Released Mid June 1970 Fat Albert Rotunda
(1969) Mwandishi
(1970) Release date 8 December 1969 Label Warner Bros. Records | Length 33:41 Artist Herbie Hancock Producer Herbie Hancock | |
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Recorded May–June 1969
Recorded at Van Gelder Recording Studios in Englewood Cliffs, NJ Genres Jazz, Funk, Jazz-funk, Soul music Similar Herbie Hancock albums, Jazz albums | ||
Herbie hancock fat albert rotunda full album
Fat Albert Rotunda is the eighth album by jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock, released in 1970. It also was the first album that Hancock had on the Warner Bros. Records label, since leaving Blue Note Records. The music was originally done for the TV special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert, which later inspired Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids TV show. Fat Albert Rotunda, along with Mwandishi and Crossings was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994.
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About the Album
On this album Hancock changes his style radically and takes instrumental soul music rather than jazz as the basis of his compositions. Many songs also hint at his forthcoming jazz-funk style that he fully approached a few years later. Quincy Jones recorded "Tell Me a Bedtime Story" for his 1978 album, Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!, while Hancock revisited "Jessica" on the 1977 Hancock album VSOP: The Quintet.
Track listing
All Songs composed by Herbie Hancock. (Copyright Hancock Music Company-BMI)
Personnel
Production
Later Samples
Songs
1Wiggle Waggle5:50
2Fat Mama3:49
3Tell Me A Bedtime Story5:02