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Empyrean Isles
Empyrean Isles
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released	November 1964
Recorded	June 17, 1964
Studio	Van Gelder Studio (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
Genre	Hard bop; modal jazz; soul jazz;
Length	35:20
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Alfred Lion
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Empyrean Isles is the fourth studio album by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released on Blue Note Records in November 1964.^[2]^[3] The album features Hancock alongside trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams.

Recording and composition

Empyrean Isles was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on June 17, 1964.^[4] Freddie Hubbard played cornet rather than his typical trumpet on the session.^[4] The four compositions on the album, including the future standard "Cantaloupe Island", are Hancock originals written over a two-year period.^[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]
Jazz Journal	^[6]
Jazzwise	^[7]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[8]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[9]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded Empyrean Isles four out of four stars.^[9]

AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album five out of five stars, calling it "a record that officially established Hancock as a major artist in his own right."^[5]

Track listing

Original release

All tracks are written by Herbie Hancock

Side 1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"One Finger Snap"	7:20
2.	"Oliloqui Valley"	8:28

Side 2
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cantaloupe Island"	5:32
2.	"The Egg"	14:00
Total length:		35:20

1999 CD reissue

All tracks are written by Herbie Hancock

No.	Title	Length
1.	"One Finger Snap"	7:20
2.	"Oliloqui Valley"	8:28
3.	"Cantaloupe Island"	5:32
4.	"The Egg"	14:00
5.	"One Finger Snap" (alternate take)	7:37
6.	"Oliloqui Valley" (alternate take)	10:47

Personnel

Herbie Hancock – piano
Freddie Hubbard – cornet
Ron Carter – double bass
Tony Williams – drums

Technical personnel

Alfred Lion – producer
Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
Reid Miles – design
Francis Wolff – photography
Nora Kelly – liner notes

Charts

Chart performance for *Empyrean Isles*
Chart (2023)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[10]	67

References

^ Billboard Dec 5, 1964
^ DiMartino, Dave (2016). Music in the 20th Century (3 Vol Set). Routledge. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-317-46430-3. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
^ Salzman, Jack; Smith, David L.; West, Cornel (1996). Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Macmillan Library Reference. p. 1185. ISBN 978-0-02-897365-4. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
^ ^a ^b Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles (CD liner notes). Blue Note Records. 98796.
^ ^a ^b ^c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "Empyrean Isles - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
^ Jones, Dave (20 June 2019). "Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles". Jazz Journal. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
^ Nicholson, Stuart. "Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles". Jazzwise. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 93. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 641. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 24, 2023.

[1] Billboard Dec 5, 1964

[2] DiMartino, Dave (2016). Music in the 20th Century (3 Vol Set). Routledge. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-317-46430-3. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

[3] Salzman, Jack; Smith, David L.; West, Cornel (1996). Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Macmillan Library Reference. p. 1185. ISBN 978-0-02-897365-4. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

[CD-4] Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles (CD liner notes). Blue Note Records. 98796.

[AM-5] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "Empyrean Isles - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2011.

[6] Jones, Dave (20 June 2019). "Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles". Jazz Journal. Retrieved 3 February 2024.

[7] Nicholson, Stuart. "Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles". Jazzwise. Retrieved 3 February 2024.

[RSJRG-8] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 93. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-9] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 641. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[ac_Germany4_Herbie_Hancock-10] "Offiziellecharts.de – Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 24, 2023.

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+'''''Empyrean Isles''''' is the fourth studio album by American [[jazz]] pianist [[Herbie Hancock]], released on [[Blue Note Records]] in November 1964.<ref>{{cite book |last1=DiMartino |first1=Dave |title=Music in the 20th Century (3 Vol Set) |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-46430-3 |page=273 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sB4GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA273 |access-date=16 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Salzman |first1=Jack |last2=Smith |first2=David L. |last3=West |first3=Cornel |title=Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History |date=1996 |publisher=Macmillan Library Reference |isbn=978-0-02-897365-4 |page=1185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T4QYAAAAIAAJ |access-date=16 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The album features Hancock alongside trumpeter [[Freddie Hubbard]], bassist [[Ron Carter]], and drummer [[Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams]].
-==Recording and music==
+==Recording and composition==
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+''Empyrean Isles'' was recorded at [[Van Gelder Studio]] in [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey]], on June 17, 1964.<ref name="CD">{{Cite AV media notes |title=Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles |publisher=Blue Note Records |type=CD liner notes |id=98796}}</ref> [[Freddie Hubbard]] played [[cornet]] rather than his typical trumpet on the session.<ref name="CD" /> The four compositions on the album, including the future [[Jazz standard|standard]] "[[Cantaloupe Island]]", are Hancock originals written over a two-year period.<ref name="AM" />
+==Reception==
-==Release and reception==
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+''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'' awarded ''Empyrean Isles'' four out of four stars.<ref name="Penguin" />
-''Empyrean Isles'' was released by [[Blue Note Records]].<ref name="Penguin" /> AllMusic reviewer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] called it "a record that officially established Hancock as a major artist in his own right."<ref name="AM" />
+[[AllMusic]] critic [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] gave the album five out of five stars, calling it "a record that officially established Hancock as a major artist in his own right."<ref name="AM" />
 ==Track listing==
-All compositions by Herbie Hancock
+=== Original release ===
 {{tracklist
+| all_writing = Herbie Hancock
-|title1= One Finger Snap
+| headline = Side 1
-|length1= 7:20
+| title1 = One Finger Snap
-|title2= Oliloqui Valley
-|length2= 8:28
+| length1 = 7:20
+| title2 = Oliloqui Valley
-|title3= [[Cantaloupe Island]]
-|length3= 5:32
+| length2 = 8:28
-|title4= The Egg
-|length4= 14:00
 }}
 {{tracklist
-|headline= Bonus tracks on 1999 CD release
+| headline = Side 2
+| title1 = [[Cantaloupe Island]]
-|title5= One Finger Snap
+| length1 = 5:32
-|note5= alternate take
+| title2 = The Egg
-|length5= 7:37
+| length2 = 14:00
-|title6= Oliloqui Valley
+| total_length = 35:20
-|note6= alternate take
+}}
-|length6= 10:47
+=== 1999 CD reissue ===
+{{tracklist
+| all_writing = Herbie Hancock
+| title1 = One Finger Snap
+| length1 = 7:20
+| title2 = Oliloqui Valley
+| length2 = 8:28
+| title3 = [[Cantaloupe Island]]
+| length3 = 5:32
+| title4 = The Egg
+| length4 = 14:00
+| title5 = One Finger Snap
+| note5 = alternate take
+| length5 = 7:37
+| title6 = Oliloqui Valley
+| note6 = alternate take
+| length6 = 10:47
 }}
 ==Personnel==
 *[[Herbie Hancock]] – piano
-*[[Freddie Hubbard]] – cornet
+*[[Freddie Hubbard]] – [[cornet]]
-*[[Ron Carter]] – bass
+*[[Ron Carter]] – double bass
 *[[Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams]] – drums
+=== Technical personnel ===
+* [[Alfred Lion]] – producer
+* [[Rudy Van Gelder]] – engineer
+* [[Reid Miles]] – design
+* [[Francis Wolff]] – photography
+* Nora Kelly – liner notes
+==Charts==
+{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
+|+ Chart performance for ''Empyrean Isles''
+! scope="col"| Chart (2023)
+! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position
+|-
+{{album chart|Germany4|67|id=105038|artist=Herbie Hancock|album=Empyrean Isles|rowheader=true|access-date=March 24, 2023}}
+|}
 ==References==

v t e Herbie Hancock
Discography (As a sideman or guest artist)
Studio albums	Takin' Off My Point of View Inventions & Dimensions Empyrean Isles Maiden Voyage Speak Like a Child The Prisoner Fat Albert Rotunda Mwandishi Crossings Sextant Head Hunters Dedication Thrust Man-Child Secrets Third Plane Herbie Hancock Trio Sunlight Directstep The Piano Feets, Don't Fail Me Now Monster Mr. Hands Magic Windows Herbie Hancock Trio Lite Me Up Quartet Future Shock Sound-System Village Life Perfect Machine A Tribute to Miles Dis Is da Drum The New Standard 1+1 Gershwin's World Future 2 Future Possibilities River: The Joni Letters The Imagine Project
Live albums	Hear, O Israel - A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz 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
with Bob Brookmeyer	Bob Brookmeyer and Friends
with Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams	Out of This World (Pepper Adams Donald Byrd Quintet) Chant Royal Flush Free Form A New Perspective
with Miles Davis	Seven Steps to Heaven My Funny Valentine Four & More E.S.P. Miles Smiles Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles in the Sky Water Babies Filles de Kilimanjaro In a Silent Way Jack Johnson On the Corner Big Fun Get Up with It
with Jack DeJohnette and Pat Metheny	Parallel Realities
with Joe Farrell	Moon Germs Penny Arcade Upon This Rock Night Dancing
with Freddie Hubbard	Hub-Tones Straight Life Red Clay
with Joe Zawinul	Zawinul
Compilations	Treasure Chest (Herbie Hancock album) The Best of Herbie Hancock Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock The Essential Herbie Hancock
Compositions	"Watermelon Man" "Cantaloupe Island" "Maiden Voyage" "Chameleon" "Rockit"
Soundtracks	Blow-Up Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert The Spook Who Sat by the Door Death Wish A Soldier's Story Round Midnight Action Jackson

v t e Freddie Hubbard
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Open Sesame (1960) Goin' Up (1960) Hub Cap (1961) Minor Mishap/Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson, 1961) Ready for Freddie (1961) The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962) Hub-Tones (1962) Here to Stay (1962) The Body & the Soul (1963) Breaking Point! (1964) Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath, 1965) The Night of the Cookers (1965) Blue Spirits (1965–66) Backlash (1966) High Blues Pressure (1967) A Soul Experiment (1968–69) The Black Angel (1969) The Hub of Hubbard (1970) Red Clay (1970) Straight Life (1970) Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970) First Light (1971) Polar AC (1971–73) Sky Dive (1972) Keep Your Soul Together (1973) Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973) In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine, 1974) High Energy (1974) Gleam (1975) Liquid Love (1975) Windjammer (1976) Bundle of Joy (1977) Super Blue (1978) The Love Connection (1979) Skagly (1979) Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, 1980) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980) Born to Be Blue (1981) Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981) Outpost (1981) Rollin' (1981) Splash (1981) Above & Beyond (1982) Back to Birdland (1982) Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982) Ride Like the Wind (1982) The Rose Tattoo (1983) Sweet Return (1983) Double Take (with Woody Shaw, 1985) Life Flight (1987) The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987) Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988) Times Are Changing (1989) Topsy – Standard Book (1989) Bolivia (1990–91) At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991) Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991) Blues for Miles (1992) MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95) New Colors (2000) On the Real Side (2007)
With Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers	Mosaic (1961) Buhaina's Delight (1961) Blues March (1961) Three Blind Mice (1961) Caravan (1962) Ugetsu (1963) Kyoto (1964) Free for All (1964) Golden Boy (1965) Soul Finger (1965)
With Dexter Gordon	Doin' Allright (1961) Clubhouse (1965) Generation (1973) The Other Side of Round Midnight (1986)
With Herbie Hancock	Takin' Off (1962) Empyrean Isles (1964) Maiden Voyage (1965) Blow-Up (soundtrack album, 1966) V.S.O.P. (1977) V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977) V.S.O.P. Tempest in the Colosseum (1977) V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (1977) Round Midnight (soundtrack album, 1985)
With Bobby Hutcherson	Dialogue (1965) Components (1965) Knucklebean (1977) Highway One (1978)
With Quincy Jones	I Dig Dancers (1960) The Quintessence (1962) Golden Boy (1964) I/We Had a Ball (1964–65) Walking in Space (1969) Gula Matari (1970)
With Wayne Shorter	Wayning Moments (1961) Speak No Evil (1964) The Soothsayer (1965) The All Seeing Eye (1965)
With others	The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966) The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969) Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960) True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960) God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell, 1971) Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979) Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990) Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960) Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961) Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961) Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965) Muses for Richard Davis (1969) Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960) Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964) Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960) Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973) Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967) Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962) Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960) Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962) Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961) Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962) Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959) Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961) Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962) Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996) Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965) Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965) Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972) Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973) 52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978) Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988) J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960) Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982) Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62) Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979) Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963) Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961) MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994) Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958) Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960) The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961) Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966) The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967) Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965) Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965) East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966) Numbers (Rufus, 1978) Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965) Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973) Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970) Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978) Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980) Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960) Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)