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The Piano (jazz album)

The Piano
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Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released LP: June 21 ,1979
CD: 2004
Recorded October 25–26, 1978
Studio CBS Studios, Tokyo
Genre Jazz
Length LP: 31:26
CD: 52:04
Label LP: CBS/Sony
CD: Columbia
Producer David Rubinson
Herbie Hancock
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Allmusic 4/5 stars

The Piano is the twenty-sixth album by Herbie Hancock.

As with Directstep (recorded one week previously), this album was recorded, and originally only released, in Japan. It was one of Hancock's most successful albums in Japan, perhaps because it was entirely solo piano. Hancock tackles Jazz standards such as "My Funny Valentine", "On Green Dolphin Street" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" while also composing/performing four original songs.

This album was initially released exclusively in Japan and first issued there on CD in 1983. In 2004, over 25 years after its recording, the album was released with four additional alternate takes of the same session. It was the first and only (until 2014) of Hancock's Japanese releases available internationally.

CBS/Sony – 30AP 1033


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