1 + 1 (album)

Infobox Album | Name = 1 + 1
Type = Studio album
Artist = Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter


Released = 1997-01-01
Recorded =
Genre = Post-bop
Free improvisation
Length = 61:35
Label = Verve Records
Polygram Records
Producer = Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock
Reviews = *amg|id=10:3bfexquhld6e|rating|3|5
Chronology = Herbie Hancock
Last album = "The New Standard"
(1995)
This album = "1 + 1"
(1997)
Next album = "Gershwin's World"
(1998)
Misc = extra chronology 2
Artist = Wayne Shorter
Type = Studio album
Last album = "High Life"
(1995)
This album = "1 + 1"
(1997)
Next album = "Footprints Live"
(2002)

"1 + 1" is a duet album by Herbie Hancock (piano) and Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone).

Hancock and Shorter perform ten compositions on the album, including the Grammy award winning "Aung San Suu Kyi"," named after the Burmese pro-democracy activist of the same name, and "Joanna's Theme" which originally was on Hancock's original soundtrack to the film "Death Wish". It is Hancock's forty-first album.

Track listing

# "Meridianne - A Wood Sylph" (Shorter) - 6:09
# "Aung San Suu Kyi" (Shorter) - 5:45
# "Sonrisa" (Hancock) - 6:26
# "Memory Of Enchantment" (Borstlap) - 6:20
# "Visitor From Nowhere" (Hancock/Shorter) - 7:44
# "Joanna's Theme" (Hancock) - 5:22
# "Diana" (Shorter) - 5:32
# "Visitor From Somewhere" (Hancock/Shorter) - 9:04
# "Manhattan Lorelei" (Hancock/Shorter) - 7:22
# "Hale Bopp, Hip-Hop" (Hancock) - 1:51

Personnel

*Herbie Hancock - piano, producer
*Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone, producer