Herbie Hancock
Piano Solo on
El Gaucho

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Herbie Hancock's piano solo closes out the improvised statements on this recording, following Wayne Shorter's tenor sax. Spanning five choruses of the 18-Bar form at a medium-up 187 BPM with a latin feel in F, the solo runs approximately 1:56. Herbie Hancock follows with five choruses of piano, his modal explorations complementing the composition's exotic harmonic palette. "El Gaucho" from Wayne Shorter's 1966 album Adam's Apple is a mysterious Latin-tinged composition built on an unusual 18-bar form in F that reflects Shorter's fascination with unconventional structures. Herbie Hancock was 25 to 26 years old at the time of this 1966 recording.

Herbie Hancock was 25 to 26 years old at the time.