Wiggle Waggle
Fat Mama
Tell Me A Bedtime Story
Oh! Oh! Here He Comes
Jessica
Fat Albert Rotunda
Lil' Brother
Frogtoon Music Album Info: Fat Albert Rotunda
Published: 10 Oct 2013, 19:13
"Fat Albert Rotunda" Is The Eighth Album By Jazz Keyboardist Herbie Hancock Released In 1969. It Also Was The First Album That Hancock Had On The Warner Bros. Records Label Since Leaving 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 Along With "Mwandishi" And "Crossings" Was Reissued In One Set As "Mwandishi The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings" In 1994. About The Album On This Album Hancock Changes His Style Radically And Takes Instrumental 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. A Perfect Example Of Classic Songs Such As "Tell Me A Bedtime Story" Which Later Turned Up Also On The 1978 Quincy Jones 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. 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 Hancock Music Company-BMI "Wiggle-Waggle" - 5 51 "Fat Mama" - 3 49 "Tell Me A Bedtime Story" - 5 01 "Oh! Oh! Here He Comes" - 4 08 "Jessica" - 4 13 "Fat Albert Rotunda" - 6 29 "Lil' Brother" - 4 26 Personnel Herbie Hancock — Piano Electric Piano
Joe Henderson — Tenor Sax Alto Flute
Joe Farrell - Tenor Sax Uncredited In Original LP Release Garnett Brown — Trombone
Johnny Coles — Trumpet Flugelhorn
Joe Newman - Trumpet Uncredited In Original LP Release Buster Williams — Electric & Acoustic Bass
Albert "Tootie" Heath Bernard Purdie — Drums Purdie Was Uncredited In Original LP Release Eric Gale - Guitar Uncredited In Original LP Release Production Arranged & Conducted By Herbie Hancock
Produced By Herbie Hancock
Recorded & Engineered By Rudy Van Gelder