Herbie Goes Lite-weight

NOW LOOK — I am not a purist. it doesn’t bother me that Herbie Hancock effectively quit the most testing areas of jazz for fusion, subsequently seceding into a purer funk and now a virtually ungarnished pop-soul field. Herbie was never that essential a player anyway — his greatest strength was as a sideman, a band pianist who could play a rhythm role flawlessly and who fed soloists an ideal line.