Tuesday 30th - Herbie Hancock

• Herbie Hancock “Watermelon Man” from Head Hunters – ‘73
• Pianist, composer, and bandleader
• b. 1940 in Chicago
• Released Oct. 13, 1973
• Genre: Jazz Fusion
• Important Facts:
  • One of the best-selling jazz-fusion records of all time
  • Combines Herbie’s jazz with synthesizers AND Sly Stone and James Brown influences
  • One of the first jazz musicians to use synthesizers and funk (and soul)
  • Began as a child prodigy playing classical music
  • Joined Miles Davis’s “Second Great Quintet” on Blue Note