A pivotal transitional piece for Herbie Hancock, there are some crucial factors that have kept Fat Albert Rotunda perpetually under the radar. And while Head Hunters this is not, Fat Albert Rotunda is more of a prophetic, transitional piece in the keyboardist's storied jazz-funk evolution than most realize on the surface. There's no mistaking that these arrangements are decisively more R&B than the electric, synthesizer-laced fusion sounds that would soon follow, making the record a peculiar bridge gap . . .
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