Herbie Hancock

Released on the heels of the classic Headhunters album, Thrust finds Herbie and crew (Bernie Maupin, Mike Clark, Paul Jackson Jr.) continuing their funkaholic odyssey, with four lengthy tracks heavy on the bass, snapping drum breaks, and high-tech (for 1974) synthesizer experimentation. An overlooked gem from the enduring keyboard icon.

Before it hardened into fusion, jazz rock was a fertile flux, a general meltdown of musical
categories – during its brief, early-Seventies heyday, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder and Miles
Davis were grist for each other's mills. Out of this vortex came jazz keyboardist Herbie
Hancock's Sextant (1973). Taking his cue from Davis' swirling, anarchic Bitches Brew and
On the Corner, Hancock went even further into outer space. Ever the gadget fr... More >