text: Legacy "Maiden Voyage", "The Eye of the Hurricane" and "Dolphin Dance" have become jazz standards and are featured in Hal Leonard's New Real Book vol. 2. While being interviewed for KCET in 2011, Hancock said he considered "Maiden Voyage" to be his favorite of all of the compositions he had written. During an interview on KTLA in 2020, the composer told Frank Buckley that he originally wrote the tune for a television commercial. Hancock was the pianist on another version of "Maiden Voyage" for Bobby Hutcherson's album Happenings which was recorded in February 1966. Hancock rerecorded "Maiden Voyage" and "Dolphin Dance" on his 1974 album Dedication and updated the title track on his 1988 album Perfect Machine. "Dolphin Dance" was rerecorded in 1981 for the Herbie Hancock Trio album.  Hancock has released live concert versions of "Maiden Voyage" on CoreaHancock (1979) and An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1980) (both with Chick Corea). Hancock recorded "Maiden Voyage" and "Eye of the Hurricane" with the VSOP Quintet on VSOP: Tempest in the Colosseum (1977).
  Track listing
  Personnel
  Herbie Hancock – piano
  Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
  George Coleman – tenor saxophone
  Ron Carter – bass
  Tony Williams – drums
  Cover versions
  Artists who have covered "Maiden Voyage", the title track, include:
  Bobby Hutcherson, on his 1966 album Happenings
  Brian Auger and the Trinity, on the 1970 album Befour
  Grant Green, on his 1970 live album Alive! (CD reissue only)
  Blood, Sweat, and Tears, on their 1972 album New Blood
  Kellee Patterson, on her 1973 album Maiden Voyage
  Bobby Valentín, on his 1975 live album Va a la Cárcel
  Gary Boyle, on his 1978 album The Dancer