Fat Albert Rotunda is the eighth album

Album

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 by jazz

Jazz

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 keyboardist

Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

, released in 1969. It also was the first album that Hancock had on the Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

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 label, since leaving Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

.

About the Album

On this album Hancock changes his style radically and takes rather instrumental soul

Soul music

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 music than jazz as the basis of his compositions. Many songs also give hints of his forthcoming jazz-funk

Jazz-funk

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 style that he fully approached a few years later. A perfect example of classic songs, such as "Tell Me a Bedtime Story" (which later turned up also on the 1978 Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

 album, "Sounds...and Stuff Like That" in a more funk-esque type song) and "Jessica" (which later turned up on the 1977 Hancock album, VSOP: The Quintet

VSOP: The Quintet

V. S. O. P. The Quintet was recorded from two live performances, one at the Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, on July 16, 1977, the other at the San Diego Civic Theatre, July 18, 1977...

.) The song Jessica also was sampled by Hip-Hop producer Havoc for Mobb Deep's now classic Shook Ones Pt. II.

Track listing

All Songs composed by Herbie Hancock. (Copyright

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 Hancock Music Company-BMI

Broadcast Music Incorporated

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)

1. "Wiggle-Waggle" - (5:51)
2. "Fat Mama" - (3:49)
3. "Tell Me a Bedtime Story" - (5:01)
4. "Oh! Oh! Here He Comes" - (4:08)
5. "Jessica" - (4:13)
6. "Fat Albert Rotunda" - (6:29)
7. "Lil' Brother" - (4:26)

Personnel

• Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
   — piano
  Piano
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  , electric piano
  Electric piano
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• Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
  
   — tenor sax
  Tenor saxophone
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  , alto flute
  Alto flute
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• Garnett Brown
  Garnett Brown
  Garnett Brown is a jazz trombonist who has worked with The Crusaders, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, and others.He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and later studied film scoring and electronic music at UCLA In 1974 he won the Down Beat Reader's poll for trombonist, and...
  
   — trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Johnny Coles
  Johnny Coles
  Johnny Coles was an American jazz trumpeter.Coles spent his early career playing with R&B groups, including those of Eddie Vinson , Bull Moose Jackson , and Earl Bostic...
  
   — trumpet
  Trumpet
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  , flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
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• Buster Williams
  Buster Williams
  Charles Anthony Williams is an American jazz bassist.-Biography:Williams has gained prestige among jazz musicians as a solid supportive player. Since the early 1960s, he has made subtle swing, a precise rhythm and superb technique the landmark of his playing...
  
   — electric & acoustic bass
  Bass guitar
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• Albert "Tootie" Heath — drums
  Drum kit
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• Eric Gale
  Eric Gale
  Eric J. Gale was a leading American jazz and session guitarist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gale began playing guitar at the age of 12. Although he majored in chemistry at Niagara University, Gale was determined to pursue a musical career, and began contributing to accompaniments for such stars as...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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Production

• Arranged & Conducted By Herbie Hancock
• Produced By David Rubinson
• Recorded & Engineered By Rudy Van Gelder

External links

• "Fat Albert Rotunda" at discogs

Later Samples

• "Fat Mama"
  • "If My Homie Calls
    If My Homie Calls
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    " by 2Pac from the album 2Pacalypse Now
    2Pacalypse Now
    - Unused Tracks :* "Crooked Nigga Too" * "Tears Of A Clown" * "Scared Straight '91"...