Nature of the Beast

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 k...