This acclaimed live concert performance on DVD features Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter playing bass, and Billy Cobham pounding out rhythms on the drums. In this classic concert film the three musical masters explore their roots and capture the full spectrum of the art of Jazz, live from Switzerland. This spectacular full-length concert DVD is highlighted with displays of stellar musicianship, lyrical sensuality, and sizzling rhythmic pyrotechnics.

As alumni of Miles Davis, all three musicians contributed to the recognizable sound of Miles Davis' musical vision. Hancock's futuristic piano virtuosity fuses R&B influences with new electronic sounds as he helped invent Jazz / Funk and became one of the few Jazz greats to have multiple albums hit the charts, while his own compositions became standards to the Jazz repertoire. After receiving the prestigious Grammy Award for Album of the Year for his CD River: The Joni Letters, and his Grammy performance of the song Rockit, which helped give birth to the Scratch DJ culture, Hancock elevated his status as one of the greatest and most influential musicians alive.

Billy Cobham is one of the world's foremost drummers and percussionists. Having played on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, founded two of the most influential Fusion groups of all time, Dreams and the Mahuvishnu Orchestra (with guitarist John McLaughlin), and played with the Grateful Dead and the Saturday Night Live Band, Cobham is major percussionist in both the Jazz and Rock worlds and plays with a rare combination of power, precision and endurance.

Ron Carter, with his legendary style, unique tone, and impeccable sense of time, is considered the premiere bassist in modern Jazz. He has excelled as a composer, arranger, leader, and musician, having performed on well over 3,000 albums.

Complete with Dolby Audio, this special and historic Herbie Hancock DVD concert, Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!, features a night of spectacular compositions and improvisations that display the unforgettable and passionate interplay between Pianist Herbie Hancock, Bassist Ron Carter, and Drummer Billy Cobham, three Jazz masters on a search for musical excellence in this awesome DVD.

Selections include:
1. Eye of the Hurricane
2. First Trip
3. Willow Weep For Me
4. Dolphin Dance
5. Ili's Treasure
6. Princess
7. Walking

DVD BONUS FEATURES:
Bonus Unreleased Concert Selections of Speak Like A Child and Little Waltz
Herbie Hancock Biography
Ron Carter Biography
Billy Cobham Biography
Instant Access to Songs
Instant Access to Instrumental Solos
Trivia and Fun Facts Track
Test Your Jazz IQ
Dolby Digital Stereo Audio
Digitally Mastered Audio & Video

Average Customer Review: ( 5 customer reviews )
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First, the sound quality is mediocre. It's certainly good enough to enjoy the great playing. But it sounds like a copy of an analog copy of an analog master tape. There's a lot of background hiss, and when herbie plays a note or chord and holds it, the pitch is not perfectly steady - as if the analog tape player's motor is not passing the tape across the head at a perfectly constant rate.

Perhaps more importantly, we've heard a lot of this before. In the 1980s and 1990s, most (perhaps all) of Herbie's straight ahead jazz features selections from the same fairly narrow repetoire, with similar arrangements.

Now, don't get me wrong - the tunes are great, the arrangements are great, the solos are great. I certainly don't mean to offend any Herbie fans (and I'm a huge fan myself). But I have most of Herbie's CDs and DVDs, and I can tell you, the tunes and arrangements on this DVD are taken mostly from the same repetoire that has also yielded most of Herbie's other live straight ahead jazz recordings since the days of VSOP in the 1970s.

So, this title is definitely not "essential", and is probably better rented than purchased.

7 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Classic songs from a Classic Concert!Jul 16, 1999

Three of the best musicians in jazz, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Cobham join forces in this unique Swiss reunion concert, recorded in 1984, that features Hancock's "Dolphin Dance" and "Eye of the Hurricane." JazzTimes described the video as "nothing short of breathtaking... In all, a classic!"

# 1329 (60 min, Hi-Fi Stereo)

3 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Good ol HerbieSep 27, 2001
By Kenny b Natural
His rhythym section get's plenty of solo time and they ain't too, shabby either! This is a great opportunity to see upclose the remarkable talents of drummer Billy Cobham and the equally magnificent ("THE MAN of the string bass") Ron Carter. It's so good to watch Billy playing straight ahead jazz here with two of the truly greatest exponents of the art. Billy has switched his style to playing the ride cymbal with his left hand and if you think he has any problem swinging, think again!

3 of 5 found the following review helpful:

a must haveFeb 20, 2000
By A customer "mistermaxxx"
having Herbie,RON&COBHAM on one stage is a must have no matter what the style or arrangements.and this one cooks.i saw it along time ago.now remember Herbie was big on the pop charts with ROCKIT so he was doing what he usually does Music for a whole SPectrum.this is a must.

1 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Good quailty DVD, But...Jun 01, 2007
By A. Richardson "Jazz Addict"
This is technically a good quality DVD. I purchased it looking for something with Herbie playing some serious acoustic Jazz piano in trio style.

For the most part I was satisfied. My only complaint was that there seems to be a bit too much drum and base soloing and not enough evocative piano work going on... but I guess thats the nature of the beast with Herbie... He seems to seldom get into a melodic groove in a live setting or atleast not enough for me. Ron and and the Drummer are indeed great musicians so there is great musicianship on this DVD ... Just not enough piano for me. Sound and Image quality are excellent.

Oddly enough, the best part of the DVD (for me) was the Bonus track, where they play Herbie's Speak like a child, although a somewhat deconstructed version.