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| Herbie's Toys |
Eventually, I'm going to do a more lengthy post regarding Herbie Hancock, as he is one of my favorite musicians ever, jazz or otherwise. In the meantime, here's a nice jam off of his 1978 album Sunlight, a highly underrated album of Herbie's. Though not as good as some of his other 70's albums like his Mwandishi Recordings (some of the best jazz-funk music ever put to vinyl), Sextant, or Headhunters, Sunlight is up there with Secrets though, and better than Thrust or Man-Child. Herbie is heading into the disco era when he recorded this jam, which has a dancey feel to it. Herbie was also experimenting with the vocoder, which put a lot of people off during this time, but personally I dig it.
That's pretty cool! Laid back funk with some robotic vocals.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Herbie's the man. I saw him play a few years back at the Zoo-Tunes Festival at The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, and he opened with "Watermelon Man"...He still has it!
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