Inventions & Dimensions LP fg_Catalog Number_S 45537 and Baker takes to piano

and Baker takes to piano rather than guitar on several tracks

though sunny “Amplifier” should shame all the lightweight singer-songwriter types into pawning Lucille and patching things up with their fathers

from its “quick draw” cover art to the songs it contains—“Big Iron

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Inventions & Dimensions LP fg_Catalog Number_S 45537 and Baker takes to pianoFor his third Blue Note album Inventions & Dimensions (1963), pianist Herbie Hancock began moving away from the modernist hard bop sound that defined his first two albums Takin' Off and My Point Of View. Inspired by explorers like Eric Dolphy and Tony Williams, Hancock went in search of greater musical freedom by composing a set of ingenious originals each with their own unique inner logic that did away with what he considered the established jazz