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Tuesday 30th - Herbie Hancock

11/5/2018

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  • 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
1 Comment
Yesenia A
11/18/2018 04:47:06 pm

I really liked how it was a jazz fusion song, it was unique and I liked the instrumentals of the song. I rate this song a 7

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