Apesar de gravar albums brilhantes para a Blue Note desde 1961, Speak Like A Child foi criado logo depois de ter deixado o Quinteto Miles Davis e se ter tornado uma poderosa força musical como líder da sua própria banda. Speak Like A Child era a visão musical de Hancock, a música que sonhara durante anos. Masterização audiófila definitiva por Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman das Master Tapes Originais!

Beleza sonhadora, mas também criativa e intensa, com instrumentação complexa sem perder a leveza e fluidez, como uma criança. Album perfeito da mente genial de Herbie Hancock e da sua mestria do piano. Música imprescindível com o melhor som de sempre!

The tonalities and harmonies were achieved by voicing together the unique frontline of flugelhorn, bass trombone and alto flute, and the results are quite dreamlike. Speak Like A Child welcomes listeners to the magical musical world of Herbie Hancock, a place where catchy melodies co-exist with his adventurous and utterly unpredictable solos, where his pent-up musical desires were finally being let loose, and where the haunting atmosphere is both calming and inwardly passionate. Nothing like this had ever been heard before, in jazz or in music.

"Speak Like a Child is a transitional album, in more ways than one. Originally released in 1968, it is only somewhat reflective of the rapidly changing musical and political fashions of the day. More to the point it spotlights a particularly emotive Herbie Hancock on the eve of his own transformation, looking backwards over the preceding decade with no small melancholy.

There will probably always be a breed of jazz purists who curse the day that jazz took note of the upstart rock and roll. Certainly, listening to the sophisticated and eminently satisfying post-bop swing on this disc, it's not hard to see how the advent of fusion just a year or two later could have been seen as a visceral betrayal. This is, for the most part, gentle and spry music, the sound of six confident musicians in easy rapport. The album title itself is an exhortation towards the past, and the song titles (the title track, 'Toys,' and 'Farewell to Childhood') tell a similar story of regretful maturity at odds with the perpetual impulse towards stasis and comfort." - PopMatters 2005

• Edição Limitada
• Apenas 1500 unidades não numeradas disponíveis mundialmente
• Remasterizado a partir das Master Tapes Originais Blue Note de Rudy Van Gelder
• Remasterizado por Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman na AcousTech
• Corte por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Duplo LP com corte a 45rpm para dinâmica superior
• Vinil Virgem 80 gramas prensado na RTI USA
• Capas Gatefold extra-grossas de ultra-durabilidade
• Capa gatefold Deluxe com fotos da sessão em alta resolução

Músicos:

Herbie Hancock, piano
Thad Jones, flugelhorn
Ron Carter, contrabaixo
Peter Phillips, trombone baixo
Jerry Douglas, flauta alto
Mickey Roker, bateria

Lista de Faixas:

1. Riot
2. Speak Like A Child
3. First Trip
4. Toys
5. Foodbye To Childhood
6. The Sorcerer

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