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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name = Fat Albert Rotunda
| name = Fat Albert Rotunda
| type = [[Album]]
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Herbie Hancock]]
| artist = [[Herbie Hancock]]
| cover = Fat Albert Rotunda.jpeg
| cover = Fat Albert Rotunda.jpeg
| border = yes
| border = yes
| alt =
| alt =
| released = 1969
| released = 1969
| recorded = October–December 1969
| recorded = October 4 and 16; November 26, and December 8, 1969
| studio = [[Van Gelder Studio|Van Gelder Recording Studios]], Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
| studio = [[Van Gelder Studio|Van Gelder]], [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey|Englewood Cliffs]]
| genre = [[Jazz]]-[[funk]]
| genre = [[Jazz-funk]]<ref name=AllMusic/>
| length = 33:41
| length = 33:57
| label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.-Seven Arts]]
| label = [[Warner Bros.-Seven Arts]]
| producer = [[Herbie Hancock]]
| producer = [[Herbie Hancock]]
| prev_title = [[The Prisoner (album)|The Prisoner]]
| prev_title = [[The Prisoner (album)|The Prisoner]]
| prev_year = 1969
| prev_year = 1969
| next_title = [[Mwandishi]]
| next_title = [[Mwandishi]]
| next_year = 1971
| next_year = 1971
}}
}}


{{Album ratings
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r140165 |title=Fat Albert Rotunda - Herbie Hancock &#124; AllMusic |first=Richard S. |last=Ginell |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=26 June 2011}}</ref>
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|rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''
|rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''
| rev2Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book
| rev2Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book
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|rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=641}}</ref>
|rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |author-link1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=641}}</ref>
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'''''Fat Albert Rotunda''''' is the eighth [[album]] by [[jazz]] [[keyboardist]] [[Herbie Hancock]], released in 1969. It was Hancock's first release for [[Warner Bros. Records]] after his departure from [[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'' and the two albums that followed it, ''[[Mwandishi]]'' and ''[[Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)|Crossings]]'', were reissued in one set as ''Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings'' in 1994 and as ''The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972)'' in 2014. The album features Hancock with an early version of his ‘Mwandishi’ sextet, along with multiple guest players and a full brass section.
'''''Fat Albert Rotunda''''' is the eighth [[album]] by [[jazz]] [[keyboardist]] [[Herbie Hancock]], released in 1969. It was Hancock's first release for [[Warner Bros. Records]] after his departure from [[Blue Note Records]]. The music was originally done for the TV special ''[[Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert]]'', which later inspired the ''[[Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids]]'' TV show.


''Fat Albert Rotunda'' and the two albums that followed it, ''[[Mwandishi]]'' and ''[[Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)|Crossings]]'', were reissued in one set as ''Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings'' in 1994 and as ''The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972)'' in 2014.
==About the album==

On this album Hancock changes his style radically and takes instrumental [[soul music|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]]''.
==Musicians and style==
On this album Hancock changes to a [[jazz-funk]] style with a playful 1960s [[R&B]] flavor, to fit the cartoon theme. He would not return to this style again until four years later with ''[[Head Hunters]]'' (1973).<ref name=AllMusic/>

Hancock recorded the album in two sessions, with two different groups of musicians. Five songs were played by tenor saxophonist [[Joe Henderson]] (mostly playing flutes), trombonist [[Garnett Brown]] and trumpeter [[Johnny Coles]], bassist [[Buster Williams]] and drummer [[Albert "Tootie" Heath]]. The opening and closing tracks were played by trumpeters [[Joe Newman (trumpeter)|Joe Newman]] and [[Ernie Royal]], saxophonists [[Joe Farrell]] and Art Clarke, trombonist [[Benny Powell]], guitarists [[Eric Gale]] and [[Billy Butler (guitarist)|Billy Butler]], bassist [[Jerry Jemmott]], and drummer [[Bernard Purdie]].<ref>{{cite AV media |type=LP liner notes |title=Fat Albert Rotunda |publisher=[[Warner Bros.-Seven Arts]] |date=1969 |id=ST-93172}}</ref> The various musician solos include Hancock playing on [[Fender Rhodes]] electric piano.<ref name=AllMusic/>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==


All songs composed by Herbie Hancock. ([[Copyright]] Hancock Music Company-[[Broadcast Music Incorporated|BMI]])
All songs composed by Herbie Hancock. ([[Copyright]] Hancock Music Company-[[Broadcast Music Incorporated|BMI]])
{{track listing
{{tracklist
|headline= Side A
|total_length=18:54
|title1= Wiggle-Waggle
|title1= Wiggle-Waggle
|length1= 5:51
|length1= 5:51
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|title4= Oh! Oh! Here He Comes
|title4= Oh! Oh! Here He Comes
|length4= 4:08
|length4= 4:08
}}
{{track listing
|headline= Side B
|total_length= 15:14
|title5= Jessica
|title5= Jessica
|length5= 4:13
|length5= 4:13
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==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*[[Herbie Hancock]] — [[piano]], [[electric piano]]
*[[Herbie Hancock]] — [[piano]], [[electric piano]]
*[[Joe Henderson]] — [[tenor saxophone]], [[alto flute]]
*[[Joe Henderson]] — [[tenor saxophone]], flute, [[alto flute]]
*[[Garnett Brown]] — [[trombone]]
*[[Garnett Brown]] — [[trombone]]
*[[Johnny Coles]] — [[trumpet]], [[flugelhorn]]
*[[Johnny Coles]] — [[trumpet]], [[flugelhorn]]
*[[Buster Williams]] — electric and acoustic [[bass guitar|bass]]
*[[Buster Williams]] — electric and acoustic [[bass guitar|bass]]
*[[Albert "Tootie" Heath]] — [[drum kit|drums]]
*[[Albert "Tootie" Heath]] — [[drum kit|drums]]
*George Devens - percussion
*[[Joe Newman (trumpeter)|Joe Newman]], [[Ernie Royal]] — [[trumpets]] (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Joe Newman (trumpeter)|Joe Newman]], [[Ernie Royal]] — [[trumpets]] (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Joe Farrell]] — tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Joe Farrell]] — tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
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*[[Benny Powell]] - trombone (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Benny Powell]] - trombone (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Eric Gale]], [[Billy Butler (guitarist)|Billy Butler]] — [[guitar]] (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Eric Gale]], [[Billy Butler (guitarist)|Billy Butler]] — [[guitar]] (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Jerry Jemmott]] - electric bass (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Jerry Jemmott]] – electric bass (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Bernard Purdie]] - drums (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)
*[[Bernard Purdie]] – drums (tracks 1 & 7, uncredited in original LP release)


==Production==
==Production==
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Revision as of 04:45, 21 July 2024

Fat Albert Rotunda
Studio album by
Herbie Hancock
Released1969
RecordedOctober 4 and 16; November 26, and December 8, 1969
StudioVan Gelder, Englewood Cliffs
GenreJazz-funk[1]
Length33:57
LabelWarner Bros.-Seven Arts
ProducerHerbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock chronology
The Prisoner
(1969) 		Fat Albert Rotunda
(1969) 		Mwandishi
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Fat Albert Rotunda is the eighth album by jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock, released in 1969. It was Hancock's first release for Warner Bros. Records after his departure from Blue Note Records. The music was originally done for the TV special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert, which later inspired the Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids TV show.

Fat Albert Rotunda and the two albums that followed it, Mwandishi and Crossings, were reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994 and as The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) in 2014.

Musicians and style

On this album Hancock changes to a jazz-funk style with a playful 1960s R&B flavor, to fit the cartoon theme. He would not return to this style again until four years later with Head Hunters (1973).[1]

Hancock recorded the album in two sessions, with two different groups of musicians. Five songs were played by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson (mostly playing flutes), trombonist Garnett Brown and trumpeter Johnny Coles, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath. The opening and closing tracks were played by trumpeters Joe Newman and Ernie Royal, saxophonists Joe Farrell and Art Clarke, trombonist Benny Powell, guitarists Eric Gale and Billy Butler, bassist Jerry Jemmott, and drummer Bernard Purdie.[4] The various musician solos include Hancock playing on Fender Rhodes electric piano.[1]

Track listing

All songs composed by Herbie Hancock. (Copyright Hancock Music Company-BMI)

Side A
No.TitleLength
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
Total length:18:54
Side B
No.TitleLength
5."Jessica"4:13
6."Fat Albert Rotunda"6:29
7."Lil' Brother"4:26
Total length:15:14

Personnel

Production

  • Arranged and conducted by Herbie Hancock
  • Produced by Herbie Hancock
  • Recorded and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder

References

  1. ^ a b c d Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Fat Albert Rotunda - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 93. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 641. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Fat Albert Rotunda (LP liner notes). Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. 1969. ST-93172.
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