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Inventions & Dimensions

Herbie Hancock

Recorded	Aug 30, 1963
Label	Blue Note
Catalog	BLP 4147
Released	1963
Personnel	4 credited players
Discogs	master 163817

The record

A loose, largely improvised date built on Afro-Cuban rhythm rather than fixed heads, with Chambers, Bobo and Martinez pushing Hancock into open, percussive territory well outside hard bop convention. A telling detour before Empyrean Isles, showing how restless his Blue Note years already were.

Session personnel

Paul Chambers — bass
Osvaldo Martinez — congas, bongos
Willie Bobo — drums, timbales
Herbie Hancock — piano

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

We hold no original-era LP for this title. The only entry on file is a 2019 stereo listing with no catalogue number and no country attached -- a placeholder, not a record you can go and identify. Nothing here will help you tell an early Blue Note from a later reissue, so verify any copy you are offered against its label, jacket and matrix before paying original money.

2005	Blue Note · 7243 5 63799 2 3 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
2005	Blue Note · 7243 5 63798 2 4 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
2005	Blue Note · 7243 5 63799 2 3 — CD, Album, Copy Protected, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
2019	Blue Note · UCCQ-9444 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, UHQCD · RVG stamp
—	Blue Note · 7243 5 63799 2 3 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
2019	Blue Note — STEREO
2023	Blue Note · UCCU-6316 — CD, Album, Reissue, SHM-CD