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About This Track
“Watermelon Man” is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock, first released on his debut album, Takin’ Off (1962), in a grooving hard bop version that featured improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter Gordon.
A single of the tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a latin pop single the next year on Battle Records, where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10 on the pop charts. Santamaría’s recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).
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This track is taken from Cantaloupe Island and is not the funky version from Headhunters. It is a very simple number with only 3 chords in it, which makes for some really laid back soloing. Unusually for jazz of the time, the piano plays a funky riff which continues throughout, except of course where Herbie needs both hands for his own solo! It is a milestone piece from one of the world’s most influential jazzers.
A single of the tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts. Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a latin pop single the next year on Battle Records, where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10 on the pop charts. Santamaría’s recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the album Head Hunters (1973).
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This track is taken from Cantaloupe Island and is not the funky version from Headhunters. It is a very simple number with only 3 chords in it, which makes for some really laid back soloing. Unusually for jazz of the time, the piano plays a funky riff which continues throughout, except of course where Herbie needs both hands for his own solo! It is a milestone piece from one of the world’s most influential jazzers.
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Head Hunters
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Shouts
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TOMHINKLE57 wrote:
BEER BOTTLES CAN MAKE SOME FINE MUSIC.
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december1968 wrote:
ahh the Head Hunters album
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Aleealski wrote:
creativity in motion.
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smoothasp wrote:
Truly a classic!
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StuartHaden1 wrote:
relaxing jazz
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OneBeLoTheWorld wrote:
DOPE
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GraySage wrote:
Just layer after layer of lovely instruments
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fingerrtails wrote:
mmmmmmmm baby!
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dysondyson wrote:
This track was played at a friend's funeral this year. I was just thinking about him only moments ago and then it comes up. Telepathic last.fm!
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Thinspread wrote:
oh BABY
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allsoppy4 wrote:
fucking wicked track!
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zenstate08 wrote:
..oddly.
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musicmania1378 wrote:
cool
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ma357 wrote:
this track is trippy ;)
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prominence_la wrote:
Niiiice.
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SmokinWickerman wrote:
Don't know what all the fuss is with this song compared to hi others, heard he got charged with exploitation from amazonian's for this.
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pantrybarn wrote:
@buyable They're white
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Smoleybluesband wrote:
Great!!!
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musicmankenn wrote:
Great song to do drugs too...ha ha
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madabtthemusic wrote:
barp barp barp dap dap dap de dap
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