Herbie Hancock Week: Wiggle Waggle (1969)

The start of a turning point in Herbie Hancock's musical style towards his 70's Jazz-funk period. The album that Wiggle Waggle is from (the 1969 release Fat Albert Rotunda) is 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.
A song that evokes a certain image in my head; one of cruising the Vegas strip, replete with black rollneck, dogtooth jacket and a 1965 Chrysler 300L Convertible to squeeze every last drop out of this tune. Vegas Cool y'all. So cool in fact, that King B sampled the start in it's entirety on Back By Dope Demand.

- FVHK5K