Hancock, Herbie – Man Child

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New Vinyl Record – Hancock, Herbie – Man Child

Speakers Corner, Audiophile

After his early avant-garde years with Blue Note Records, Herbie Hancock achieved much success with pop music fans by gradually turning towards a mixture of Afro-American styles in which he combined soul, jazz and funk. Having composed the soundtrack to Bill Cosby’s animated children’s show “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” and released a popular family-oriented album titledFat Albert Rotunda, Hancock stated that instead of looking for jazz musicians who could play funky music, he had searched for funk musicians with a feeling for jazz. That this concept functions only too well is demonstrated in the funky albumManChild,which features such brilliant jazz musicians as Wayne Shorter, Bennie Maupin and Ernie Watts.