''Inventions & Dimensions'' is the third album by Herbie Hancock, recorded on August 30th, 1963 for Blue Note Records. It features Hancock with bassist

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and percussionists

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and Chihuahua Martinez. The album was reissued in the 1970s as ''Succotash,'' credited to Hancock and Bobo,Blue Note Records discography
accessed January 25, 2011 but with the sides reversed. ''Inventions & Dimensions'' is unusual in prominently featuring

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whilst not being a

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album, rather presenting Hancock's further exploration of

modal jazz Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece. Although precedents exist, modal jazz was crystallized as a theory by compose ...

and

post-bop Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid 1960s in the United States. Pioneers of the genre, such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane and Jackie McLean, crafted syntheses ...

idioms.

Track listing

All compositions by Herbie Hancock #"Succotash" – 7:40 #"Triangle" – 11:01 #"Jack Rabbit" – 5:57 #"Mimosa" – 8:38 #"A Jump Ahead" – 6:33 #"Mimosa" (alternate take) – 10:06 Bonus track on reissue

Personnel

*Herbie Hancock –

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– bass *

– drums,

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*Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez –

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(not on track 5)

References

1963 albums Herbie Hancock albums Albums produced by Alfred Lion Blue Note Records albums {{1960s-jazz-album-stub