Pianist

The hard-hitting Bay-Area based funk and jazz trio plays the infectiously grooving compositions from Herbie Hancock’s 1973 fusion landmark Head Hunters.

Hancock was at a crossroads creatively in early 1973, having released a string of masterful but commercially disappointing albums with his Mwandishi-era band. In Herbie’s words, “I began to feel that I had been spending so much time exploring the upper atmosphere of music and the more ethereal kind of far-out spacey stuff. I was beginning to feel that we (the sextet) were playing this heavy kind of music, and I was tired of everything being heavy. I wanted to play something lighter.”

Pianist

Jelani Newsome-Noble

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May 16, 2024

Nature of the Beast · San Francisco Jazz

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