About The Album
On this album Hancock changes his style radically and takes rather instrumental soul music than jazz as the basis of his compositions. Many songs also give hints of 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.
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