Herbie Hancock / The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-88

Sony will release The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972 – 1988, a Herbie Hancock box set featuring 34 remastered CDs, on 11 November 2013.

This output represents all the recordings by the keyboardist and bandleader during that 17-year period when signed to Columbia Records in the US and CBS / Sony in Japan. Of the 31 albums included here, eight have never been released outside Japan. Additionally, three LPs have never been on CD, they are Sunlight, Magic Windows, and Lite Me Up.

Expect the CD packaging to match what has come before with Johnny Cash and Blue Oyster Cult, with some gatefold sleeves mixed in with single card wallets. This set comes with a 200-page book (similar in size to one in the Johnny Cash box) that contains complete discographical data, mini-histories of each album, and an essay (as well as plenty of photos).

The box also dispenses with Sony’s favoured clamshell design (probably due to the number of CDs) and instead offers a Japanese-style mini-LP CD container, with an inner box sliding into an outer slip case.

• • UK Pre-order: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection 1972-88
• • USA Pre-order: The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-88
• • CANADA Pre-order: Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-88
• • GERMANY Pre-order: The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-88

Albums in the box:

• 1. Sextant (1973)
• 2. Head Hunters (1973)
• 3. Dedication (1974)*
• 4. Thrust (1974)
• 5. Death Wish /OST (1974)
• 6. Flood (1975)*
• 7. Man-Child (1975)
• 8. Secrets (1976)
• 9. V.S.O.P. (1976 – 2CDs )
• 10. Herbie Hancock Trio (1977)*
• 11. V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977)
• 12. V.S.O.P.: Tempest In The Colosseum (1977)*
• 13. An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea (1978 – 2 CDs)
• 14. Sunlight (1978)
• 15. Feets Don’t Fail Me Now (1978)
• 16. Direct Step (1978)*
• 17. The Piano (1978)
• 18. V.S.O.P.: Live Under The Sky (1979 – 2 CDs)
• 19. V.S.O.P.: Five Stars (1979)*
• 20. Butterfly w/ Kimiko Kasai (1979)*
• 21. Monster (1980)
• 22. Mr. Hands (1980)
• 23. Magic Windows (1981)
• 24. Herbie Hancock Trio w/ Ron Carter + Tony Williams (1981)*
• 25. Herbie Hancock Quartet (1981)
• 26. Lite Me Up (1982)
• 27. Future Shock (1983)
• 28. Sound-System (1984)
• 29. Village Life (1984)
• 30. Round Midnight / OST (1985)
• 31. Perfect Machine (1988)

* First time on CD outside of Japan.