Herbie Hancock: Fat Albert Rotunda

[Dr. Cheese]

I am listening to this album after watching the Lakers lose to Minnesota. Herbie Hancock was prescient in making this record because if was like he made a soundtrack to a Blaxploitation movie two years before anyone made a Blaxploitation movie. Oh well, it was originally music for Bill Colby’s Fat Albert animated special, so I guess was a progenitor to that era. It is interesting hearing Buster Williams play bass guitar. I don’t think he really came to terms with the fact that he could play bass guitar with a much lighter touch. That said, he is a great bassist. I see Jerry Jemmott and Bernard Purdie were on tracks one and seven, This is a really cool album!

 

[ardgedee]

Every time I hear this it throws me off a little because it's not the electric P-Funk-ish music of the TV series' theme song.

That aside, it's pretty solid, kind of Quincy Jones-ish, you can hear the seeds of what he'd be playing with his electric bands later in the 70s.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Fat Albert Rotunda has Boogaloo vibe; it’s funky, but it it’s not Funk. I think it is importang to remember that Herbie Hancock was 28 when he recorded this album. He was a young man listening to the radio. He just happened to be young man who was already nearing legend status in Jazz.

 

[Joshua]

I am listening to this album after watching the Lakers lose to Minnesota. Herbie Hancock was prescient in making this record because if was like he made a soundtrack to a Blaxploitation movie two years before anyone made a Blaxploitation movie. Oh well, it was originally music for Bill Colby’s Fat Albert animated special, so I guess was a progenitor to that era. It is interesting hearing Buster Williams play bass guitar. I don’t think he really came to terms with the fact that he could play bass guitar with a much lighter touch. That said, he is a great bassist. I see Jerry Jemmott and Bernard Purdie were on tracks one and seven, This is a really cool album!

That was excellent, thanks for posting it. 70's era HH is my jam, but this one had slipped through the cracks and I just listened to the whole thing while working. Gotta pick this one up when I next purchase some music...

 

[darev]

I have been going hard on Herbie for a few weeks now. Thanks for that, Cheers!

 

[Bob_Ross]

I am listening to this album after watching the Lakers lose to Minnesota.

I'm just quoting this sentence because I love seeing it in print again.

 

[jerry]

I dig the whole Mwandishi era of Herbie's work.