1 + 1 (album)

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1 + 1
Herbie Hancock 1+1.jpg
Studio album by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter
Released 1 January 1997
Genre Post-bop
Free improvisation
Length 61:35
Label Verve Records
Polygram Records
Producer Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock chronology
The New Standard
(1995)The New Standard1995
1 + 1
(1997)
Gershwin's World
(1998)Gershwin's World1998
Wayne Shorter chronology
High Life
(1995)
1 + 1
(1997)
Footprints Live!
(2002)

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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

1 + 1 is a duet album by Herbie Hancock (piano) and Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone).

Hancock and Shorter perform ten compositions on the album, including the Grammy award winning "Aung San Suu Kyi", named after the Burmese pro-democracy activist of the same name, "Joanna's Theme" which originally was on Hancock's original soundtrack to the film Death Wish and "Diana", originally recorded for Shorter's album Native Dancer. It is Hancock's forty-first album and Shorter's twenty-first.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Meridianne – A Wood Sylph"   Shorter 6:09
2. "Aung San Suu Kyi"   Shorter 5:45
3. "Sonrisa"   Hancock 6:26
4. "Memory Of Enchantment"   Michiel Borstlap 6:20
5. "Visitor From Nowhere"   Hancock/Shorter 7:44
6. "Joanna's Theme"   Hancock 5:22
7. "Diana"   Shorter 5:32
8. "Visitor From Somewhere"   Hancock/Shorter 9:04
9. "Manhattan Lorelei"   Hancock/Shorter 7:22
10. "Hale Bopp, Hip-Hop"   Hancock 1:51

Personnel

References

  1. Ginell, Richard S.. 1 + 1 at AllMusic


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