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Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda Audio CD

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Herbie Hancock Band: Herbie Hancock
Title: Fat Albert Rotunda
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Release Date: 2001-02-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Wiggle-Waggle 2: Fat Mama 3: Tell Me a Bedtime Story 4: Oh! Oh! Here He Comes 5: Jessica 6: Fat Albert Rotunda 7: Lil' Brother

Wonderful - Probably THE model for the Crusaders' Sound
In fact, I do strong suspect this was the model for the Crusaders after they dropped "Jazz" from their moniker and re-invented their sound. If you like the early Crusaders, you will love Fat Albert Rotunda - Guaranteed. The early Crusaders releases are strikingly similar to this music. My only complaint is that there isn't more of the music than is offered. You just want it to keep on going and going. It is a much better buy to pick up Herbie Hancock - The Complete Warner Bros Recordings. For a mere $2. 00 more you get this release plus Mwandishi and Crossings which are also great fusion releases.


get movin' get groovin'
This is a killer collection of "feel good use the dashboard or kitchen table as a percussion instrument" instrumentals. Hancock takes the cake with this just about unheard of CD. I could write a thank you letter to Herbie for getting me through numerous late night shifts at work with this CD. . . but I will just say that this is an audible "great day". If you're having a bad morning, drop this CD in and you'll feel better by the time track one kicks in. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to all audiences. Herbie Hancock for president.


You're being taken
Recordings" for literally pocket change more. This is great music but you can get this album domestically as part of "Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. It's worth it to check out the other two albums included in the set.


VERY,VERY FUNKY!!!!
8 % of the music on this album 'Fat Albert Rotunda' is Herbie Hancock's first dive into the world
of funk-jazz,a just blooming genre in 1969 when this was recorded and a style he wouldn't return to for another five years or so. Counting about 99. As for the jazz side of his personality only "Tell Me A Bedtime Story",with it's gentle theatrics,works in this
arena. Otherwise this album is pretty much instrumental funk,upbeat and well made but probably not quite as thrilling and
DEFINATELY not as innovative as later such efforts as 'Thrust',
"Man-Child','Secrets' and of course 'Headhunters'. But once fans of Herbie's funkier style have purchased those recordings (whitch
are essencial) this album is the next logical step to walk in.


Unbelievable jazz soul album
It is funky and beautiful. I love this album. Well arranged and expertly played. It may not be the purest jazz masterpiece, but it is perfect for what it is. It flows perfectly after Herbie's previous album, the Prisoner. I almost wish more people would try to rip this style off more often. When I first got the album I thought Fat Mama was the best song on it, but after listening, the driving but entirely laid back force of Tell Me A Bedtime Story is one of my favorite songs period. I wanted to buy a copy of this cd for everybody I knew for christmas but couldn't find a single copy in stores (aside from the complete Columbia recordings). Do yourself a favor and snatch it while you can. (Or just get the complete columbia recordings if you also like awesome space funk jazz).


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