Inventions & Dimensions

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{{Infobox album

| name = Inventions & Dimensions

| type = Studio album

| artist = Herbie Hancock

| cover = Herbie Hancock_Inventions and Dimensions_Cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1964

| recorded = August 30, 1963

| venue =

| 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

| prev_title = My Point of View

| prev_year = 1963

| next_title = Empyrean Isles

| next_year = 1964

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Succotash cover

| type = album

| cover = Succotash (album).jpg

| border =

| alt =

| caption =

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}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = All About Jazz

| rev1Score = (favorable) {{cite web |url= http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18368 |title=Herbie Hancock | Inventions & Dimensions |first=Norman |last=Weinsteein |work=allaboutjazz.com |year=2011 |access-date=26 June 2011}}

| rev2 = Allmusic

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r140169 |title=Inventions & Dimensions - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=26 June 2011}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| page = 93

}}

|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev4score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=641}}

}}

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,[http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-bn-la-series/#bn-la-152-f Blue Note Records discography] accessed January 25, 2011 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.