Herbie Hancock - Gentle Thoughts - Danish TV, 1976 Herbie Hancock - piano, kay Wah Wah Watson - guitar Bennie Maupin - sax Paul Jackson - bass James Levi - drums | Avant Garde Music

In 1973, Herbie Hancock wanted to create something new - something lighter, funkier: something you could dance to. "There was this need to take some more of the earth and to feel a little more tethered," he's said. Taking a few musical cues from Sly &The Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and The Pointer Sisters, Herbie rounded up drummer Harvey Mason, saxophonist Bennie Maupin, percussionist Bill Summers, and bassist Paul Jackson, and he got to work. The album they made together, Head Hunters, wasn