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Herbie Hancock Sells In

Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, November 1974

ALL OF A sudden you wake up one morning and find that Herbie Hancock has three albums on the charts. Herbie Hancock, one-time enfant terrible of the soul-jazz world, one-time pianist for the toughest goddam taskmaster in all of jazz (Miles Davis), one-time leader of the best (inner and outer) space-jazz band in America. Three albums on the charts. Not the soul or jazz charts. The chart charts.

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