Inventions & Dimensions

Inventions & Dimensions is the third album by Herbie Hancock, recorded on August 30, 1963, for Blue Note Records. It features Hancock with bassist Paul Chambers and percussionists Willie Bobo and Chihuahua Martinez. The album was reissued in the 1970s as Succotash, credited to Hancock and Bobo,^[5] but with the sides reversed. Inventions & Dimensions is unusual in prominently featuring Latin percussion whilst not being a Latin jazz album, rather presenting Hancock's further exploration of modal jazz and post-bop idioms.

Inventions & Dimensions
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released	1964
Recorded	August 30, 1963
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Modal jazz, post-bop, latin jazz
Length	39:49
Label	Blue Note BST 84147
Producer	Alfred Lion
Herbie Hancock chronology
My Point of View (1963) Inventions & Dimensions (1964) Empyrean Isles (1964)
Succotash cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	(favorable) [1]
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Herbie Hancock.

Side one

1. "Succotash" – 7:40
2. "Triangle" – 11:01

Side two

1. "Jack Rabbit" – 5:57
2. "Mimosa" – 8:38
3. "A Jump Ahead" – 6:33

CD reissue bonus track

6. "Mimosa" (alternate take) – 10:06

Personnel

• Herbie Hancock – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Willie Bobo – drums, timbales
• Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez – percussion (not on track 5)