On Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

From Herbie Hancock’s work with Miles Davis to the experimental use of synthesizers, jazz historian Bob Gluck uncovers the many ingredients that formed Hancock’s grand creative experiment, the revolutionary Mwandishi Band.

Playing some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and electronic sounds, the Band shaped jazz and American popular music.

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