Cantaloupe Island

Cantaloupe Iceland is a jazz standard by Herbie Hancock, which was first published in 1964.

The title is assigned to the modal jazz, and has elements of the radio on. It uses only three chords: F minor, D flat major (as seventh), D minor.

Images of Hancock

The title was first released on the album Empyrean Isles ( Blue Note ) in the year 1964 and include - in addition shots like Rockit (1983) and Watermelon Man (1962 ) - Today, Hancock's well- known pieces. He was recorded in the cast: Herbie Hancock (piano), Freddie Hubbard (cornet ), Ron Carter ( bass), Tony Williams (drums). With Williams and Carter Hancock played since 1963 with Miles Davis ( Miles Davis in Europe, Columbia, 1993); from 1965 they formed with Wayne Shorter, the so-called " second great Miles Davis Quintet " with which images such as ESP (1965 ), Sorcerer ( 1967) and Nefertiti (1967 ) were recorded. Was produced the recording, which was established on June 17, 1964 in the studio of Rudy Van Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, by Blue Note founder Alfred Lion. The recording has a length of 5:30 minutes.

The jazz critic and historian Ted Gioia wrote on jazz.com about the title:

"This is one of the funkiest acoustic jazz recordings of their time [ ... ] Hancock's piano figure drives the band, and Hubbard wearing one of his most remarkable solos with. Forget Gilligan's Crusoe or boring beach ... the nightlife is on, Cantaloupe Iceland ' better. "

With Cantelope Iceland from funk-fusion album Secrets (Columbia Records, 1976) Hancock published a modified version of Cantaloupe Iceland. About the recording, which was created by Wah Wah Watson and Bennie Maupin, Richard S. Ginell of Allmusic.com wrote:

" Once again, Hancock decided to re- implement one of its own standards;, Cantelope [sic ] Iceland ' has been transformed almost unrecognizable in a rumbling, schwadronierendes something. "

Also some live recordings were known. This includes a four hands version to " accompanies himself " in the Hancock at the Munich Piano Summer on July 15, 1988, to a Bösendorfer computer piano ( Herbie Hancock Special with Bobby McFerrin and Michael Brecker, 1988). Another recording was made during the tour at Jack DeJohnettes album Parallel Realities, while Hancock played with DeJohnette (drums), Pat Metheny (guitar) and Dave Holland ( bass) at the Mellon Jazz Festival in Philadelphia on June 23, 1990 ( DeJohnette, Hancock, Holland, Metheny in Concert, 2000).

Cantaloop by Us3

The British band Us3 ( Us3 featuring Rahsaan also published) took the title in 1993 under the name Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) in a hip-hop version out. Over a sample of the piano parts of Hancock doing a rap Rahsaan Kelly and a trumpet part of Gerard Persencer was recorded. Production was orchestrated, which is associated with the jazz - rap or Acid Jazz, by Geoff Wilkinson and Mel Simpson. The title with a sample of Birdland Announcer Pee Wee Marquette is initiated ( this announcement was originally on Art Blakey's A Night at Birdland ( Blue Note, 1954) to hear ).

Cantaloop was together with the album Hand on the Torch, which is a tribute to Blue Note and its founder Alfred Lion, the largest ever commercial success of the Blue Note label. In the U.S., the single reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, the album sold more than 1,000,000 times and thus went platinum in the UK, Japan and Canada, the album went gold. In an interview Hancock Cantaloupe Iceland jokingly as "something from a band called Us3 " announced at a concert to be expressed positively about this version: ". I thought it was pretty cool," Ron Wynn of Allmusic wrote in his review to hand on the Torch:

" ... When words and music mesh as on Cantaloop or The Dark Side, Us3 show how effectively can mix jazz and hip hop. "

Cantaloop gained especially through films (Super Mario Bros., 1993; Jimmy Hollywood, 1994 It Takes Two, 1995), television shows ( Willemsens week, ZDF, 1994-1998) and commercials ( Tassimo, 2005) a high global recognition. In Germany it was sold in the 1990s after a commercial for an ice cream company Schoeller also with the additional title The Song of Manhattan, while Manhattan was the name of the product to be advertised ice.

Other interpretations

• Nat Adderley: Sayin 'Somethin ' (Atlantic, 1966) *
• Kai Winding: Dirty Dog ( Verve, 1966) *
• Raul de Souza: International Hot ( what music, 1968)
• Jean -Luc Ponty Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio ( Blue Note, 1969)
• Mark Murphy Mark Murphy Sings ( Muse, 1975 Text: Mark Murphy)

• Tanghetto: el miedo a la libertad ( CONSTITUTION MUSIC, 2008) ( Electro Tango Version)
• Carmel McCourt: Every Little Bit, text and melody, 1987 metronomes,
• The Third Wave: The Third Wave, (MPS, 1969)

Footnotes

" This is one of the funkiest jazz acoustic performances of the era, [ ... ] Hancock 's piano vamp drives the band, and Hubbard Contributes one of his most memorable solos. Forget about Gilligan 's or Crusoe's boring beach front property ... the nightlife is better on, Cantaloupe Iceland '. "

Again Hancock chooses to recompose one of his standards;, Cantelope [sic ] Iceland 'is almost unrecognizable converted into a sauntering, swaggering thing.

" ... When words and music mesh, as on, Cantaloop 'or ' The Dark Side ', Us3 show how Effectively hip -hop and jazz can blend. "