD, RON CARTER
AND GEORGE COLEMAN

@domoniqueayers153

6y↑4

HERBIE HANDCOCK A TRUE MASTER MUSICIAN AT HIS BEST

PERFORMING WITH GREATNESS

IN HIS OWN JAZZY CLASSIC STYLE AND I'M STILL LOVING IT JUST AS THE DAY IT WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY &

FOREVER IT WILL REMAIN IN
MY MEMORY YES GREAT MUSIC 24/7 IN MY EARS

CONGRALUATIONS & WITH CONTINUE SUCCESS AT WHAT YOU DO BEST.

@mummm-yj1rl

5y↑2

TRUE TO HIS CRAFT AND SO
GENUINE AT HEART & I COULD
SIT AND LISTEN SO PATIENTLY

LIKE A KID LOST IN A CANDY
STORE BUT I WOULD BE AT A
CENTER OF THE GREATEST
CONCERT ON EARTH WITH

THE BEST JAZZ MUSICIANS
EVER TO CREATED & ENTERTAIN

ALL THEIR MUSIC CONNOISSEURS
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

All comments from YouTube:

@Scottjazz55

13y↑70

I put this song on this Christmas day to bring a great spirit. I feel God in the music. I remember the first time I heard it one night in my room when I was a junior in high school in 1971. After hearing Freddies solo I started to cry and made a little pledge to myself to find God in music and in life as it made me feel that "whatever the cost, to arrive at such a beautiful place would be worth it". Thank you Herbie, Freddie and of course Tony Williams on drums.....

@josephmclaughlin-zv2qo

51w↑2

Thank you for this. I feel what you have written.

@JonDunnmusician

17w↑2

What does religion have to do with this...😂

@44thenazz

16w

Really, it's Man...plain and simple.

@user-fg4fr2bz5y

24w↑7

George, Herbie and Ron are still with us. Rest in peace Tony and Freddie🙏

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

4y↑129

Am7/D - Cm7/F - Bbm7/Eb - Abm7/Db - Am7/D - Cm7/F
A truly mesmerizing chord pattern. 4 chords, 4 interlocking pentatonic scales. A fusion between ancient and contemporary. Thankyou Herbie for your Voyage.

@daniellakaran5760

3y↑2

Ima try that on a piano, the chords look pretty hard.

@paulhughan7031

3y↑19

What you're saying is wrong. The fourth chord has an E natural in it, it is not an Abm7 anything. It is more like a Dbm7 with a 13th. In fact the E natural is in the melody as well as the chord. Listen carefully before you contradict me. The four chord voicings are substantially different, and the fourth chord is not the same chord type as the others. The fourth chord from bottom to top--Db, Ab, Cb, Fb (E), Bb.

@daniellakaran5760

3y↑6

@Paul Hughan Thanks for the correction

@saxdrugsrockandroll

3y↑5

@Paul Hughan If you want to get deep into the minutia, it's about context. Sure, there's an E in the melody and piano voicing in that Abm7/Db that the original poster was talking about. Mr. Hancock has voiced that chord in a spread voicing similar to his previous voicing (at toset chords specifically the piano has a high Bb on top). Even though the chord could be called something like a Dbm13, based on the similarity of how it's been voiced previously it could be interpreted as an Abmi9(b6)/Db or even Db13sus (add b3) There's a fun excerpt in a podcast where they debate characterization of this exact thing. Go to 5:00 in on this podcast if you're interested --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3fFezSbC5w

@paulhughan7031

3y↑2

@Mortimus Mark VI ...yeah, I notice they forbid a sus chord from having the m3...
I have the (non-legal) Real Book 1980 and it lists the four chords as D7sus4 (which of course is a less precise way of writing Am7/D or perhaps C/D or D11), F7sus4, Eb7sus4 and Db7sus4. It can't possibly be a Db7sus4 if it has the minor 3rd (E or Fb) in it. I bet a ton of people grab the book and blithely push a 7sus4 chord voicing around, and think that's what Herbie Hancock did. It's not. His voicings are far more precise and specific (particularly the top note) than that, and the fourth chord is a distinctly different harmony than the others--more dissonant and piquant. To play it the way the Unreal Book has it represents a loss of musical content, and that is more than minutia. I mean, music IS minutia, changing a single note changes everything potentially. We all know that a lot of people just run their musical lives from the Unreal Book or whatever text, when a little bit of careful listening would show that there's stuff going on that someone else has missed.
Oh, and my copy of the Unreal Book has the bass lines all wrong...

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@christinecornetta7011

2y↑23

One of our favorite songs . I played this in tribute to my dad at his memorial service. We both loved this song.

@user-eq7gb1sp5j

20w↑7

One of my favorite jazz recordings of all time ❤

@carlbowles1808

4y↑64

I can't get too much of this tune. Smooth, calming and intelligent, the perfect antidote for the rough edges of life.

@juanandrade4299

2y↑1

Of course for the rough edges of life

@gurugeorge

1y↑40

Tony Williams' drumming is amazing - I mean, some bits he plays are clearly out of time an "official" sense in some places, yet he never loses time, the total effect is rock solid, but with a loose, splashy, impressionistic feel.

@realpcpayne5847

48w↑2

Well Stated! Masterpiece...

@charlestrane

9y↑407

This album is one of the reason I have listened to jazz for 45 years and also why Freddie Hubbard will always be my favorite trumpet player.

@AbbeyRuins

9y↑13

Charles Thompson "I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended. For I knew I had to rise above it all. Or drown in my own shit."

@Geaotrix

+Charles Thompson

Love this, check out my hip hop rendition of this, enjoy :)

https://soundcloud.com/dommini/voyage

@kjones5723

8y↑21

+Charles Thompson So glad to hear you say that about Freddie Hubbard; I think everyone appreciates the iconic level that Miles has attained and how great the Lee Morgan's and Charles Brown's of the world are. I, however, have always thought that Freddie's skill have been underrated. His 'First Light', 'Red Clay', and 'Sky Dive' LP's are beyond exquisite. I've had the opportunity to see him live on several occasions --- a consummate professional on stage; my assessment has him right up there with Miles .... just my opinion.

@sammydavis1760

8y↑2

POINT BLANK

@michaelbey5331

7y↑8

I must agree here. You do not hear nearly as much about Freddie Hubbard as his skill and body of work would dictate or demand. As a second on this subject I really wish Clifford Brown would have had more years. Nobody played Cherokee like he did!

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@carlbowles1808

6y↑10

perfect jazz chill pill from the 1960's. no unpleasant side effects or tolerance issues. works as well as the first time every time.

@joeymac3969

6y↑1

nicely put

@basehead617

7y↑12

Being able to listen to the first 20 seconds or so of George Coleman's sax solo is one of my favorite parts of living on this planet.

@tomasvanecek8626

38w↑1

Funny thing is, Tony W never liked Coleman when they both played with Miles 😊

@TJATJA1982

14y↑33

Freddie Hubbards' has to be one of the best solos ever... What a track!

@douglasmoore8250

5y↑14

I want to thank my father for waking me up on Saturday morning's to music like this...

@phyllispetras2181

5y↑2

YES! My Dad took me to a Stan Kenton concert at age ten. No turning back.

@dubbz1

5y↑36

This is one of the most beautiful jazz tunes ever written and performed.

@lateforthesky61

13y↑13

Five of the greatest jazz musicians of all time playing Herbie's masterpiece .... this IS a song for your mind/body/spirit-- the very soul of humanity. Art that informs and gives dignity to our lives. It is perfection.

@charlesbarry6730

5y↑40

One of the great modal jazz recordings. A landmark album.Great musicians.

@maggiessong

3y↑1

Agreed. A Landmark

@derekcarter5409

Absofreakinlootly ya digg

@hairbraidingschool

14y↑11

This song takes to a beautiful place every time. It is also very modern even though it is as old as dirt. I love.

@GeneRecords

11y↑152

This song never, ever gets old.

@carlbowles1808

4y↑7

It's been 40 years I'm still enchanted by this. I still see the sea shore.

@olivierborten1546

4y↑2

@Carl Bowles I'm French and live in the Philippines. And, yes.

@daniellakaran5760

4y↑2

@Carl Bowles More to 55 years

@mboloanio

2y↑1

Done said that in 1987 in the back of my dad's Dodge Caravan listening to it on a cassette.

@NuisanceMan

Hence, the title.

@sohooded

14y↑111

This is one of the most gorgeous and soulful songs ever written by Herbie. It makes me so nostaligic for the 60s and Slug's Saloon in New York City.

@lienardia

4y↑5

Slug’s! My first live jazz was seeing Tony Williams Lifetime with John McLaughlin and Khalid Yassin there in 1969....complete revolution in my brain....a few months later Lee Morgan was shot by his wife at Slug’s.

@northbuster290

3y↑6

Mate, your comment is 11 years old, time goes by so fast.

@davidtrotman5990

1y↑1

I saw Larry Coryell at Slugs. Tony Williams' Lifetime at at a place on Manhattan's west side circa 70th street, Ungano's.

@robertwedmore664

1y↑1

Sounds like a cool bar dig the jazz

@CaptainCreature

6y↑11

Freddie Hubbard is such an amazing improvisationist. He sounds like he's talking

@jaiyalireese5401

7y↑13

I'm 74 and have been listening to jazz since 1957.
Every musician on this album is one of my favorites
and always will be because they express my inner self so good... Peace 🏵🐂

@sdgakatbk

9y↑38

Not only is this song great, it transcends and maybe transforms. I often have to stop what I'm doing and listen when a song as good as this comes on. And sometimes after listening, (especially at work), I have to ask myself "what the heck am I doing with my life?". And that from a blown away state.

@sohooded

8y↑1

Well said...I agree with your feelings about this magnificent song....

@Behutet93

7y↑4

I recall 1st hearing it on underground FM back in the late sixties on KSAN or KMPX in the Bay Area. A timeless piece to enjoy while at work. I'm 64 now and wondering where all the time went. My 2nd marriage is crumbling but I still got music.

@DANTEANDOLINI

3y↑5

Herbie. A real innovator. Will go down in history for changing music. Feddie is just my favourite trumpet player. love his nuanced to power blowing.

@robscheps7722

3y↑16

One of the must have jazz records. a classic, and Tony's cymbals sound great.

@2330Silk

6y↑7

This remains the most beautiful and hypnotizing music I've ever heard. Bought this LP decades ago. I play it whenever I can for people who have never heard it.

@Vink420

6y↑17

It's incredible to think about how songs like this convey so much thoughts and emotions without a single word

@carlclarke5351

3y↑2

Excellent observation!👍🏽

@nickgrant6934

6y↑2

Dunno how many dozens of times I have played this on vinyl and Cd but I absolutely find it fresh and beguiling every time.

@gregorysutton381

5y↑14

This tune is hypnotic masterpiece.

@stewbie59

14y↑5

You can't deny the artistry of this cut. It will forever stand the test of time. Excellent!

@lapicker1010

2y↑4

This brings back fond memories of many late night listening sessions when I was a music major back in the early 70’s.

@bjazzer795

14y↑11

Masterful. Herbie is undoubtedly one of the best musicians of the 20th century.

@sharronmuhammad

13y↑12

...man oh man this piece reminds me of when I was growing up in East Oakland, my dad played it along with all his other classic, vintage jazz collection. I was five in sixty-five! Long live Mr. Hancock!

@charleshorvath3920

4y↑19

Never heard this original version,BUT WOW!! What a masterpiece!! Transcendent, timeless Beauty!! Play on!!

@mummm-yj1rl

5y↑7

MR. HERBIE HANCOCK A TRUE MASTER ON THE KEYS SO UNFORGETTABLE

@jazzbass8326

3y↑5

Love Herbie ! An American Musical Treasure ! This Masterpiece represents the greatness of the mid 60s Blue Note era.

@lavern2219

5y↑8

Freddie Hubbard is astounding.

@fluffshepnetwork7067

He effortlessly dances around the different chords and modes. Kind of like how a drummer rolls in and out of patterns of 5, 6, 11, and 13.

@jonathanguitar27

12y↑13

this has to be one of my favorite jazz compositions its so inspiring and it just moves me, and you cant lose with an allstar lineup like that.

@Tubemanjac

And did you work it out over the last 10 years? 🤪😄

@azaelemidio5859

46w

@@Tubemanjac Time flies!

@abrahampalmer1153

7y↑6

one of the best albums I ever heard in my lifetime. many albums can't compare the mellow and uniqueness of this beautiful masterpiece thanks to Herbie Hancock.

@Scottjazz55

4y↑6

Tony Williams so young at the time. Playing eight note off beats sometimes with his ride (and bass). Thank God he was too young to know "you can't play that" ! I'll never forget hearing him come in and out of the pulse. especially at the end of Freddie's solo. Truly a first.

@tomasvanecek8626

38w

A really great drummer protects the beat, inside

@DunkingDurant35

5y↑7

This, "Stolen Moments," and "Red Clay" are jazz compositions I always return to. The trumpeter, Freddie Hubbard, is on all of them. I'm reminded of how in classical, I keep going back to works played specifically by Arthur Rubinstein. Hubbard is to the trumpet what Rubinstein is to the piano: exquisite technique and tonal range on their respective instruments. It's a very distinctive quality in music that really resonates with me and makes me want to listen again and again so I can hear it in all its detail and fullness.

@thomaslaplante-goulet7300

4y↑4

Best trumpet solo of all time. Easy. Ungodly chops and groove

@lapicker1010

3y↑3

This was a staple of many late night post rehearsal listening sessions when I was a music major back in the early 70’s. Brings back so many fond memories of a wonderful time in my life.

@afrosheen6

13y↑4

Amazing how sound can be shaped to create images in ones mind. Herbie is a painter, sound is his medium. End result, jazz. Art for the mind...

@mozellephilpart1726

Great comment!😊🎹

@azaelemidio5859

46w

I think the same. The harmonic progression creates in us an abstract image, and at the same time, understandable. All chords used are suspended, the feeling of sad or joyful passing through the voices of the chord are even more subjective.

@beargrizzly7551

4y↑13

Both Hubbard's and Coleman's work on this is beyond belief, and I am an admirer of both of their work outside of this context. How the relatively young Hancock conjured these performances out of his co-musicians is a mystery but I am eternally grateful that he did. I remember NOT buying this album in the 1960s. What an idiot I was.

@lynne1698

8y↑47

The best, just have to hear this at LEAST once a week.............sometimes i don't realize how lucky i am to have music like this in my collection, and to have been surrounded by it............

@kennethmoss7394

8y↑37

Smooth and haunting! Like a wonderful high you don"t want to come down from

@thiagosousa2217

6y↑7

Sem dúvidas um dos melhores discos de Jazz de todos os tempos. Cadê os fãs brasileiros de Herbie Hancock?

@brunotonisi

ainda

@marckdias

A boa música nos transporta. Conexão divina.

@robertmaimone8733

2y↑1

Good times, right before Nam, being free is Sweet, this song is food for the soul, God Bless!

@billflanagan1412

5y↑426

When I was in college I discovered pot and this song at the same time and I have been thankful ever since.

@hamiltonmays4256

4y↑11

Fantastic. I had been getting high for years before I first heard this album, but it still made a real impact on me. I think that's saying something considering it was competing with Weather Report, PMG, the Brecker Brothers, and a bunch of other monster players on Inner City, ECM, Arista, etc. Listening to this album as a teenager helped to take me where I want to go as a musician, and so I've been thankful ever since, too. Peace and hair grease.
P.S. Going to listen to Dolphin Dance now, and maybe The Dolphin (Luiz Eca) after that.

@hezekiahdaggett2179

4y↑2

Lmao

@sfischer257

4y↑16

@იყავი საკუთარი თავი what has him smoking pot and listening to music to do with your tax dollars? i make a lot and still enjoy my pot and music

@brainsareus

4y↑2

You found Nirvana and Black Ivory Jesus...
consider yerself lucky

@brainsareus

4y↑1

@იყავი საკუთარი თავი
A Cigar would be a Cubano... A Cubana, would have a pulse[among other things].
Te fumaste un Tabaco Cubano.

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@domoniqueayers6416

5y↑3

HERBIE HANCOCK IS A TRUE MASTER
ON THE KEYS AND ALL OF HIS MUSIC

IS MADE TO PERFECTION TO ENTERTAIN ALL HIS MUSIC

CONNOISSEURS W/A COMBINATION
OF ALL MASTERPIECES, & A GREAT JOB SO WELL ORCHESTRATED

@l.angellove15

4y↑2

NOW THIS ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY MASTERPIECE

THAT'S TRULY GENUINE, MOST
VALUEABLE AND UNFORGETTABLE

@beatricedupont1817

4y↑3

My deceased Uncle Reggie introduced me to jazz when I was 14 years old. This was one of his favorites.

@renepythoud1565

Reggie Workman ?

@bobmcrae5939

23w↑1

This was the first jazz album I ever bought. It never gets old.

@kelinaayers295

6y↑11

TRUE MASTER CREATIVELY DESIGN, WITH STRUCTURE,
AND TO DISPLAY GREAT TALENT

FOR ALL THEIR MUSIC CONNOISSEURS

@leafygreensmusic2114

11y↑1

Played this tune a billion times...couldn't remember the name...very glad I eventually did. Great piece!

@melanie-cg4is

the horn is a beautiful instrument together with the piano 🎹 💿 classic

@ryuna

13y↑4

Pure poetry. My first copy was an L.P. record. This is my 3rd CD, as I keep giving away copies to friends.......wonderful.

@abdul-rahmanmuhammad6076

6y↑1

The sound of this " CLASSIC " is simply " MAGNIFICENT, " I grew up listening 2 this true definition of "JAZZ "...!!! Thanx Mr.Hancock Mr. Coltrane, Mr.Davis,Mr.Harris Mr.Morgan, Mr.Gillespie,Mr.Gordon, Mr. Brubeck...!!! U all get the Message.

@s.eberhardt843

2y↑3

This one can carry me through the day into evening - play mode repeat track…Offering peace to each piece of the mind, body and soul

@l.angellove15

4y↑5

@lambdaman3228

Why all caps?

@michellemartin8654

3y↑4

Completely soothing, instruments coming alive!

@l.angellove1079

5y↑3

@domoniqueayers8056

5y↑15

MR. HERBIE HANCOCK A TRUE MASTER ON THE KEYS, HE PLAYS
EXTREMELY WELL,

AND THIS IS ONE AMAZING MASTERPIECE ALSO W/
MR. FREDDIE HUBBARD ON TRUMPET, MR. GEORGE COLEMAN ON TENOR SAX & RON CARTER ON
BASS,

@lambdaman3228

4y↑1

Why all caps though?

@rotato2245

@lambdaman maybe his caps lock was stuck

@001Tara1

13y↑7

Modal playing like this allows such freedom with extended melodies, almost meditative. And very interesting harmonies between the horns - any two notes of that dorian scale would go well together. A favorite!

@azaelemidio5859

46w

Sometimes I wonder what went through Herbie's head to create a theme entirely with suspended chords. Maiden Voyage is a unique theme in the world of Jazz for its "tonal vagueness".

@ESKreitzer

7y↑314

My nine year old son cannot stop listening to this.

@brucewickham8630

6y↑22

What a boy!

@pierpalumbo415

todo cierto...

@jeanfourcade

6y↑11

you must be very proud. What is he listening to, now?

@lukakapanadze6179

5y↑16

@jeanfourcade To Takeshi69 :D

@br5448

5y↑10

there is hope

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@carlbowles1808

4y↑7

Every one here is a star in his own right.
This song my favorite Herbie Hancock tune.
Herbie Hancock said right off, this is his favorite song. Herbie wrote this for a TV cologne commercial.
I love this decades later.💖💝🙏🇱🇷🎵👍😂🌅😇💰😆.

@liveecarbme

8y↑28

To this day one of my alltime favorite albums. I think I'll want this album played at my memorial. Low, in the background... easy on the ears.

@myrthogabriel1637

3y↑2

Herbie, you wrote this masterpiece on a starry night with a little help from heaven. All great musicians & Freddie Hubbard's trumpet is so visceral

@kushkagirl

7y↑3

This lp, Speak Like a Child, and a Monk record were the first jazz lps I got at age 15 in Greenwich Village, NYC when I asked the music store owner to recommend something. God bless him, I was on my way...

@SidLaw500

5y↑3

Classic cut and Freddie lays down an iconic solo.

@michaelbirke6050

2y↑1

Its so nice to read all the comments about this song. How amazing it touched so many people in the same way.

@sohooded

8y↑54

1965, New York City, the St. George Hotel...Herbie and Maiden Voyage comes on the radio...we all stop to listen ..and pay our respects......

@pectenmaximus231

5y↑3

@alterdestiny respectfully disagree. So much amazing music exists now. Just have to look a bit. But you did in those days too, it wasn't all Maiden Voyage. Can't go clinging to the past or we miss the great things of the present. Things change, buildings come down and go up, musicians live and they die. The beauty isn't what was created, it's the act of creation. Jazz has plenty of brilliant rising stars in the states and around the globe. The UK has my favorite contributors at the present moment. Hope you accept my humble thoughts.

@btinsley1

5y↑3

@Marcus Schiebold LOL...i hope you're truly listening to your own words. 35 years from now, some whipper-snapper is going to minimize your complaint with that cliched' "you have to look for it...things change" parrot-talk as if they can relate to your past...a past they never experienced...when it does, i want you to humbly take your medicine without complaint or comment. live long enough...you'll make rose-colored comparisons too.

@charlesbeasley360

5 bad asses throwing down gauntlet so sensually!! Tony Williams truly playing the kit with tremendous musical sensitivity!!

@danieldowcoldchillin

2y↑1

Good cut !! Still jamming this in 2022 😎

@kingdombound5574

2y↑1

Definitely a classic. Moved by all the fine comments. In the mid 70's I had a Mark IV Lincoln, with Moon Roof, and this was the tune I played at the start of trips out of town. I'd imagine I'm driving a ship on a voyage, leaving the harbor. Lol.

@domoniqueayers153

6y↑4

@GodasRod

4y↑1

My dad played this, however, I appreciated it more hanging out with my departed best friend Bobby Walker...of Yellow Springs Ohio... he ad a great jazz show at Antioch College- Jazz From The Village- Sunday nights in the late 1970's and early 1980's. I hear this and reminiscence to snowy winter nights playing backgammon, getting Ha Ha pizza or going to Young's Dairy farm for late night day old donuts!
Thanks Herbie! Thanks Bobby!!

@GodasRod

he's over a year into his voyage already, and how wonderful the positive memories triggered by great music -both eternal!

@flyersrule76

2y↑5

Every damn song on this album is astounding. One of my all-time fave 80s records.

@frankrusk6172

2y↑2

I was listening to this in the 60's

@pulimolti

5y↑1

How could Freddie Hubbard exist?
what a light!

@conradmason87

9y↑15

Beautiful fourths!

@blktuffguy2000

10y↑15

to me this is the best song herbie hancock ever done. he's ok by himself but when you surround him with guys like this. wow and George Coleman is killing it!!!!

@blktuffguy2000

10y↑3

and wont even talk about Freddie hubbard, he's giving miles davis a run for his money on this. Best band Herbie ever played with hands down. This is herbie playing at his best

@jonp4846

5y↑2

I saw an interview with Herbie, where he said he felt this was his best composition.

@dwightmoore6431

7y↑15

I love this tune I played it on my bass trombone me and a few of my friends, had loads of fun we were all high still jammin

@insaneevillogan

Oooooh the bass bone that would sound real good over this one 🙌

@zenbooter

9y↑1

a hundred years of fresh bright moments, what a century to live through. And to love Jazz. To have a soul. TYL.

@organickem

29w

Thanks Herbie. I am a doctor and when med school studying got rough, I put this on my turntable and felt I much better

@buddylove2835

4y↑2

I first heard this track around 1979, I was 19 at that time, Jazz tracks like this would turn my thoughts into a kind of creative kaleidoscope of beautiful colours, I saw Herbie Hancock live around the same time in Manchester UK.

@miltonlepaulhavisI

5y↑2

Loved this song since I was 6 years old, 54 years ago!!!!

@phyllispetras2181

5y↑1

62 years ago for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@monicadiamond1389

9y↑86

Just watched a short Bio on Herbie on KCET. It began in Herbie's studio within his home then moved to his living room where his piano was. He began playing Maiden Voyage. He was asked how he came up with this tune.He said it was originally for a mens cologne commercial. He wrote the tune on a napkin while flying then lost it somewhere along the way. The tune came back to mind later and he officially wrote it in it's entirety. Classic!

@rjam1974

9y↑6

I know this is impossible but what if someone ever found the napkin and knew whose song tune it was smh

@ronaldjohnson2238

9y↑6

Roger James They still wouldn't be able to play it like Herbie Hancock.

@monicadiamond1389

9y↑1

Amen to that!

@johniorio1008

9y↑2

Monica Diamond heard he wrote while on a cruise around new york harbor with his 14 yr old mistress

@walterbower2699

So thats how he came up with Headhunters !!

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@jefflanaghan6327

8y↑19

Great composition and fantastic playing by 5 great musicians. With a bit of imagination, you can feel yourself leaving the boat slip, making your way out of the harbor, and reaching the open sea where the conditions vary between choppy and calm, and then return to port. Hard to believe there could be 40 dislikes for this classic.

@sabrinarichardson1075

This is a Beautiful song

@mozellephilpart1726

2y↑3

The 40 dislikes are not musicians because this is over the top beautiful!😊🎹 Classic! Timeless!

@christophercremer2864

Almost a good description

@mummm-yj1rl

5y↑2

@daniellakaran5760

4y↑2

As a 16 years old, I love this kind of songs idk why.

@kennethratcliff7518

I have absorbed this vibe since I was 16 years old. I heard Freddie Hubbard's " First Light" and I have been strung out on jazz since 1971. I just turned 62 in March.

@darrinhammond1046

5y↑1

It's ashame that young ppl don't know the history of this beautiful soulful sound an well written music from legends of that era

@levonpoe

9y↑133

There is something so spiritual and surreal about this piece. It is a predecessor of new age music. It actually brings the sound of the surf rolling on top of each other to life. This is a BEAUTIFUL composition.. One of my favorites

@ronaldjohnson2238

@andrewpatterson6870

9y↑2

Well said, Levon, well said...

@levonpoe

9y↑2

Andrew Patterson Thank you kind sir!

@zenbooter

9y↑5

Levon Peter Muhammad Salah Setyowan Poe I have always felt that way too, and of course I agree completely. Goin to look for Christo Redemtor.

@jazzerson7087

6y↑1

Even Herbie said it was his favourite composition!

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@lenorem.7889

9y↑3

Maiden Voyage. so loving this. Diggin Freddie on Trumpet

@goncasworld

12y↑3

This reminds me of a dream I had sometime ago, in the dream I was making a journey throughout the world... a wonderfull journey throughout country's, city's, mountains, oceans... Just an amazing journey.

@danm48

10y↑162

loved it but it didn't hurt to have

Freddie Hubbard — trumpet
George Coleman — tenor saxophone
Ron Carter — bass
Tony Williams — drums

@michaelfrenke6757

7y↑3

danm48 you told the whole damn truth

@petterv6604

Frank zappa is singing

@johnfolsomtroy

5y↑2

It certainly did not.

@williamnelson8578

5y↑1

Can't go wrong with this band. Don't know Coleman but he';s crazy good and the others are all the part of the old Playboy Jazz All Star fantasy group if you remember those. And this lovely song is one of the best jazz ballads ever written.

@80sruler

5y↑2

danm48 that’s some lineup

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@jaynall921

10y↑1

HERBIE AND FREDDIE!!! HOW CAN YOU NOT???

@recstoppauseplay

7y↑2

Such a wonderful timeless piece of music expertly played.

@joelmadden8251

3y↑3

Herbie has been.
A close friend and comrade for nearly 50.years i fell in love

@Montyrico_Outdoors

7y↑58

Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard are 2 of the most technically gifted trumpet players to ever live.

@hermanntsaju

4y↑4

Don't forget Woody Shaw

@johnnylow3295

4y↑1

An interesting generalisation. Both trumpet players mentioned are very talented however I will name drop Adam Rapa and Wynton Marsalis incase you don't know of them because they are also exceptional!