V.S.O.P. (group)
V.S.O.P. was an American jazz quintet consisting of Herbie Hancock (piano, keyboards, synthesizers, and vocals), Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone), Ron Carter (bass), Tony Williams (drums), and Freddie Hubbard (trumpet and flugelhorn). Hancock, Shorter, Carter, and Williams had all been members of Miles Davis' "Second Great Quintet" during the 1960s. The name V.S.O.P. is taken from a grade of Cognac brandy, where it signifies aged (and implicitly high quality) stock.
The group first came together at the 1976 Newport Jazz Festival to headline a Herbie Hancock retrospective concert, which featured the reunited Miles Davis Quintet (sans Davis, who had temporarily retired from music a year prior) alongside Hancock's contemporary fusion groups Mwandishi and the Headhunters. V.S.O.P. subsequently became a semi-regular touring band through the late 1970s, recording several live albums, but also released a studio album, Five Stars, in 1979. Allmusic's Richard Ginell suggested that the band's back-to-basics artistry helped lay the foundation for the 1980s post-bop and straight-ahead jazz revival.[1]
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Album details |
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| Five Stars |
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Live albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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| US [2] | US Jazz (Trad) [2] | ||||
| The Quintet |
| 123 | 3 | ||
| Tempest in the Colosseum |
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| Live Under the Sky |
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| Live Under the Sky, No. 2* |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
*This release was only the second CD coupled with the re-release of Live Under The Sky when it was released in the USA, so it was brought back to Japan.
See also
- VSOP (live album by Herbie Hancock)
References
External links
- V.S.O.P. on AllMusic
- V.S.O.P. discography on discogs.com
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- Inventions & Dimensions
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- Flood
- V.S.O.P.
- The Quintet (V.S.O.P.)
- Tempest in the Colosseum (V.S.O.P.)
- An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert
- CoreaHancock
- V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (V.S.O.P.)
- Jazz Africa
- Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
- Live: Detroit/Chicago
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- Out of This World (Pepper Adams Donald Byrd Quintet)
- Chant
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- Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock
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- "Cantaloupe Island"
- "Maiden Voyage"
- "Chameleon"
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- Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- Death Wish
- A Soldier's Story
- Round Midnight
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