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Sextant is the eleventh studio album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 by Columbia. It is the last album with the Mwandishi-era sextet featuring saxophonist Bennie Maupin, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, trombonist Julian Priester, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Billy Hart. Synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson and percussionist Buck Clarke also appear.

Sextant
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released	30 March 1973
Recorded	late 1972
Studio	Wally Heider (San Francisco) Different Fur (San Francisco)
Genre	Jazz fusion[1] avant-funk[2] jazz-rock[3]
Length	39:02
Label	Columbia
Producer	David Rubinson
Herbie Hancock chronology
Crossings (1972) Sextant (1973) Head Hunters (1973)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
Julian Cope	(favorable)[5]
Rolling Stone 1998	[3]
Rolling Stone 2004	[6]
Uppity Music	(favorable)[7]
Virgin Encyclopedia	[8]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[8]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[9]

Background

Released on 30 March 1973, Sextant was Herbie Hancock's first album on Columbia Records,[3] and the last with his Mwandishi-era group. The album showcased Hancock's early adoption of synthesizers and electronic effects.[3]

Upon release, the record was considered to be a commercial flop.[3]

Critical reception

AllMusic called the album a "gem" which features "a kind of post-modal, free impressionism while gracing the edges of funk."[4] Rolling Stone wrote that, "taking his cue from [Miles] Davis' swirling, anarchic Bitches Brew and On the Corner, Hancock went even further into outer space [...] much of Sextant, with its twittering, burbling effects, amounts to a primitive version of Nineties ambient music."[3] The album was called an "uncompromising avant-funk masterpiece" by Paste Magazine.[2]

Track listing

All songs by Herbie Hancock

Personnel

• Mwandishi (Herbie Hancock) – piano, Fender Rhodes, clavinet, Mellotron, ARP 2600, ARP Pro Soloist, Moog synthesizer
• Mwile (Bennie Maupin) – soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, piccolo, afuche
• Mganga (Eddie Henderson) – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Pepo (Julian Priester) – bass trombone, tenor trombone, alto trombone, cowbell
• Mchezaji (Buster Williams) – bass guitar, double bass
• Jabali (Billy Hart) – drums
• Patrick Gleeson – ARP 2600, ARP Pro Soloist
• Buck Clarke – percussion

References

External links

• Sextant at Discogs

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[de] Sextant (Album)

Sextant ist das elfte Studioalbum von Herbie Hancock. Es wurde am 30. März 1973 bei Columbia Records veröffentlicht. Die Aufnahmen zum Album fanden im Dezember 1972 in den Wally Heider Studios und Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, Kalifornien, statt.[1]

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