Active from 1976 | ||
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Members Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard Record labels Sony Music Labels Inc., Columbia Records Albums The Quintet, Live Under the Sky, Tempest in the Colosseum Similar Miles Davis Quintet, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Wallace Roney, The Headhunters, The Great Jazz Trio | ||
V.S.O.P. was an American jazz quintet consisting of Herbie Hancock (piano, keyboards, synthesizers and vocals), Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone), Ron Carter (bass), Tony Williams (drums) and Freddie Hubbard (trumpet and flugelhorn). The line-up was identical to the Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s, with the only difference being Hubbard, rather than Davis, on trumpet.
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V.S.O.P. was essentially a live band: it produced only one studio album (Five Stars in 1979) and four live albums.
The name V.S.O.P. is taken from a grade of Cognac brandy, where it signifies aged (and implicitly high quality) stock.
Live albums
*This release was only the second CD coupled with the re-release of Live Under The Sky when it was released in the USA, so it was brought back to Japan.
Songs
One of a KindThe Quintet · 1977
ByrdlikeThe Quintet · 1977
Introduction of Players - DartsThe Quintet · 1977