# Herbie Hancock — Maiden Voyage

Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage (1965) appears on 2 of our lists — Jazz and Twice Over, highest at No. 10 in Jazz. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1965
- **Label:** Blue Note
- **On:** Jazz and Twice Over
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Artist:** [Herbie Hancock](https://waxonia.com/artist/herbie-hancock/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/herbie-hancock--maiden-voyage/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 10 in [Jazz](https://waxonia.com/genre/jazz/)

Suspended chords that never resolve and a rhythm section that floats rather than drives. The record that made harmonic ambiguity feel like weather rather than like theory.

### Picked by [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/)

Twenty-five years old and already writing the kind of tune other people would build careers on. This is the entry that makes the other two astonishing rather than merely eclectic: he was not a dabbler crossing over, he was a jazz composer at the top of the form.

## Listen

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